High school team’s season cancelled - racist incidents

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A girls basketball player found an ugly, anononymous note in her gym bag

A Minnesota high school basketball coach has resigned, and a team canceled the rest of its season after a player found a racist note in her gym bag.

KSTP-TV reported the note said, “Get off our team, monkey,” with “monkey” underlined twice.

Demondi Johnson, the girls’ coach at Prior Lake High School, announced on Twitter February 23 he would step down.

I will never sit down to racism and will always stand up for those who look like me,” Johnson said. “I hope that those involved can be educated, be held accountable, heal their hearts of hatred, and learn to love those who look different from them.”

The Prior Lake incident marks the latest high-profile racist incident at a Minnesota high school in just over a week.

On February 15, Andrew Ewald, the athletic director at St. Louis Park High School, said in a letter his school would no longer compete with New Prague High School because of racist incidents. Ewald said a player on his team was subjected to monkey sounds and racist taunts while playing in a hockey game.

Prior Lake has been plagued by racist incidents in the past. Last year, the district made national headlines when two students were caught on video using racial slurs to berate a Black student. The incident went viral and led to protests on campus and in downtown Minneapolis.

Teri Staloch, the superintendent of the Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, announced February 23 that she’s resigning to work in private industy, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.

Demondi Johnson
@DemondiJ
Feb 26
I know right. More mad at me for leaving than they at what happened to Achai, or finding out which girl in our program wrote it. Sad!

Is it just me, or does that look a bit odd,
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Demondi Johnson, the girls’ coach at Prior Lake High School, announced on Twitter February 23 he would step down.
I will never sit down to racism and will always stand up for those who look like me,” Johnson said.
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And Johnson's twitter after that looks odd too, his response to school parents unfollowing him;
https://twitter.com/DemondiJ/status/1497629901255544842


Maybe I'm missing some critical bit of the logic process somewhere, but how by leaving do you stand up for those (students) who look like you and how by leaving do you find who wrote that note?

Weird.

Really, really, weird.
Stop the planet, I'll get off it! When everyone forgets about racism. Why don't we use the word racism on animals, they are all different breeds. I read a lot about racism, used https://sampleon.com/free-essays/racism/for this. There were things I couldn't even think of. I don’t understand what the joke is to blame someone who has a different skin color. People are just degrading!

What's the over/under on the girl sending the note to herself?

There's only been one Jussie Smollet. The right having nothing else.

I'm talking about right wingers using Smollet's case to basically invalidate every single case of racism against black people