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Black high school baseball player says fans yelled 'You should have been George Floyd' and 'Get back to the fields'
CNN ^ | 7/3/20 | Alisha Ebrahimji

Posted on 07/05/2020 12:23:57 PM PDT by madprof98

(CNN)Competitive banter on the field during baseball games is a norm between teams and typically stretches into the bleachers among fans, but one school district in Iowa is saying comments made during a high school game crossed the line.

A Black player for Charles City High School heard "several bigoted comments yelled from the crowd" during a game played at Waverly-Shell Rock High on June 27, according to an online statement from the Charles City Community School district and information from the school district communications director.

The school district didn't name the player. Jeremiah Chapman, who says he's the only Black player on the Charles City High team, told CNN that fans yelled "You should have been George Floyd" and "Get back to the fields."

Chapman said he was even called "Colin" at one point, which he believes was a reference to Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback widely known for kneeling during the National Anthem in an effort to protest police brutality.

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To: madprof98

“...How could this be? Why didn’t they speak up?...”

Why???

I’ll tell you why - Because it’s probably just more made-up bullsh*t by another little little drama queen who didn’t get enough attention from daddy.


21 posted on 07/05/2020 12:41:40 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: madprof98

Assuming it true.

One person in one small town somewhere in the U.S. yelling bad taste taunts based on recent current events is national news.

Clearly systemic racism is systemic and ubiquitous. This proves it.


22 posted on 07/05/2020 12:43:11 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yeah where is all the cell phone video that is so prevalent today?
Hard to believe no one has this recorded.


23 posted on 07/05/2020 12:43:36 PM PDT by funfan
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To: madprof98

The comments here about what is, fundamentally, a meaningless event, tell us a lot about what is going on now.


24 posted on 07/05/2020 12:43:54 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: madprof98

Because it didn’t happen?


25 posted on 07/05/2020 12:44:20 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: madprof98
Nobody spoke up because nobody, besides the player, is the only one who heard those words, kind of like Black Caucus member Cleaver who clearly remembers being spat upon by Tea Party protesters (a lot like Bubba Wallace looking at a garage pull and insisting it was a noose that no one beside himself saw!)

Hysterical blacks have become so delusional they see and hear imaginary stuff.

Many became so used to having things bestowed upon them, now that they are expected to perform and shazam, the pressure is clearly too much so they must invent imaginary words, deeds and actions!

Many of us are simply too tired and exhausted at handing them like fragile glass. We’re simply no longer willing to do it or willing to take them or the word “racist” seriously!

26 posted on 07/05/2020 12:45:51 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: madprof98

I don’t believe it.


27 posted on 07/05/2020 12:46:17 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: madprof98

No way this happened. At least one fan (more like 99%) would rat out the heckler.

I’ve attended rural youth Baseball games for 15 years - never once heard racist heckles.

But ONE QUESTION - Did this kid kneel for the Anthem?


28 posted on 07/05/2020 12:46:51 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: madprof98

Probably his parents were yelling.


29 posted on 07/05/2020 12:47:04 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: madprof98

They then displayed a noose, spray-painted “go home ni***r” on his garage door, and kidnapped him.

Yeah, I’ve heard this story before...


30 posted on 07/05/2020 12:47:24 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: madprof98

I used to try to assume the best of most people (obviously dangerous individuals of any color excepted).

But BLM has convinced me never to trust any black person. The probability of them turning on a dime to assault or kill me has become too high. So I’ll cross the street, carry, and leave. Blacks have finally convinced me they are too risky as a group.

Sadly, a great number of them don’t deserve this treatment. But I can’t tell the difference in the split second that determines whether I live.


31 posted on 07/05/2020 12:49:01 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (BIDEN for MEMORY CARE 2019!)
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CNN fomenting racial discord

CNN is ATT

Antifa Telephone & Telegraph

GTH, ATT — racial agitator


32 posted on 07/05/2020 12:49:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: madprof98
So, this teenager is a player on a baseball team.

There are at least a dozen more players on the team. A few of them at least are his friends.

So, why aren’t there any witnesses to this racist harassment?

Knowing the current zero tolerance mentality in schools these days, why wasn’t the culprit immediately served with an expulsion order.

Considering the atmosphere of intolerance in public schools today this story just doesn’t ring true.

33 posted on 07/05/2020 12:49:27 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: madprof98

AM NOT buying this report. Made up, probably staged if it really did happen just to make a story.


34 posted on 07/05/2020 12:49:34 PM PDT by rovenstinez (.)
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To: zerosix
Many of us are simply too tired and exhausted at handing them like fragile glass.

Exactly so. And #BLM will set blacks back another 20 years. #BLM simply screams louder than ever to enforce the entitlement / victimhood narrative, and turn up the rage when blacks fail. Regardless of what harm it does to black communities, families and society, #BLM is designed to keep them on the Democrat plantation.

35 posted on 07/05/2020 12:50:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: JudgemAll

> the technology is out there to put your head on any CCTV camera observing crime and make it very hard or impossible to deternine if doctored or not <

There’s a clever video showing actor Steve Buscemi’s ugly face placed on Jennifer Lawrence’s beautiful body. It is a quite remarkable - and unsettling - fake. If you haven’t seen the video, it’s really worth a look. Here it is.

https://youtu.be/iHv6Q9ychnA


36 posted on 07/05/2020 12:51:49 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
"No video with all those phones around?"

I agree. Fake news imo.

37 posted on 07/05/2020 12:51:51 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: madprof98

What’s the kid’s batting average? If he’s batting below 200, perhaps it was a little career advice from the stands and he should consider a job on a farm or ranch because he’s not going to be going to the big show any time soon.


38 posted on 07/05/2020 12:52:50 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: madprof98

Call me very very skeptical. Fans at a baseball game - a high school baseball game - did this? In Iowa?! No.


39 posted on 07/05/2020 12:56:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: madprof98

Oh, please. In my youth we smack talked so bad that today’s kids would go crying to their mommies.

In little league, we used to chant to black hitters who were friends of ours, “nigga...nigga...nigga...nigga...nigga...nigga...SWING!” Blacks and white would chant that. For the white kids we’d chant, “Honkey...Honkey...Honkey...Honkey...Honkey...Hit it!”

We were all the best of friend and never once thought of hating anyone.


40 posted on 07/05/2020 12:58:43 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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