Sure looks racist to me. There are 4 of them.

As I looked a little closer - looks like four students went in blackface. To a school event. And the administration LET them?!?

5 if you count the idiot in the black balaclava with a black ski mask.

17% or 22% of the students, from that sample.


Racist as hell.

Funny how one notices things once one posts. Glad you confirmed.

and then looked again. In my school there would have been discipline for the whole school if that has happened. The game would have been forfeited.

and the player is calm. High marks for him keeping his cool.
These teams must have played before and this is probably the out come every time. Those catholic kids are going to get hurt one of these days. Other kids are going to beat the shit out of them away from the school.

I live a sheltered life. But he is on the floor that should halt the game. These kids are out of control. I hope they lost the game.

That’s fine but they wouldn’t be throwing a 3 point sign to the opposite team in-bounding the ball. **** and if their team had just hit a 3, the other player would be inbounding from under the basket, not the side. There’s no rational explanation for the white power sign here. No excuse for being on the court. Someone else pointed out the adult is from Catholic team. He needs to be out of there. I at first thought he was a red team coach.

Granted, vicious taunting is part of basketball ... violation of space and racial taunting are inexcusable.

I am not inferring that it was proper at any time. But the Southern hatred that used to be openly displayed is basically underground today and not publicly flaunted.

I didn’t even see them!!!

What is going on in this school???

This entire school should lose its accreditation and be shut down.

racism, hatred and white supremacy. Good job Catholic Church; you have always been the perfect fraud for hundreds of years!

There's lots of blame to go around for American racism.

Time to own it and do something about it or desolve it!

And yes, there are many sources of racism in this world. This Catholic School is one of the sources.

Neither they, nor any of the other schools "owned" by Protestant, Jewish and Islamic faiths, can be held responsible for the behavior of every one of their adherents.

it should be desolved immediately.

If we "dissolved" every school, church and government whose members failed to live up to the precepts of their organization,
there would be no societal institutions left.

Looks like the agenda isn't sinking in with student body. Covington epitomizes the state of the Catholic Church.

when a few of their kids don't graduate? That's a highly unrealistic scenario and won't be happening.

Even without the blackface, the facial expressions and hand sign alone are disgusting.

The blackface doesn't look photoshopped either.

This photo actually shocks me. What the hell is wrong with this school?

He is just starting to form the hand gesture. If the photo was taken one second later we would probably see the full hand gesture.

I'd like to see it posted nationally and that school's racist behavior completely exposed.

And TRUST ME, it's gonna go viral ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211703778

Looks like Nov. 2011 when they played Clark at home. https://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/wkdz/kybbk11/36021

Needs to be index finger so it makes a W.

Are suffering from economic anxiety.

in the case of Nicholas Sandmann

n/t

The one in the OP picture is not. Notice the middle finger on the thumb. That's not the "sign."

It's also part of pretty normal celebrations in basketball. I'm quite sure Westbrook isn't a white supremacist.



ETA: I think the Cov Cath kids are racist scum. We don't need go looking to 4chan trolling hand signs to show that.

See plenty of non-white supremacists do it at our local G-League game.

Just sayin' we don't need to search so hard for ways to make these little assholes racist.

Is not throwing a 3 point sign. The other team is inbounding. A 3 point sign at that time would not be logical. If the Catholic team had just hit a 3, the red team would be inbounding from under the basket, not the side court.

His middle finger on his thumb, not the index finger.

There are literally guys in black face in that picture. We don't need to create and stretch to try and make this bunch look racist.

ETA: The other team could be inbounding after a 3-point by Cov Catholic, btw.

What is the sign the kid is making? Muted middle finger?

Jesus would blow chunks seeing what these jerk "christian" republican kids are doing to his teachings of love and respect.

This has to be photoshopped because what school would let anybody into it in blackface?

Clark County, KY is about 1.5 hours south of Covington.

He laughed at the girl as he raped and sodomized her, and told her, "Stop it, you'll be fine."

