Posted on 12/28/2014 8:33:20 AM PST by rey
A high school basketball tournament set to begin Monday in Fort Bragg has been thrust into the national discussion over police killings of unarmed black men, after Mendocino High’s girls team was disinvited because its players refused to stop wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “I Can’t Breathe” during warmups.
The debate has pitted socially progressive high school students from Mendocino against a blue-collar Fort Bragg community still mourning the killing of Ricky Del Fiorintino, a Mendocino County sheriff’s deputy and popular wrestling coach at Fort Bragg High who was gunned down in March by an Oregon fugitive.
The controversy over the T-shirts, which bear the last words of Eric Garner, the New York man who died after a police officer put him in a chokehold, has amplified a fierce athletic rivalry between the coastal towns. With invective circulating on social media such as Facebook, the Fort Bragg Unified School District decided to invite a girls team from Round Valley in place of the Mendocino girls team. The Cardinals’ boys team will still take part in Monday’s Vern Piver Holiday Classic Tournament, minus one player who preferred to continue protesting.
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Good, this is a basketball tournament, not a protest.
“...socially progressive...?
“Socially progressive” is a polite way of saying programmed and dumber than sh*t.
I can see this happening throughout March Madness next year.
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Is that what they're calling mindless proto-hive minders these days?
For those who don’t know the area, Mendocino is a tiny little town populated largely by left over hippies and those few modern progressive types who can afford the coastal charm. Great place to buy an overpriced hand painted wind chime.
Fort Bragg is an actual town, just north, which still relies on fishing, agriculture, and logging.
I would like all basketball to stop - in honor of those young hoodlums and aspiring rappers who were gunned down in their prime.
All the empty basketball courts will give us time to properly reflect.
Oh those stupid liberal white girls. They think they are such statement makers! Life will change, society will improve, because they spent $300 on those t shirts that say SOMETHING IMPORTANT!!!!!
Yeah.
The whole “I can’t breath” nonsense it a Democrat propaganda campaign that uses useful idiots.
Since we are so far away from an election, I can’t really figure out why they are doing it. Maybe, they are just going for 365-24-7 division and hatred.
When was the last time anyone can recall a KKK cross lighting being reported anywhere? These protesters think they have it so bad... that they need to wear some tee shirts, march, call for dead cops, disrupt highway traffic and Christmas shopping, ultimately executing cops... get a grip before the lynchings start up again.
Mendocino Hogh’s student body is 1% black
Showing solidarity with the brothers just don’t go to our school
Instead of a road trip, they can help mom take down the Christmas decorations and clean their rooms.
haha, or help me take down mine!
Been to Fort Bragg a couple of times. Never bothered with Mendocino. I just StreetViewed it. First thing I saw was a church that had been converted into some kind of Worker’s Collective organic produce market and painted with that Rainbow motif.
Decades ago I was coming back down from a few days of camping and plinking in the mountains of northern Mendocino county and came across a hippie chick pushing a wheelbarrow down the road in an outlying settlement. She was wearing absolutely nothing but an ear-to-ear smile. Oddly, for a hippie chick she was definitely of the ‘not guilty’ variety. My friend and I chuckled about it all the way to town.
Mendocino is a hippie art community in Northern CA, they have not one iota of a clue.
Manufacturing useful idiots is a full time and essential job for leftists.
Yep, I’m well acquainted with the logger vs
hippie (read tree hugger) wars here on my side
of the state.
Good!
Somebody needs to make shirts that say “I can’t spelle.”
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