Posted on 12/28/2014 8:33:20 AM PST by rey
A high school basketball tournament set to begin Monday in Fort Bragg has been thrust into the national discussion over police killings of unarmed black men, after Mendocino High’s girls team was disinvited because its players refused to stop wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “I Can’t Breathe” during warmups.
The debate has pitted socially progressive high school students from Mendocino against a blue-collar Fort Bragg community still mourning the killing of Ricky Del Fiorintino, a Mendocino County sheriff’s deputy and popular wrestling coach at Fort Bragg High who was gunned down in March by an Oregon fugitive.
The controversy over the T-shirts, which bear the last words of Eric Garner, the New York man who died after a police officer put him in a chokehold, has amplified a fierce athletic rivalry between the coastal towns. With invective circulating on social media such as Facebook, the Fort Bragg Unified School District decided to invite a girls team from Round Valley in place of the Mendocino girls team. The Cardinals’ boys team will still take part in Monday’s Vern Piver Holiday Classic Tournament, minus one player who preferred to continue protesting.
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Great to see some of our school officials get it. These shirts are an affirmation that the wearers are at war with America whether they are too stupid to realize that or not.
I was reading the comments at the source and I am truly worried about the majority of the uneducated and silly kids who are spreading rumors. Why? Because their parents are twice as stupid.
LOL. Sounds like those rich honky white girls need to start practicing what they preach. Hypocrites make me sick.
Id like to find one that reads, “ I Cant Breath,GOOD!”
It used to be that a guest would have manners.
The “I can’t breathe” quote is from someone who died at the hands of DeBlasio sending out police to enforce an unjust tax. Do these young fools with their aging hippie enablers even know that?
Nice to see some backlash against the lies.
Huh, I thought his last words were "order more pizza".....
indeed... you described Mendocino to a T... someday i hope to sell my artwork in places like Mendocino...
Spellcheck is usually not able to discern if you use the wrong word. The correct spelling of the word you intended ends with an "e".
Mendocino? You mean the place where everyone grows dope?
It’s a stoner’s dream town.
Thought control commissars are what I like to use to describe these people.
Undocumented shoppers aka looters ......
I agree with you Grania, the police shouldn’t be taking people down for tax reasons, well I might make an exception for millionaire Democrat senators and Congressmen...........
“She had that Mendocino beano,by where some bugs had made it red.
Or,”you’re standing on my chest.”
Mendocino—the town of many bed and breakfasts, art shops and restaurants... where Murder She Wrote was sometimes filmed... yes—kind of hippie dippy... towns like that are good places for selling arts and crafts... Cambria is another place... Twain Harte... Capitola—my favorite place...
socially regressive high school students
Sir Douglas Quintet is back
We’d like to thank all our beautiful friends all over the country
And all the beautiful vibrations
We love you
Teeny bopper, My teenage lover
I caught your waves last night
It set my mind a wond’ rin’
You’re such a groove, please don’t move
Please stay in my love house by the river
Fast talkin’ guys with strange red eyes
Have put things in your head
It set my mind a wond’ rin’
I love you so, please don’t go
Please stay here with me in Mendocino
Mendocino, Mendocino
Where life’s such a groove
You blow your mind in the morning
We used to walk through the park
Make love along the way in Mendocino
Like I told you
Can you, dig it?
If you want to groove I’ll be glad to have you
I Love you so
Please don’t go
Please stay here with me in Mendocino
That is why Eldrick "Tiger" Woods has never expressed his personal political views that openly, especially since the golfing world really frowns on professional players taking political stances.
In short, you have to be really careful making political statements in the sporting world, especially when sponsors make disapprove.
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