Posted on 10/23/2014 1:10:47 PM PDT by Steelfish
OCTOBER 22, 2014 Football Coach Fired Because Eating Watermelon Is Racist Parents from other schools felt smashing a watermelon and eating it after games was inappropriate. By Katherine Timpf
A winning high-school football coach was fired after the team’s tradition of eating watermelon after games was deemed “inappropriate” and “racist.”
Bud Walpole had been coaching Academic Magnet Raptors football team, and was in the middle of a very successful season, according to CBS Charlotte.
A current Raptors player said the tradition began when players bought watermelons from a man who had been selling them on their route to the game. If they won the game, the team decided, they would eat the watermelon. After they did win, they smashed the watermelon on the ground and then ate it. (The team had to smash their victory fruit because they, understandably, did not have a knife on the sidelines.)
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Quick, somebody give Will Muschamp a watermelon.
When are we going to tell the idiots who come up with this nonsense to go pound sand?
WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS STOP!!!!!!!!
(Can you tell that I love watermelon from my strong reaction to this story? Because I do, although it’s more a summer thing, but they’re in Florida, right?)
This Country better harden the f up
Our Grandfathers and Great Grandfathers must weep when they see what a weak and spineless people we have become.
Dan Mullen, stay away from the watermelon
“If they won the game, the team decided, they would eat the watermelon.”
looks like the whole team was racists.
The coach had a chance to teach the team a lesson, don’t eat racist food, instead he was weak and went for it. Shame, shame.
I am changing my resume to state that I don’t eat watermelon or fried chicken. I hope they don’t do a background check.
What is racist about eating a watermelon? Can’t wait to hear this one.
So one parent from outside the school district gets to fire a coach because the choose to take offense?
Liberals hopefully can explain to us, what is racist about eating a watermelon. I’m sure it has something to do with liberal views or political correctness.
Have the ream attend the next board meeting with the parents and let the team tell them all to go to hell. Then have the team tell the board that any altering of grades will result in a class action lawsuit.
Repeat every following meeting.
then campaign to fire the board.
Parents from other schools? Sounds like spite to me. Who are these parents? Anonymous accusations of racial heresy sounds like the Inquisition.
Florida grows a lot of watermelon. Maybe the state should be boycotted. /s
Yes, I like water melon too. I guess we must be racists. F the MOFOs.
yer’ not getting off that easy...Hoke is probably in the running to replace him...
It’s simply about keeping the sores of past racism continually rubbed raw.
That was a close one. It would have been even more racist if they had eaten it inside the Denver’s Union station.
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