Dan Devine •Jan 10, 2018
[Welcome to Tha’ Palace!]: Four weeks into the Cincinnati Premier Youth
Basketball League’s season, parents of players on a team from West Clermont,
Ohio, saw that the team from Kings Mills, Ohio, against whom their children
were playing was named “The Wet Dream Team.” They also noticed that the names
on the backs of the high-school-aged boys’ jerseys included phrases like “Knee
Grow” and “Coon.”
What's the real story?
Tony Rue, a parent of a West Clermont player, highlighted the eyebrow-raising jerseys in a lengthy Facebook post asking how such attire, and such a team name, was deemed appropriate for a league that hosts players from grades two through 12.
Tony Rue, a parent of a West Clermont player, highlighted the eyebrow-raising jerseys in a lengthy Facebook post asking how such attire, and such a team name, was deemed appropriate for a league that hosts players from grades two through 12.
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“By no means are we perfect parents or assume our teenage boys are
innocent and don’t speak of things like this, but I could never imagine
allowing my teenage son to represent his school and league in this manner, let
alone representing our family with such filth,” Rue wrote. “[…] There is enough
hate, bullying, and aggressive behavior in the world that these kids, parents,
and schools shouldn’t have to deal with bigotry and lewd innuendos on jerseys
and in team names in a school district represented recreational basketball
league. This isn’t a typo, this isn’t a mistake, these are ideas that were
thought of, discussed, agreed upon by adults and kids alike, printed on
uniforms, social media accounts registered and manned and no one thought this
was a bad idea or inappropriate?”
“It was so blatant that it had to be fake,” Rue later told Chris Mayhew
of the Cincinnati Enquirer. “Sadly it wasn’t.”
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So Rue raised a flag with a rep for the youth league, wondering how this team was being allowed to play with stuff like this written on its uniforms.
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So Rue raised a flag with a rep for the youth league, wondering how this team was being allowed to play with stuff like this written on its uniforms.
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“I think he called people above him, and about midway through the
second quarter, he came and got the refs’ attention and told him the game was
over,” Rue told Karin Johnson of Cincinnati NBC affiliate WLWT-TV. “It was
called. We weren’t going to be a part of it.”
And now, the “Wet Dream Team” won’t be, either.
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“CPYBL was developed to provide the best possible basketball experience
for the youth of our communities and their families and has always been
committed to bringing a positive experience to all of our members,” wrote
Cincinnati Premier Youth Basketball League spokesman Ben Goodyear in a
statement to the Enquirer. “Based on the information that we received, the
actions and conduct of the team in question did not comply with our stated
mission and expected standards and that team has, therefore, been dismissed
from our league.”
That's not all...
They’ve also been “restricted from any further use of district facilities,” according to a spokesperson for the Kings Local School District, who emphasized that this team of students and the league in which they were playing isn’t affiliated with the district itself.
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Why does this matter?
They’ve also been “restricted from any further use of district facilities,” according to a spokesperson for the Kings Local School District, who emphasized that this team of students and the league in which they were playing isn’t affiliated with the district itself.
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Why does this matter?
“Kings Local Schools strongly condemns any type of hateful and racist
commentary,” wrote spokesperson Dawn Gould. “This behavior is in no way welcome
or tolerated in our schools and community.”
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The team’s coach, Walt Gill, apologized “to anyone that was offended by
the jerseys” in a statement to WLWT. He noted that the team “offered to cover
them up or change,” but that the league still chose to eject the team, “and we
have accepted that decision.”
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The incident has drawn the attention of the Cincinnati chapter of the
NAACP, which wants to have a chat with the people in charge of the rec league.
“This is a teachable moment for [the teen players] to understand how
these words are hurtful,” Cincinnati NAACP first vice president Joe Mallory
told Cincinnati Fox affiliate WXIX-TV. “They’re inflammatory, and they’re
divisive to the entire community. […] It’s everybody’s problem. It’s
everybody’s business that when these things happen we all stand up and speak
out on it.”
READ MORE:
- Players are the reflection of their parents and obviously the coach. This was not only taught but supported by the adults...
- I'm assuming that they weren't playing against any black kids...they love to flaunt their racism in a safe place...
- Someone OK'd the jersey's including the parent's of the players! Your going to tell me that not one player's parent said why is this on your jersey & not your name on the back of your jersey?!?!? REALLY?!?!?
- How stupid,insensible and ignorant.People are still as prehistoric as the cave dwellers.No room,no need for this #$%$.
- Amazing that any parent would think that appropriate.
- Total jerks. coach, parents and kids. There is no place for this in the world.
- It's just sad how stupid people are!! Their league should be banned from all sport activities!!!
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