A Texas high school apologized for some of its students chanting “USA! USA!” after its basketball team beat a rival school in a state playoff game in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday.
Some saw it as a racist insult since the players from the victorious Alamo Heights High School team are mostly white while those from Edison High roster are predominantly Hispanic, according to MSNBC.com. Other national media outlets such as The Huffington Post have have also picked up the story.
Of course they have, especially the PuffHost. Why any American citizen would take offense at a “USA! USA!” chant is beyond me. Some of the chanters were Hispanic.
In any case, along with arbitrary shifts in the rules, another liberal tactic emerges from this story: The apology not accepted.
Alamo Heights Superintendent Kevin Brown apologized and said students involved in the chanting won’t be allowed to attend the school’s semifinal game Thursday. Some Heights students involved are Hispanic, Brown added.
The apology was not good enough for Gil Garza of the San Antonio Independent School District who filed a complaint with the governing body for Texas public schools on Tuesday, according to paper.
That governing body is the University Interscholastic League, or UIL, which has massive powers over school competitions of all kinds, athletic and academic, across the state. When I was a kid in Texas schools, the UIL was widely feared by teachers and coaches. It still is. The UIL could pound the school’s programs into dust if it feels like it. Invoking the UIL amounts to going nuclear, when an apology has already been offered and the coach halted the chant immediately. One would not be out of line to suspect that the UIL tactic is Mr. Garza’s way of exacting revenge on the other school, just for defeating his.
That’s also what liberals have done in the Rush Limbaugh case: He apologized, liberals rejected that apology, and have gone after his stations and sponsors to silence him, not because his offense deserves that, but because he effectively defeats liberals. The UIL should not allow itself to become a pawn.
Monica Crowley, on Fox earlier, said that this story is evidence of political correctness run amok. She may be on to something.
Let’s be honest. It’s not “political correctness run amok” — it’s tyranny stretching its muscles.
It certainly is if the majority of the Hispanic school students are actually not here legally.
Not only can we not fight illegal immigration, we cannot even comment on it.
It’s okay. A lot of us aren’t going to be accepting apologies either.
It is also the unspoken fear that Hispanic students will run riot and hurt somebody. If I were Hispanic, I’d be insulted.
I might be missing something here but from what I can see Alamo Heights ISD has about 5000 students versus SAISD’s 55000 students. “Geographically, AHISD is one of the smallest school districts in the state, covering only 9.4 square miles. The district serves students from the communities of Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Olmos Park, and a portion of North San Antonio.” That means that you’re demographics get skewed by very minimal changes, and it took quite a bit of digging, but AHISD is one of the preferred school districts for relocating military families.
I’m having a tougher time locating, much less digging through to locate SAISD’s demographic data and profiles.
Racism in basketball is still a problem. At the college level, diversity is key. But, if you watch the NCAA tournament that starts very shortly, you can see that diversity at the college level still has a long way to go. In some games, I know it’s hard to believe, you may see two or three white players on the court at the same time. Most schools are diversity compliant and most games will have ten black players on the court at all times.
I know I’m not supposed to say this, but here goes anyway–in reply to the above, I can only say that we have a long way to go. We won’t truly have a diverse society until none of those white kids are on the court.
First of all, I will say that I’m a big fan of Pajamas Media and PJTV in particular, and I’m a supporter and I will continue to be a supporter.
But given the facts that I can glean from the news stories on this incident, our side beating the drum on this one is misguided.
I’m siding with the coach. Context is everything. If there’s context I’m missing I may change my mind. But until then, it was bad decorum on the students’ part, and the teachers were right to enforce good decorum at an official school event.
Im inclined to agree most with #6. But TexEd nailed it: what is the big deal over this if Edison’s team still has lots of hood black guys and Alamo Heights’s has a lot of both the legitimate and illigitimate scions of Spurs players, former players and coaches.
There is a backstory that Laura Ingraham discussed this morning. Seems that there is no small amount of bad blood between the two high schools. Yeah, it’s Texas. It happens. Edison students think it is funny to chant “Alamo Whites” during games. They reportedly did some of that during the game. Alamo Heights students respond on occasion, this time with “USA! USA! USA!” after beating Edison for a basketball championship. Nothing like shoving the collective noses of racial bullies into a good smoking bowl of STFU on occasion. The PC crowd are falling all over themselves beating up on Alamo Heights, which is a mistake.
Message to Edison: Don’t dish it out unless you can take some return fire. Otherwise, grow up. Cheers -
I’d have more respect for both parties (and both parties in Morgan Hill) if they just settled it like Jets and Sharks. Thats the true cost of the Nanny State.
Wait, Whites and Hispanics dominating high school basketball teams? Where are the African-Americans in all this?
I was one of the two token white players on my high school team. I was practice fodder when they needed someone to portray the big slow white “goon” of our upcoming opponents. I used to hear every “whitey”, “cracker”, and “Nazi” comment available, most of which are not fit to print.
So somehow “Alamo Whites” and “U.S.A.” are offensive? What sheltered lives these little children must live. Poor dears, how will they ever handle the real world?
Its imprudent to wear a US flagged shirt to school in California.
Its bad manners to shout “USA” in Texas.
The notion that we’re all Americans, and should salute the flag, learn US histoory etc used to be unremarkable. The snobs derided it but it has kept this country together and now we’re at risk of losing it. Not good.
Having crowds loudly chanting anything at a high school event is a bit out of line. They’re just kids after all.
But having said that, I’ve been at lots of professional sporting events (mostly boxing) in the US where there were lots of Hispanics in the crowd acting quite aggressive and chanting Meh-hee-co, Meh-hee-co. Recall the abuse the US national team was subjected to by Mexican fans after the World Cup soccer qualifier here in the US:
http://aol.sportingnews.com/soccer/story/2011-06-27/sorry-mexico-great-win-but-fans-were-embarrassment