re: Coach fired over watermelon, ape-like celebrations

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However, this IS South Carolina and the coach ought to have known. Maybe he deserves forgiveness and maybe not (I can't judge his heart) but the school system did the right thing by acting immediately given all the watermelon racism going around lately as well as the location.

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WTF does South Carolina have to do with it? We're probably the least racist, most get-along, state in the country. Blacks and Whites here reached an agreement long ago.

Let's really get to the Roots (pardon the pun) of this issue. The predominantly black teams were getting their asses handed to them by the predominantly white teams ... and the black folks didn't like it.

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But here's where the things get even worse. At the close of each game, the players smashed the watermelon on the ground while reportedly making the monkey-like sounds of "ooh ooh ooh ooh." Apparently, the players did this after four or fives games, each time evidently after the largely white Raptor squad beat one of their opponents, each one largely an African-American team. Parents of players on one of the opposing teams reportedly brought this to the attention of African-American School Board member Michael Miller last week.

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Next thing you know, someone is going to claim fried chicken, and that cute little nappy-headed African American kid named Buckwheat on Spanky and the Gang, racist things as well ... sheesh.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with teaching about the historical importance of watermelon in schools ....



BTW, Bud Walpole has been reinstated ( Video), and the complainers and whiners told to pound sand by the rest of the community.