Posted on 09/29/2021 2:15:07 PM PDT by Mr.Unique
The one thing guaranteed when one uses race as a means to power is absurdity. The actual truth is ignored for the optics that can be spun to serve those pursuing power. And the absurdity arises from the simple fact that many folks see the actual truth plainly but choose to ignore it for the power that the optics promise.
Those were my thoughts as I drove over the bridge from San Diego to Coronado on a sunny and humid August day. The small town, home to the Navy SEALs, had made news this past June during the Division 4-A regional championship when the Coronado High School basketball team was condemned for throwing tortillas at Orange Glen, a mostly Hispanic high school. Like many others, I cringed at the national media reports on this latest proof of all-American racism.
Less than 12 hours after the game, the Coronado Unified School District’s board blasted "racism, classism, and colorism which fueled the actions of the perpetrators." The California Interscholastic Federation soon stripped the championship from the high school, imposed sanctions on all of its sports programs (yes, even women’s lacrosse) and made racial sensitivity training one of the conditions for redemption.
It was not until nearly two months later that I learned what had been reported was wildly inaccurate. Programs like the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) No Place for Hate had been quick to brand the teenagers on the team as racist but it was a 40-year-old man named Luke Serna that had brought the tortillas. He has been described by the townspeople as a Coronado alum who had not been to a game all year, a latino, a president of a local union and a political activist with ties to the island’s left-wing groups that advocate for critical race theory (CRT).
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Seems a latino activist brought the tortillas to the game.
As has oft been noted, the demand for racism far exceeds the supply.
Throwing tortillas is not a new phenomenon.
I recall some 30 years ago this was practiced (and stopped) at games here in San Antonio.
And yet....
When Mexicans at American high school football games can openly fly the Mexican Flag and disrespect the US Flag and the Pledge of Allegiance - why that’s all fine and dandy.
Somebody better tell this restaurant that they are racist xenophobes.
https://www.flyingtortillasantafe.com/
What if he had thrown Donuts?
The chow hall at the NavAmphib Base at Coronado was like eating in a top notch restaurant when I was there in 1968. The dinner rolls were heavenly and you could cut the roast beef with your fork. Mmmmmm.....
Completely off topic.
I would not be as cautious as the author. It seems crystal clear that a leftie Hispanic activist brought those tortillas to the game hoping to create an incident, succeeded, and now his fellow travelers are perpetrating his hoax.
It's nice to have media superiority.
I get that this is just more made up outrage and anti-white BS but what I don’t get is even if it had turned out to be true that there were tortilla thrown by whites. So what? This hypersensitivity used to manipulate and whites that run and hide from ‘racism’ is destroying this nation.
Stand up!
i would highly encourage those that have to make up racism in the “most racist country in the world”, to leave. Just go if it’s so bad here.
“What if he had thrown Donuts?”
Ah, well, that is a whole different ball game. That would obviously be police-hatred! ;-)
Not racist.
I once, as a teen, got in trouble for throwing a burrito at a terrible driver. We both were white though.
Since I lived 65 years in San Diego and was born in Coronado, and frequented there a lot, I can say that Coronado school kids do have a better than you attitude. My daughter’s very small church school beat Coronado’s Debate team. They showed up in pajamas, showing no respect for the occasion.
if I were the basketball team parents, I’d file a humongous lawsuit against this dude for civil rights violations of the team
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