This was the SECOND girl he had been arrested for raping, and was still on the team, and allowed to walk, even after he admitted to the second rape.

...especially to the clowns who are defending these racist scumbags.

Date? Location? Link to somewhere other than Reddit?

I guess it's a real photo. Ugly crap! Hard to believe, which inspired my skepticism. Thanks!

did say it appeared to be authentic and not doctored. Having been taken from the floor, one would think it was taken by an authorized press photographer.

See: https://www.truthorfiction.com/is-this-a-picture-of-covington-catholic-students-in-blackface-harassing-a-black-basketball-player/

The hatefulness in those kids faces is what disturbs me. And, there's no excuse for them being allowed to put on blackface. After reading up on the event in DC, it appears this school openly sanctions using kids to promote racism and right-wing dogma. This not only endangers these children's futures, but also (in the DC case) their safety.

of the same game and the same blackface fans.

It's real.

I haven’t been in school in a very long time and have very little memories of spirit week. There are a lot of articles out there of schools having a “blackout” day during spirit week. And kids taking it to far by painting themselves black as well, especially their face.
It seems most schools forbid the practice of completely painting your face, any color, at a school event.
Not defending this obviously, just that it is a bad practice, their parents and other adults should know better and the intent may be taken out of context.

This a lot more about poor adulting than racist kids.

Why?

Because kids are not racist at birth.

Racism, hate and apathy are taught.

These kids are surrounded by racist, hateful and apathetic adults.

Doesn’t excuse their behavior or make it “ok”. It’s just context.
What they need is real adults teaching them that this kind of shit is racist and hateful. Not standing there and letting it happen. Or worse, encouraging it.

It’s shameful that McConnell, married to a person of color, in Kentucky, would not be out in front of all this trying to defuse and educate these young people and their deplorable adults that are supposed to guide and shape them.
It’s shameful and sad.

But in this case I don't know for sure.

There's no other possible explanation for the white markings on the kid's face. Stereotypical, ugly racism.

That would never have been allowed at my public high school in the 1970s. And I grew up in a rural, conservative community. That shows how extreme the culture is at CovCath.

Was the school proud enough of this pic to put it in their yearbook??

It was a discussion on player harassment on in bounding a ball. Virtually no one in Kentucky (maybe 2 people) had any problem with the black face or hate. I didn't know just how racist Kentucky actually was, explains a lot.

WOW - talk about a culture problem.

so I'm surprised that you're surprised.

aka Putin's little errand boy

We shouldn't jump to conclusions or pass judgment until we have a chance to hear both sides of the story. After all, it would be terribly unfair to accuse these youngsters of being racist, just because they're wearing blackface and taunting black people.

University of Colorado faculty leaders may consider whether the use of black face paint at sporting events is school spirit or racially insensitive and reminiscent of "blackface" costumes.

The Boulder Faculty Assembly's diversity committee has raised the concern that, on multiple occasions, "blackface" costumes have been displayed at sporting events and on Pearl Street during Halloween.

But students who have worn black body paint to past football games say they're simply showing school spirit and supporting the Buffs, whose colors are black and gold.

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_17288625

school colors... right...

It's true. You'll see the blackface students in the first scenes.

They also did a "white out" where some were painted white. @ 3:20 in this video.

And a nerd version, business man version, toga, hunting, etc.

Literally everyone knows that. Your video starts with the same blackface images. Thanks for finding that one, too.

A simple, "yes you can dress in black, but no blackface."

The blackface shit has no logical explanation.

You'll notice that everyone is wearing all black.

It is apparently an event in which everyone wears black:

The racists may be telling this "black out game" story to the public, but the kid who painted big wide lips on his blackface and outlined his eyes with white circles knew exactly what he was doing. And so did all his white friends. And so do I.

Did they ever do this at games which were not "blackout" games?

Should be simple to figure out with pictures from other games in which the spectators are not all dressed in black.

That would certainly demonstrate that they did this at regular games, and would be a good find.

Looks to me like this kid seized on a "black out game" as an excuse to go full bore racist.

