Members of the Utah women’s basketball team were subjected to racism near their hotel in Idaho last week when a pickup truck with a Confederate flag drove near them and the driver began using offensive language, including the N-word, authorities said Tuesday. The team was left shaken and wound up moving to a different hotel the next day.
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Tony Stewart, an official with the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, said at a news conference the Utes were walking from the hotel to a restaurant when the truck drove up and the driver began using racist language. After the team left the restaurant, the same driver returned “reinforced by others,” Stewart said, and they revved their engines and again yelled at the players.
People are surprised by this? Coeur d’Alene, and the Idaho panhandle, are known for being a hotbed of racists, white militias and other groupds of hateful nutjobs. All it takes is a whiff of a protest for civil rights and the cranks come out by the hundreds with their guns.
Nobody who is nonwhite, Jewish or non-straight who has an ounce of sense would even think of going there. Somebody at Utah University or the NCAA suffered a major brain fart if they thought it would be a good idea to house Black basketball players in that town.
One of many places on the map of USA colored red and marked
ReplyDeletewith do not go there.
Amazing that we have that.
Eck!
Isn't the brain fart with the NCAA for holding a tournament game in a white supremacist stronghold? Or was it to help Gonzaga through?
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ReplyDeleteTourney is in Spokane. . . Utah must have gone for the cheap room on Klan-town. Ya think the NCAA would have given them a heads up. . .
Gonzaga mens team gets off the plane in Detroit and goes straight to nearby buses (w/ police escort). A Michigan state representative Matthew Maddock claimed it was "illegal invaders" and posted 2 pictures on SpaceKaren's X.
Stupid should hurt...
LOL ~ Coeur d'Alene is quite possibly Idaho's most liberal community
ReplyDeleteSpokane (Gonzaga) is only barely better ...
Michigan racist says hold my beer.
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Not just a racist, but an elected Republican racist. And, when given the facts of the matter, he kept repeating his racist lie.
ReplyDeleteJones - NCAA policy is to let the top four seeds in each region host first- and second-round games in the women's basketball tournament. Since Gonzaga was a 4 seed, it would host those matches.
ReplyDeleteSince the NCAA picks the locations for the men's tournament several years in advance, and Spokane happened to be one of those locations, hotels in the Spokane area were all sold out, which is why the NCAA had to house the visiting women's teams in Idaho.
Sam240 - I am confused as to your argument - The NCAA was endplayed into a racist situation?
ReplyDeletethe Michigan Rep that posted the bigoted garbage about the Basketball team coming to Detroit is also married to one of the singers of the Michigan fake electors scheme. He was surely involved but didn't sign off on it. But both him and his wife were involved in chartering buses to haul Trump's Troopers to Washington DC to make sure they got there before the insurrection on Jan6. There seems to be a pattern here.
ReplyDeleteAlso as to Michigan racists. The new head of the Michigan Republican Party after ousting the whack job that Trump endorsed before by the name of Pete Hoekstra posted about the Police officer that was killed by an undocumented immigrant and claimed since that there are now two murders done by "illegals" that it is definitely a trend. Ignoring all the other murders every year and the thousand of criminals that attacked the Capitol in support of Trump. Michigan bigoted whacko birds of a feather.
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