Dis Integration
A couple of students were joking around over a beer-pong game, but Lewis & Clark College didn’t find it funny. One of the students, who is black, decided to call his team “Team N----r,” and he and his partner shouted that when they scored. They also said “white power” — the other student was white. Administrators put the two, both football players for the Portland, Ore., school, on probation. (AC/KATU Portland) ...Because clearly students who can joke together about race are a great threat to racial harmony.Original Publication Date: 25 May 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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