Thursday, November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving Football
Brockton High football is pretty much a stable of every Thanksgiving here in the city. However, the starting QB, Kicker, and an offensive lineman were suspended for this year's Thanksgiving game along with their first round playoff game because they were caught drinking, obviously underage, and driving around a Stop & Shop parking lot ramming their car into shopping carts. My issue is that a few years ago the coach threw two players, who were both black, off the team for possession of marijuana. Yes the two infractions are different but this happened in the beginning of the year so those kids missed 8 or 9 games and never played again. The players this year were white. It was talked about a little on the local radio as "boys being boys." I'm not accusing anyone of being racist or anything but isn't it clearly obvious there is at least a huge double standard here?
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Yea, I have to agree with you, ther eis no reason why the white kid sthat were caught drinking should get a lesser sentenc ethen the black kids that got caught with weed. Bot offenses are equally punishable so they should be equally as punishable when it comes to the football team. What bases do they have to make the punishments different for the tyw different roups of students.
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