High school baseball star loses college scholarship after yelling ‘f*****g n****rs’ at black family

[DonViejo]

Racial slurs caught on camera and spread on social media cost a high school star baseball player his college scholarship, KGO reports. Video of the incident on Twitter shows a player using the phrase “f*****g n****rs.”

The student player from Pinole Valley High School of Alameda, California said those hateful words following a game against Saint Mary’s College High School of Berkeley Wednesday. The racial slurs were slung at the family of an opposing player. “Obviously, I was dismayed, very distressed by what had occurred and without question it was unacceptable,” Bussell Bloom, a parent of a Saint Mary student said.

The athlete had signed a letter of intent and was offered a scholarship from California State University Northridge. However, the recruiters dropped him after they found out the controversy as the athlete was tagged in tweets with the video.

“It’s given these kids an opportunity to see how far reaching their conduct can be and that’s an important lesson,” Bloom commented.

“Discipline is essential, consequences are essential, but redemption is also essential,” the principal of St. Mary’s, Peter Imperial said to KGO.

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[lpbk2713]

1. Rightfully so.

There's more to a scholarship than just being above average in one certain field.

His actions made him radioactive, no one wants anything to do with him now.

[Orrex]

2. How's his GoFundMe account doing since the news broke?

[Dream Girl]

10. I think it's almost up to $100k

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. And the lesson this kid will likely learn is ...

he is but another victim of overly sensitive minorities and guilt-ridden white liberals.

[gollygee]

16. Yeah I'm sure he's decided he's the victim

and he probably thinks the right to free speech means he should have no consequences at all for anything he says.

[Initech]

4. At least he has a backup career as a future Fox News correspondent.

[clydefrand]

5. Year ago, he would have learned a real lesson,

but NOW, he probably wonders what the hell is going on, can't I say anything I like to say? Thought it was in the constitution. There is LAW and then there is STUPIDITY which this person showed.

[geek tragedy]

6. 3 .2. 1 until the "freeeee speeeeeech" folks show up

to tell us that losing a public scholarship is a violation of his first amendment rights

[CharlotteVale]

7. Good.

[mythology]

8. Dumbass kid

Hopefully he learns from this.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. CSun is such a diverse campus he would have been shouting slurs left and right

cSun doesn't need that

[MineralMan]

11. Good. I hope this gets wide press coverage.

[libdem4life]

12. Consenquences, brought about by probably a cell phone. Something new and different these days.

Accountability.

Alameda/Long Beach is heavily black, so that's a puzzle. Much of the California "backwoods" and there is more than you might think, are quite Red. It's the cities and coastal areas that are predominantly Blue to make it a Blue State.

Berkeley is so liberal it's been accused of being, gasp, communist.

He'll be able to go to a community college pretty much for free, while he gets his act together.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Berkeley used to be that liberal.....don't forget they hired John Yoo

Shrub's torture lawyer.

[libdem4life]

15. Ugh.. Didn't know. Scraping the bottom these days, I guess.

[romanic]

14. Good.

You pay a heavy price for being stupid and the kid paid heavily. Oh well.