U.s.a Taunt At Hs Basketball Game

[EKublai]

I'm linking to the hotair conservative blog article to ground my refutation.
School apologizes for its âEUoeracistâEU chant of âEU¦ âEUoeUSA! USA! USA!âEU

Basically, I think that this viewpoint that "it's not racist because U.S.A doesn't refer to a race" is bs.

I think the thing that really takes the "nationalism" out and "racism" in is the fact that BOTH SCHOOLS WERE U.S HIGH SCHOOLS. Therefore the only reason to chant U.S.A would be to target the ethnicity of Edison's players.

The semantics that "U.S.A" is not a race is irrelevant because nationalism is a moot point since both high schools are American.

First, everyone at the basketball game knew exactly what was going on. That's why the head coach of the winning team immediately put a stop to it and later the kids responsible for the chant apologized and one of them even said "I wasn't even thinking".

As a former high school basketball player from Chicago, I understand how heated things can get. Shouting matches get started all the time amongst fans, and you always rub it in the other team's face. I remember a game where my school (a secular private school) fans had chanting match of "Evolution!" against a catholic fan sides shout of "Jesus loves Us!" And race was nearly ALWAYS a point of contention. The winning team is just as likely to try to bring the other team down further as they are to try to build themselves up. But it is the manner in which one side taunted the other.

In some sense, shouting "Edison Sucks!" would have been more appropriate.

In the end, these are high schoolers, so they get some leeway and excuse for inherently being idiots. But for me, this is really in the interest in how people are trying to take the racism out of a clearly racist situation.