⢠McAlester News-Capital Editorial Board Mar 16, 2021
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Racism still exists. But an Oklahoma high school girls basketball team proved racism will always be on the losing side.
An announcer on the NFHS Network livestream of a girls basketball state tournament game disparaged members of the Norman High School team who knelt during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice.
Then he called them the N-word.
âTheyâre kneeling? F n ,â he said.
The announcerâs comments are the definition of racism:
⢠noun: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
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