And as others have pointed out, many of us find the whole "black out game" premise to be racist.

Not buying any excuses for this. I know exactly what that kid intended and do did he.

I started a new thread so I could show both the still and video in one post:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211703778

The larger pictures and bigger points are tough to accommodate as such, so I can readily understand why you load up on the faulty analogy and discount context.

Everyone knows blackface is racism no matter where it occurs.

Are you trying to imply the the Covington students aren't racist because others do it too?

Pls explain what your point is.

Now, we must convince attendees of blackout games not to do that.



Sports Illustrated has a page full of them:

https://www.si.com/more-sports/photos/2008/09/29-0superfans-blackout-vs.-white-out

Note the quarter/time.

College Basketball does not have quarters, just halves.

Not that it matters, just making a point of correcting your error.

Funny enough ASU barely hung on to win that game, they had an ignorant tRump loving coach that was finally fired a couple of years ago.

Not at all surprised, I saw it in high school at a Catholic School in a city close to where I was raised. They played a Peoria team that had Black players, it was horrible, I almost got arrested taking them on.

The Parochial system owes its very existence to parents shit scared of the public school system.

A whole school?

My boyfriend at the time and I started yelling at them that they were racist idiots. There was a group of 5 or 5 people our age, late teens at the time. We didn't stand down because it was just wrong. They were yelling horrible things at the kids on the basketball floor and the fans. Ii don't allow it around me, I take them on. Sometimes it isn't the best idea, that night the guy I was with was 6' 4 about 260 so they decided not to escalate it and shut up.

Yes, I would have taken on the school, staying silent means you agree with those morons. Peoria was full of them back then, especially at the religious schools.

How disgusting and hateful.

Who the hell teaches their kids to be fucking asshole thugs!? What kind of teachers and staff allow this kind of behavior!?

I am sickened. Beyond that, I have no words.

I don't know how, but can someone send this to MSNBC, CBS, CNN and ABC?

Okay, I figured how to tweet the pic & copied the news agencies, but the more the merrier to get their attention.

First, Smirking Beak Boi's mom defended his racism, then the kid (Nick Sandmann) defended his racism and, here, we see how Covington Catholic HS seems to condone these sentiments.
The answer's simple:
CLOSE Covington Catholic!

The link in that post brings you to a post By MineralMan which shows a video. This video shows the same cast of characters.

I was too busy having a social media smackdown. MineralMan found the original link where it came from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=p2aQealN4SY

My guess it's owned by a press photographer either from Lexington, Winchester or Covington.

Unless the photographer or their employer claims and validates it, we many never know.

I personally think it's authentic, but don't think we should post photos on DU that are potentially inflammatory that have not been fully authenticated.

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I don't think they would have included it in their "official" YouTube site. One thing that's quite noticeable is huge waves of white skin.

Knowing parts of Kentucky as I do, I'm guessing that photo was taken by a press photographer and due to it's controversial nature, some people were instructed to bury it and perhaps not even archive it.

It's a damn shame that the behavior in that school still exists and in fact is officially sanctioned in many, many communities in today's America. It's double the shame that it exists within a religious organization (but then, we do have our evangelicals).

If Trump has done anything for our country, it's that he has caused the exposure of the ugly head of racism, xenophobia and misogyny that's been there all along - hiding in plain view.
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I think we're looking at two different videos. This is the one I'm watching, which since it's on their official YouTube channel, they likely would have sterilized it of any racism:

Link:

second row in: second guy from the left...third guy from the left...fourth guy from the left.

I was referring to the photo in the OP of a black player in a red jersey from Clark County that those kids in black (and some in blackface) were obviously harassing.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.......

These kids know damn well what they're doing is racist and offensive to black players. They're bringing it to school from mom and dad.
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That's the beginning of that game. If it's not, that ish goes on a little too much, because it's repeated.

What's that shit supposed to be?

I see a home game on their schedule against Clark in Nov. 2011 . https://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/wkdz/kybbk11/36021