WNBA’s Griner takes on bullying in a big way
Chicago Daily Herald
“I definitely got bullied as a kid and teased, and I didn’t really have an outlet or a resource that I could reach out to in order to get the proper help that I needed,” Griner said.
Source: www.dailyherald.com
Bullying culture cannot be ignored
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
During the 2010-11 school year, Kleist, now 19, was bullied mercilessly by high school boys who were older, bigger and higher-status than he was.
Source: www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com
Although my daughter has had first-hand experiencing with high school basketball teammates, forcing us to transfer schools (where she is thriving athletically, socially and academically), it is sad to read about teammate on teammate bullying in school sports , while coaches and athletic directors turn a blind eye. Of course teammate on teammate bullying isn’t limited to academic settings. Richie Incognito regularly and horrifyingly terrorized Miami Dolphins teammate and fellow lineman Jonathan Martin while upper management (and coaches) turned a blind eye. Is there no end in sight for these cruel acts of torture or had humanity simply lost its moral compass?
If it were possible for these racist Rockets to look through non-bigoted eyes to see the blatant disrespect for Asian American basketball players, the sheer magnitude of the unwarranted stereotyping and accompanying hatred, surely through the grace of God, they would feel at least some measure of shame and guilt.
Jeremy Lin loaned out his No. 7 on Wednesday. He just didn’t know he did. And he was not happy about it.
When Carmelo Anthony arrived at Toyota Center for his meeting with the Rockets, the Rockets had the building adorned in large photo-shopped pictures of Anthony wearing Rockets uniforms with the No. 7, Lin’s number with the Rockets.
Anthony wore No. 7 with the Knicks, the number Lin took when he moved to the Rockets.
Lin likely would be traded to create the cap room needed to sign Anthony if the Rockets get that chance, but for now, the No. 7 belongs to Lin. When the shots of Anthony in Lin’s number made their way around Twitter and assorted blog posts, Lin acknowledged he felt “disrespected.”
Lin initially Tweeted a bible verse: “Luke 6:29 – If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If…
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No surprise. Same old stereotype that Asians cannot play basketball, a theme from my daughter’s former school where she received racial slurs about her ethnicity and race and those of her friends–by her own teammates. After receiving my racial complaints my then 8th grade daughter was removed from the high school’s varsity team (being told she ” wasn’t good enough to play varsity” by the head coach, who earlier proclaimed my daughter was the most skilled player on the varsity team (though admittedly it was a poor-yo minimally mediocre team) and placed on the JV team, where she was a little-used reserve. Despite my numerous complaints of Title VI violations (of which the school district staff was obviously unaware), no action was taken to help my daughter in any way. After one of the last practices, she told me she would never get a fair shot at playing at that school and should just quit basketball and join her Asian friends (in the essentially all-white school system). It was then that I contacted a prominent civil rights group who wrote the school system concerning my daughter’s mistreatment, but like me, the civil rights group’s complaints were ignored also. Eventually, the group would file with the zu.S. Department of Education, a matter still being investigated though my daughter transferred to a new school, after playing on an AAU team that won the State AAU Division I Tournament, where she is thriving both academically and socially. Oh, and that stereotype (perpetuated at my daughter’s former school) that Asians can’t play basketball? Well, someone better remind my daughter again of this truism, and also the NCAA High Division I universities now recruiting her, only a year and a half removed from coming off the bench, only sparingly, on a crappy JV team at a classless high school.
If it wasn’t clear before Wednesday that Jeremy Lin‘s days with the Houston Rockets were numbered, it is now.
In an effort to court Carmelo Anthony, the Rockets posted pictures of Anthony in a No. 7 jersey in the windows near one of the entrances to the Toyota Center.
Anthony wore No. 7 with the New York Knicks, so it makes sense that they’d want to let him know how he’d look in Rockets red. The only problem? Lin currently wears No. 7 in Houston.
Lin responded to the development by tweeting a Bible verse Wednesday morning.
Wednesday’s visit in Houston is the second leg of Anthony’s free-agent tour after he met with the Bulls in Chicago on Tuesday. He is scheduled to travel to Dallas to meet with theMavericks later Wednesday.
Among the contingent meeting with Anthony at the Toyota Center were Rockets centerDwight…
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My daughter, the only minority on her schools basketball team was the subject of racial slurs from her own teammates, yet despite my many attempts to have it stopped, my daughter faced increased harassment not only from her teammates, but also the athletic staff. Despite the schools’ coaches claiming our daughter was the best player on the varsity team, each time we raised the race issue, her playing time was reduced until she was removed from the varsity team and placed as a little-used reserve on the JV team. The arrogance and disdain for my daughter nearly destroyed my health until a civil rights group, after being rebuffed by the school system filed complaints against them on my daughter’s behalf, with the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, as well as our state’s Human Rights Commission.
My daughter has since moved to a new school, where she is thriving socially, academically and athletically. Just 1 1/2 years removed from being a little-used reserve on the JV team on a poor to very mediocre basketball program, my daughter is now being recruited by High Division I NCAA athletic programs while her former school system continues to spend money on legal fees to fight my well-documented case of my daughter’s deplorable treatment under Title VI.
Anyone who honestly believes we live in a “post-racial” society should take a look in the mirror and then take a drive through some of their local neighborhoods where the less fortunate live.
If the racists only knew only how badly . . . .
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