Coach says his players were called racial slurs, blames election for empowering bigots

WISH ^ | January 26, 2017, | WLFI Staff Reports

[digger48]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — The West Lafayette High School boys basketball coach is calling the president of the United States a bigot after two of his players were called the N-word.

He wrote about it in a piece published by the Lafayette Journal and Courier.

“I finally decided to do it publicly after this incident,” said Dave Wood, who is currently in his 23rd season as the Red Devils’ head coach.

Wood said two of his players were walking from Happy Hollow Elementary School to the high school on Monday when an SUV stopped nearby. He said the people inside called the players the N-word.

“My players, at that point, got out of the situation and got to one of their homes. But they were obviously shaken by the situation,” he said.

Wood said too many similar incidents have been occurring since the election. He gave strong words in his op-editorial piece to describe why he believes this is the case.

“I believe that black people felt empowered when we elected Barack Obama as president,” Wood said. “And I believe that we have elected a white, bigoted person as president. I believe that people who are white and bigoted feel empowered as well.”

Wood said since the op-ed was published late Wednesday morning, he’s had several people tell him they are proud of him. But he knows his words won’t be well-received by everyone.

“Did I know … that there would be people who disagree with me? Of course I did. If this creates some dialogue that maybe allows us to reach a common ground, then it’s been a good thing,” he said.

WLFI reached out to West Lafayette Community School Corporation Superintendent Rocky Killion for comment on the piece.

“I support my staff, as well as all citizens, to appropriately voice their opinion as allowed by the First Amendment,” Killion said.

[harpu]

I’d love to see Coach Knight or VP Pence find out what’s REALLY behind this clown’s (the coach) real accusation.

[9YearLurker]

Can you imagine if Obama were held responsible for every black on white schoolboy insult, let alone actual crime?

[BlueLancer]

Strange ... nowhere in the article does it say that the people in the SUV were white. Using the normal rule of thumb, when the MSM doesn’t describe the race of the individuals committing a bad act, that usually means that it’s one of the “protected” parts of society.

[Doogle]

I thought Hilda used the “n” word......

[newnhdad]

there is so much projection and conjecture in this attack piece it’s unreadable.

[Bryanw92]

>>“I believe that black people felt empowered when we elected Barack Obama as president,” Wood said. “And I believe that we have elected a white, bigoted person as president. I believe that people who are white and bigoted feel empowered as well.”

so black and empowered is good and white and empowered is bad. Got it.

Don’t care, but I got it.

If you want to have fun with sexist Prog women, racist Prog blacks, and weak Pajama Boys, let them get to ranting about what they think Trump will be and then smile and say, “ I sure hope so”. Do the little mic drop thing and just walk away. When they demand a “dialogue” just say, “sorry we don’t have to do that anymore. We won.”

[Nailbiter]

Your cat is a ventriloquist and is messing with you :)

[MustKnowHistory]

Hey, I live in West Lafayette. During the 2012 election I stood beside a polling place holding a sign fir the republican senate candidate. Numerous people driving by, shouted obscenities at me. I blamed Obama.

[FreedomPoster]

There are many good reasons to think that.

http://www.fakehatecrimes.org

[FoxInSocks]

“I support my staff, as well as all citizens, to appropriately voice their opinion as allowed by the First Amendment,” Killion said.

That's what the people in the SUV were doing; what's the big deal?

[Fresh Wind]

He said the people inside called the players the N-word.

That sort of thing never happened before Trump was elected. And in this case, it probably never happened at all.

[jdsteel]

“Whoever yelled from the car was probably a college student being stupid and rude, which is unfortunately what college students do sometimes.”

IMHO: Whoever yelled from the car was probably a liberal college student trying to “raise awareness” (aka trying to make Trump voters look like bigots).

[Anti-Bubba182]

"...Wood said two of his players were walking from Happy Hollow Elementary School to the high school on Monday when an SUV stopped nearby. He said the people inside called the players the N-word..."

So two kid get called N=words in Smalltown USA and it's Trumps' fault? Race pimp reasoning 101.

[ScottinVA]

“Wood said two of his players were walking from Happy Hollow Elementary School to the high school on Monday when an SUV stopped nearby. He said the people inside called the players the N-word.”

Ergo, Trump is a bigot. Or something.

[Mark17]

Thanks for that link. I bookmarked it, for later reading.

[a fool in paradise]

if you take all the insult/profanity/trigger words out of rap you would have pretty much of a band solo

You wouldn't have a band solo, you'd be left with the loop of the hook from some hit song you might remember from the 70s or 80s or 90s.

[Maverick68]

Before that, they were called $$$ga by other black people....get over it and let us know when you want that “magical” word to REALLY go away and whitey will help.

[Gamecock]

Red Devils?

As a 1/32 Native American I am insulted. Call the press.

[a fool in paradise]

Clearly if we ban SUVs, this sort of thing could no longer happen.

[papertyger]

If this creates some dialogue that maybe allows us to reach a common ground, then it’s been a good thing,” he said.

I can guaran-damn-tee this coach does NOT want any part of the "dialogue" it would take to reach "common ground."