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Univ. of Florida To End ‘Gator Bait’ Chant And Mandate Racism Training For Students
LaCorte News ^ | 6/19/2020 | Penka Arsova

Posted on 06/19/2020 10:19:27 AM PDT by Zenyatta

The University of Florida announced Thursday that it’s putting an end to the “Gator Bait” chant at sporting events, citing the racist history behind the phrase.

The change was announced by the University of Florida President Kent Fuchs who said the phrase invokes “historic racist imagery,” while acknowledging that there’s no evidence linking the chant to racism. The chant involves fans shouting “gator bait” and mimicking the chomping jaws of an alligator with their arms, accompanied by music.

“While I know of no evidence of racism associated with our ‘Gator Bait’ cheer at [University of Florida] sporting events, there is horrific historic racist imagery associated with the phrase,” Fuchs said.

(Excerpt) Read more at lacortenews.com ...


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To: FewsOrange
Disturbing indeed, but that's Panama. I'm pretty sure this is pure coincidence, and the "Gator bait" chant just means "we are the gators and our opponents are just bait." I suppose they could change their name to the Sharks and chant "Shark chum! Shark chum!"

But then someone would go hunting for some evidence that someone, some time in the last 300 years, somewhere in the world, said "Shark chum" within 50 ft of a black person, and...

21 posted on 06/19/2020 10:33:15 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Jim Robinson

Something I have long wondered. What does the V on the back of their helmets stand for?


22 posted on 06/19/2020 10:33:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Zenyatta

College sports gets woke, goes broke.


23 posted on 06/19/2020 10:34:27 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Zenyatta

in this ‘racism training’ will they be taught that the only deadly racists right now are the black folks looting, burning, assaulting and murdering white folks? Will they learn that roving gangs of white folks attacking black folks are non existent?

No? Then they will be brainwashed- not taught about racism

Wil lthey learn the following?

Dr. Voddie Baucham, Dean of Theology at African Christian University and former pastor from California,

“I’m also an American who, as an expat in a foreign country, I’ve been to dozens of countries in the world. And there are two things I know: One, black people in America are the freest and most prosperous black people in the world. Period. Bar none,” he asserted.

... the reputation that black people have, that somehow we are weak and impotent, and that we can’t do or be anything unless white people do it for us. Which, by the way, is kind of racist.”


24 posted on 06/19/2020 10:35:21 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: brownsfan
Ok, that’s disturbing.

I enlarged it. It says "Panama Canal."

25 posted on 06/19/2020 10:35:31 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Zenyatta

Then I saw this:

University of Florida Admits Beloved ‘Gator Bait’ Cheer Isn’t Racist, Cancels It Because of Racism Anyway

https://www.westernjournal.com/university-florida-admits-beloved-gator-bait-cheer-isnt-racist-cancels-racism-anyway/

No doubt the fans will adhere to the new rules. NOT!


26 posted on 06/19/2020 10:36:09 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Sequoyah101

My son’s university mandated classes in “sexual harassment awareness” years ago. He said it was pointless. The true gentlemen didn’t need the class, and the clods who treat women as sex objects reacted with “stupid b**ches made us take some dumb class about broads”.


27 posted on 06/19/2020 10:38:19 AM PDT by Calvin Cooledge
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To: Zenyatta

I’m so grateful that I finished college. Things were bad enough when I was a college student.


28 posted on 06/19/2020 10:38:30 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Zenyatta

Seeing how most racism is black on white, are the black students going to take an anti-racism class, too?


29 posted on 06/19/2020 10:39:10 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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To: BenLurkin

Had to look it up: “V” for valley, ie, San Joaquin Valley.

https://gobulldogs.com/news/2001/8/28/The_Meaning_of_the_V.aspx


30 posted on 06/19/2020 10:41:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: FewsOrange

Gators don’t worry about the color of your skin.


31 posted on 06/19/2020 10:42:44 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: BenLurkin

This must be like the racist origins of LSU’s “neck” chant.

STBLMDB!


32 posted on 06/19/2020 10:44:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Zenyatta
Uh Oh, just wait until they discover UF had this helmet for one game in 1962.


33 posted on 06/19/2020 10:46:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Zenyatta

Racism training:

1) Call all white people in the audience evil and point at the ones in the audience.
2) Repeat 1)


34 posted on 06/19/2020 10:46:47 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: A_perfect_lady

And that chant was started by Lawrence Wright, who is black, and he does not agree with the ban.

https://www.news-press.com/story/sports/college/football/2020/06/19/lawrence-wright-florida-gator-bait-chant-ban/3222245001/


35 posted on 06/19/2020 10:48:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FewsOrange

wow.....that’s pretty bad.....


36 posted on 06/19/2020 10:49:44 AM PDT by cherry
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To: FewsOrange

Because we know that Alligators only eat black people. /s


37 posted on 06/19/2020 10:51:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Zenyatta

How about civics classes and how government works in this country and why we’ve fought for these liberties?

Because these stupid idiots in the colleges don’t seem to get it


38 posted on 06/19/2020 10:51:49 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: dfwgator

Well. Whoever Lawrence is, if he wasn’t a conservative before, I hope this pushes him over to “the dark side.”


39 posted on 06/19/2020 10:52:15 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Here he is at the 1996 Championship Rally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNR2huVcJYw


40 posted on 06/19/2020 10:53:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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