Mar 7, 2012
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A Texas school district has filed a complaint alleging that students from a rival school engaged in racism by chanting “USA, USA” at a basketball game. The students involved in the incident were reprimanded and forced to apologize.
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The San Antonio Independent School District filed the complaint with the University Interscholastic League, the governing body for athletics in Texas. They allege that students at Alamo Heights High School began chanting “USA, USA” after they defeated Edison High School to win a region basketball championship.
Edison’s team is predominantly Hispanic, said Leslie Price, a spokesperson for the San Antonio ISD.
“The implication as they are not American citizens,” Price told Fox News. “We understand competiveness and rivalry, but you need to choose your words and think about the meaning behind them.”
Price said she believes the “USA, USA” chant was racially motivated.
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“It was chanted selectively at a school that is predominantly Hispanic and there was understanding of that,” she said.
Price said the school district was bombarded with a number of people who found the “USA, USA” chant to be “very disrespectful.”
“That might be chanted at international soccer games,” she said. “But this is not a chant that these students chant at all of their basketball games. It was selective.”
According to local news accounts, the chanting occurred immediately after Alamo Heights won the championship. It lasted about five seconds before the head coach ordered the students to stop.
Alamo Heights ISD Superintendent Kevin Brown told MySanAntonio.com that he had apologized to San Antonio ISD officials.
“Unfortunately, after the game, we had a handful of students who made a bad decision and we’re very sorry it happened,” Brown told the newspaper. “They made a mistake and we’re going to use this as a learning experience.”
Price said it’s not the first time their students have been victims of insensitive chants. Last year students at another school chanted “USA, USA” and “Arizona.” It happened during the national discussion on Arizona’s controversial immigration bill.
The school district’s athletic director, Gil Garza, told the newspaper that the chant cannot be ignored.
“Our community is fed up,” he told MySanAntonio.com. “It’s really frustrating that kids work so hard to get to this level and there’s another group of kids degrading them.”
Jamey Harrison, deputy director of the University Interscholastic League, told Fox News that they have an “ongoing investigation” into the incident and at this point, it is unclear if the chant was racially motivated.
“Clearly, officials from San Antonio ISD felt it was,” Harrison said. “It’s my understanding they felt like it was motivated by the fact that most of the students on their team were of Hispanic origin.”
Harrison said they do not condone in any way “any type of derogatory chant or racially motivated chant at one of our events.”
Should the investigation uncover wrongdoing, he said the school could face a whole range of sanctions — from probation to potential suspensions.
Television station KSAT said the students who chanted “USA USA” were banned from the state title games and will be forced to apologize.
“We just hope that people know that that’s not who we are and we’re not going to let it happen again,” Brown told KSAT.
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Remember obama said this was not a christian nation! We cant use hate speach like that yaw.
One of the guys I served with is from the area (Christopher Wood) , and apparently this is what actually happened: "The school that said the usa chant was alamo hights in san antonio. In the news they failed to mention the other school saying "alamo whites" all during the game. They also fail to say that usa was chanted after the other team had left the floor after the game. Alamo heights actually congratulated the other team after the game. The other team also made fun of a student that was gunned down last year in a shooting and killed. Looks like a case of media bullshit. Since I am from san antonio I heard some of the extra stuff but it was left out of thw main stream media."
So I retract my statements about the particular incident, and apologize to the Alamo Heights students. Now they need to drag the other school's miscreants out of the woodworks, and offer an apology. The Alamo Heights kids should have never risen to the bait, but they didn't instigate it as portrayed by the media.
Glad to know the clarification.
We are supposed to bow to other nations and apologise for such a sorry country we are!
of course its racist, who the hell isn't racist? The most racist punks I know and had to grow up with and still have to put up with are mexicans. They call it brown pride and what have you…still racist which ever way you cut it. Do I care? NOPE. Everyone just sweeps it under the rug and ignores it, I guess b.c. we made them this way by all the negative attitudes/remarks us whites put off on them? Who cares? EVERYONE is racist, screw you and your holier-than-thou crap if you say different. No way in hell I'd apologize or make my child apologize for chanting. You should hear the tom we chant and hear from other supporters on a rival team…no one gets all butt hurt like you cry-baby americans. Grow a pair and shut your traps with all the rubbish of racisim. S*T*F*U*! I thought Americans were all tough guy/ dirty harry gun slinging gangsters…Sounds like a bunch of kitty cats crying over a tit they cant get to. You wonder why the world laughs at you? here just one of the many reasons. grow a pair kiddos.
