Posted on 08/25/2023 5:10:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Georgia college’s white baseball manager is under fire after allegedly telling a black player he couldn’t play on the team because his hair was too long and didn’t conform to the rules set by the coach.
Valdosta State University’s head baseball coach Greg Guilliams was secretly recorded by former player Asher Akridge during a meeting in the coach’s office, where Akridge questioned Guilliams’ reasoning for kicking him off the team based on his hair length.
In a video posted to TikTok by Akridge with the caption “Valdosta State University 2023 or 1945,” a player tells the coach he was always respectful and always complied with the strict hair policy.
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I should have added the Reeds lived like 3 miles from the gym….
Will the the kid get his hair stuck on fencing or so etching and sue?
Cut them nappies, bitch boi!
Exactly. The post should be called out for turning it into a racial issue!
Not very respectful to plan, set up, and secretly record a conversation in order to go public on the Internet because you don't like the grooming standards.
So what?
Suck it up buttercup
Exactly. His team, his rules.. I assume he has rules about hair length for all races… I question highly whether his kid has a father in his life and if he does if his father had one.
I am hard pressed to believe any person whining like this has a father, particularly one that had one themselves.
If the coach has no rules for other races and African Americans have one then you have an issue, but otherwise stop whining you little kitty cat and play or quit the team.
Yep. We had a teacher/basketball coach in high school who was great and respected as both. He had a crew cut. Very tough. You want to play basketball for me? Time for a buzz cut. I didn’t play, but the guys who did, and got the cut, were respected for it. They won a lot, too. Looking back, a psychological edge over the competition.
This is a "Team Sport". The Coach wanted his team to look like a "Team".
Not like the "New Cast" of "Snow White". For all you "Gens", it was the norm for school athletes, to get a "buzz" hair cut.
Like "Animal Farm", some "Team" players, are More Equal than others.
If the player were White or Asian, no worries.
I completed an entire career with grooming standards being strictly enforced. Suck it up, Buttercup. Wendys is hiring, but they have grooming standards too.
EC
Cue the old give me hair song.
I would think that the player just made himself into a hot potato that no one will want on his team. He is a proven, spoiled trouble maker because he has an immature attitude about conforming to the rules of his employer/coach, whatever. Why can’t he just cut his hair? It will grow back. Is his hair style more important than his potential career. Geesh, people are so stupid.
Once again the media is very quick to mention race when it fits their narrative.
The NY Post apparently uses claims of racism over silly things to stir up emotions to increase sales.
The NY Post just ran an article about a black murderer potentially being freed because the police tried to locate the murderer by matching his DNA, left at the scene, with a black male DNA collection. Though that is NOT how the murderer was caught, and the NYP KNEW this was bogus, they pretended this claim of racism somehow mattered. BS.
The pattern seems to be to stir up outrage with stories that don’t really add up to anything. An obscure sports coach set grooming standards; this snowflake didn’t comply, thus hurting the team. Oh, the humanity.
Covering this crap just encourages morons to feel racist pain whenever they don’t get their way with ice cream on top. Pathetic.
Like it or don’t the public assumes that a person’s outside appearance reflects their inside character, and to a major extent they are absolutely correct. Change the outside and the inside will follow.
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Agree. How you present yourself to the world matters.
Sounds like he transferred to Valdosta. Not sure how transfers work, but he may not be able to transfer again for a while?
walton shows up to first day of practice at UCLA with long hair.
Wooden: Your hair is too long.
Walton: That’s my right (paraphrase)
Wooden (story told by Walton) We’re gonna miss you.
He cut his hair.
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"Hair" - The COWSILLS 🌸 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1rV1xC2c1o
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