Racist Incidents Dampen Utah Women's Basketball's Time In NCAA Tournament

[marmar]

SPOKANE, WA – Usually, the most upsetting part about exiting the NCAA Tournament is losing before you want to. That wasn’t the case for Utah women’s basketball.

Head coach Lynne Roberts revealed in her postgame press conference after the Utes lost to Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA Tournament that her team experienced racism toward the beginning of their trip that forced them to move hotels.

“Our team hotel was in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, which is not very close,” Roberts said. “It’s 35-40 minutes, so that was a little strange, but whatever. We had several instances of some kind of racial hate crimes towards our program and it was incredibly upsetting for all of us.” ........................(more)

https://kslsports.com/513670/racist-incident-dampens-utah-wbb-ncaa-tournament/

[NanaCat]

1. I want to know why the article didn't name the hotel

Seems like it would be important to include that, so people can know where not to stay.

Not that I plan to go to Coeur d'Alene anytime soon. Beautiful landscape, but the hideous people count is far too high.

[NanaCat]

2. More information, from The Guardian

The racist incidents happened not at the hotel, but from local yahoos:

Green said the team, cheerleaders and members of the school band were walking to dinner when a truck approached the group, revved its engines before someone in the vehicle shouted the n-word.

“We all just were in shock, and we looked at each other like, did we just hear that? ... Everybody was in shock – our cheerleaders, our students that were in that area that heard it clearly were just frozen,” Green told KSL.com. “We kept walking, just shaking our heads, like I can’t believe that … I was just numb the entire night.”

When the group came back from dinner, something similar happened, this time with two trucks revving their engines. The n-word was directed at the group again.

“I will never forget the sound that I heard, the intimidation of the noise that came from that engine, and the [n-word],” Green said. “I go to bed and I hear it every night since I’ve been here ... I couldn’t imagine us having to stay there and relive those moments.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/26/utah-forced-to-move-hotels-at-ncaa-tournament-after-racial-hate-crimes

The NCAA needs to issue a warning about the dangers of visiting or staying in Coeur d'Alene.

[rurallib]

3. thank you for digging deeper

[Prairie Gates]

6. Why can't the whites get their radical elements under control?

[Redleg]

4. Coeur d'Alene has the reputation as a white supremist place

I do not mean to tar all the residents of that town with the same brush.

[NanaCat]

5. The truth is the truth

Couer d'Alene is a white supremacist magnet:

Far-right extremists have made a presence in the region. In 2018, at least nine hate groups operated in the region of Spokane and northern Idaho, including Identity Evropa, Proud Boys, ACT for America and America’s Promise Ministries, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/26/utah-forced-to-move-hotels-at-ncaa-tournament-after-racial-hate-crimes

That's a lot of hate in one small pocket of the US.

[Arthur_Frain]

7. My brother was looking to retire/relocate there with his family.

I warned him what a white supremacist hellhole it was, but he discounted it as kerfuffle coming from his older liberal brother.

He took his family there for a week, and they didn’t get through 4 days of it before his wife asked him to take her back home because people there were making her very uncomfortable. She’s of Filipino ethnicity.

It’s not even that she got the overt “n” word harassment, it’s the whole subtle everything that goes on in a place like that where the goons know they’re impervious to any repercussions.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. They're not all like that

Coeur d'Alene is a resort town. It's really quite pretty.

Unfortunately, all it takes is a handful of assholes to fuck it up for everyone else.

[Redleg]

9. Agreed- assholes in the minority ruin it for everyone else

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Although I have to say, if the other residents are silent about this stuff they are somewhat complicit.