We are the youngest country and the most giving people, and the most loving. Why? In GOD we trust.
viva la raza! Brown Pride! The mexicans are dangerous people. They are poor, under educated, and have a pride of their people/nation that rivals the nazis. They value respect and family, yet they have no interest in assimilating and making their lifes a respectable / legal. They are letting us whites live in their land and one day they will reclaim it back, just ask any of them. It is stupid to ignore all the racism that comes from them, yet if its a white the community gets in the biggest rift and something must be done! You americans are too funny… oh yea, btw…white pride!
I'm not a racist….. but fu(k them spics.
I'm not a racist….. but fu(k them spics.
school's in America right? Your students are American Citizens right? Your school is funded by tax dollars and gets federal grant money from the American government right? USA USA USA. Get over it. Use a GPS to remind you where your school is.
Unfreakin believable. Only in America.
Am I reading the same story as everyone else? How is everyone so blatantly misinterpreting their intentions? They were chanting "USA! USA!" because they're patriotic. They chanted it to belittle and mock the other kids. Unfortunately this whole entire story has been blown way out of proportion because of the misuse of the word "racist" by the school. And people, quit using Mexicans and European countries chanting and cheering at soccer games as support for the kids! Apples to oranges folks! Those chants actually are in support of one's country and national team…these ignorant kids chanted solely because they were bullies.
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The funny thing about this story is that you know there were black, Asian and Hispanics who had to apologize for being racist against Hispanics.
http://enidnews.com/sportslocal/x1511611507/That-offensive-USA-chant Some of the students chanting USA were Hispanic themselves.
NEVER appologize for being a proud American.
Sue the school district for being unamerican and infringing upon the student right the freedom of speech. This is BS and I can't believe any court in this country would even entertain this.
You gotta be kidding me…
Wow……what next? So is it racist to say God Bless our Troops as well?
I think they should have chanted "Remember the Alamo."
I think they should have chanted "Remember the Alamo."
Unless the students and fans of Edison High School were waving the Mexican flag, I have to agree that the students from Alamo Heights High School chanting "USA USA" was in poor taste. But the joke will be on Anglos in 30 years when whites become the minority in the U.S. Like my uncle says, Mexico will take back the United States without firing a single shot.
I love how the facts get distorted in this so easily. Also, this country has a long way to go. Some of the same old stuff being said.
Racist greatest hits listed below and from the comments. This is what side some of you are on.
1. If they don't like it here, they can go home.
2. Their language skills made them unamerican.
3. Want to bet half of them aren't citizens?
4. Perhaps if they didn't drape themselves in the Mexican flag on their hats, shirts and bumper stickers, and spoke English, the taunt wouldn't have had an element of truth to it (of course, nobody did that on the day, wonderful fabricated piece of racist anger).
5. Hispanics want to be un-American. They march through the streets for their "civil rights" while carrying the Mexican flag. They speak Spanish, live in Hispanic neighborhoods, associate only with other Hispanics, eat Mexican food, and choose to attend schools where they are in the majority. They have chosen this divide, so we should not have to apologize for acknowledging it. (thanks Patricia, oh, the 50's are over).
6. learn the language, pay taxes, etc. Bet most of these kid's families don't. If they weren't all illegals, why else would the other team have done what they did?
7. their illegal status makes them un-american, not their race or color…many AREN'T American and the other kids know it. <—–Wow, justification. If the other kids knew, guess that makes it ok. Unreal.
8. They are not fellow Americans! Fellow Americans would have no problem shouting, USA, USA! These are illegal invaders that we have to pay for.
9. If they can't pony up and ride as Americans, then they need to get on their burro and go back from where they came.
10. What if it was racial? This is still America, we still have (for now) the right to free speech. They could have chant3ed some real mracial words buty chose to take the high road and not do that. <—–That's a real clever person.
All this is directed at another team that we should be assuming ARE Americans. The chants were meant to make the other team's fans and players feel less American. Why is that? Nobody chants "usa, usa, usa" at a high school game. NOBODY. They certainly wouldn't when both schools are AMERICAN schools. Whatever thoughts there were on provocation (and let me tell you, it's come to light this school has had race issues before) nothing has come out in video or audio. How funny, since there was plenty video there. Also, two wrongs don't make a right anyway.
Zero tolerance for this behaviour. Men and women have been giving their life for the right to have freedom here for a few centuries now. To chant "USA, USA, USA" in a fashion not intended to be patriotic and to serve a purpose to humiliate others into thinking they were less American is an insult worthy of what is going on right now. Sorry, the good old 50's, 60's and 70's are over.
Just keep paying your taxes, more than 20 million ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS depend on you. America is lost. Look at some of the above stories.
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Liberalism….Need I say more?