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Lulz. Who says "cotton pickers" anymore???
Pittsburgh basketball game marred by horrible racist banana suited monkey chants
By Cameron Smith
Vile racism raised its ugly head during a boys basketball game near Pittsburgh on Friday when fans of a nearly all-white suburban school ran on the court in banana suits and made monkey noises to taunt the players for their rivals, who play for a school which is predominantly African-American.
Pittsburgh Brentwood High School — BrentwoodPGH.K12.Pa.Us
As reported by a variety of Pittsburgh media outlets, the Monessen Valley Independent and WPXI prominent among them, the annual basketball rivalry game between Pittsburgh (Pa.) Brentwood High and Monessen (Pa.) High turned extremely ugly when the two teams tried to head to their respective locker rooms for halftime. Before the players could leave the floor, three fans from the visiting Brentwood student section ran onto the court in full-body banana suits.
The fans surrounded the Monessen players and allegedly began making monkey noises and hurling racial epithets at the Monessen players, with no one entering the fray to stop the horribly inappropriate catcalls.
The Brentwood boys basketball team — BeRecruited
"I was appalled and shocked," Monessen parent Terri Payne told WPXI. "I was like, 'I can't believe they're doing that, and they didn't do anything about it.'"
Disturbingly, other Monessen parents claim that the Brentwood players hurled similar racist epithets themselves, calling the Greyhounds "monkeys and cotton pickers," as one Monessen fan told WPXI.
Meanwhile, Valley Independent staff writer Jeremy Sellew claimed that Brentwood Director of Security Joseph Kozarian, who was on duty at the game, refused to intervene, instead sitting back and at one point smiling and laughing with the Brentwood fans in the stands.
As more media attention has swirled around the disgusting incident, Brentwood officials have scrambled to try and alleviate pressure on the school and district as a whole. As of Tuesday the three students involved had been identified and disciplined, though their punishment was not disclosed to the media. Similarly, officials claimed they were "reviewing school policy to make sure a similar incident doesn't happen again."
Clearly, that's not strong enough. If the banana suit incident and subsequent racist abuse from Brentwood players occurred as numerous witnesses claim it did, the entire Brentwood season should be put under much deeper inspection before moving forward.
This is legitimate hate speech, after all, and the teenagers who were responsible need to realize just how damaging that is, both to their victims, themselves and society as a whole. At the very least, any players who made racist comments during the game itself should be punished significantly.
Lulz. Who says "cotton pickers" anymore???
must have been some prissy rich black kid academy or some fists would have been thrown, tbh
Good point. Was suprised that I didn't read that there was no retaliation, so your point might have some truth to it.
It's ed up. 7 or 8 years ago, we went to see my stepson in an elementary school musical in East Texas and one of the songs they did was "jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton." All feigned racism aside, we were shocked.
Strange. Would have expected some kind serious beatdown for those three. My first thought was they had school personnel that were on the ball and restrained the kids but that leaves me wondering how they didn't stop the ones in the banana costumes in the first place.
No, they weren't wearing bananna costumes. It was just the song choice we questioned.
Not really. Had they retaliated in violence, they would have proven the dumb s point.
Cant believe this stuff still goes on so blatantly.
agreed. If whites would only walk around with their pants below their crack, asking for free , we'd all be united.
crofl...I worked in the South Hills of Pitt in 2009-2010 and had many calls at that school
small world
fail
that sort of is not welcome, and if you get jump by red necks...u deserved it....
why dont they just call us " s"?
I don't understand why white people would even play basketball if they are racists. Wouldn't having your whole system of beliefs shattered every game be hard to reconcile?
Just stop talking about it! It'll go away!
I presume its kinda like swimming and black people. Black people are horrible swimmers. But I guess you like swimming too, right?
Or tennis.
Not only are you incorrect, you have failed to follow simple logic and produce a solid analogy. Do us all a favor and fail to reproduce.I presume its kinda like swimming and black people. Black people are horrible swimmers. But I guess you like swimming too, right?
Or tennis.
It's funny, I'm following your line of thought.
So you saying black people are good swimmers and tennis players?
If you failed to grasp my meaning, why white people should not play basketball if they are racists?
(for the record, those kids are idiots, but curious on why you said that)
I never mentioned swimmers or tennis players, tbh.
The next time a bunch of black kids bumrush a swim meet dressed in…I don't know…pickle costumes? Calling all the kids in the pool honkeys and crackers, I will concede your point. Whatever that is…
I was just curious on why you believed white racists should not play basketball, that's all. So I used the swimming/tennis-black-man-counter.
But if I mistook you for a "white people are the devil!" guy, my bad.
I'd go with an asparagus costume. But the black kids would have to be competing on such event too, to make sense.
It should be fairly obvious, but…Why would you choose to play a sport where you compete against people you hate and will, more often than not, be dominated by? I guess you are going to come back with, "that's racist!" or some . Even though only a complete dumbass would disagree.
Some white people ARE the devil.
Pickles, asparagus…it's just as stupid and arbitrary as bananas.
I was asking your opinion, and I agree with it.
It's like calling me a racist because I say black people can't swim or play tennis. It's true, only a complete dumbass would disagree.
Plus, they'd get dominated and ridiculed too, because some white people hate them.
Only genetic mutant Shrek looking mother ers like Michael Phelps are good at swimming on a highly compe ive level. There are plenty of black people who are good at tennis though.
I don't know where you got this tennis thing.
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