Robert Pratt
It’s another Texas high school football Friday – may your team prevail. Sadly such has been front page news all week, and I don’t mean the front of the sports section, due to the disgusting actions of players from John Jay High School in a game at Marble Falls. The young examples of the coarsening of our culture appear to have chosen to take out a referee with violent action.
Greg Tepper, the managing editor of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football and the Pratt on Texas high school football expert, pointed out on the show this week that the suspension of an assistant coach by officials at John Jay High hints at a staff involvement in the brutal attack and if proven out, would raise this issue to a much higher level. You can’t just blame thuggish teenagers if coaches were in any way involved or encouraging; at that point your talking about the authority of the school being involved.
Almost as disgusting as the violent act itself is the claim by others that such an assault was justified because of an unproven claim that the ref made bigoted statements to players.
Our friend Bobby Eberle at GOPUSA.com re-printed one of these clannish, low-class justification of assault posts from social media and the wrote this: “So, this is what the country is coming to? Let’s just assume for one minute that the referee did make disparaging comments during the game. If so, there are official procedures in which the coaches can protest to the head official. That did not happen. Instead, the referee was attacked. So alleged name calling is now dealt with using violence? Is that the society we have now?”
The Left has taught people that perceived insult and inequity is the greatest of evils…
I ask: Why not? The Left has taught people that perceived insult and inequity is the greatest of evils and those who choose to feel as victims are justified in doing about anything – including the complete distruction of our culture and the re-ordering of cultural norms which have been in-place for thousands of years.
I think the ‘racial slur’ thing was a smokescreen thrown up by someone to divert attention away from the violence and perhaps the involvement of the assistant coach in the violence. The ‘reasonable man’ would normally brush off racial slurs or other such verbal assaults as being either childish or just part of the game of life. I read earlier in the week about the increase in physical assaults against teachers and other school employees, by ‘students’. It seems ‘the children’ have little respect for authority figures, rightfully appointed to manage their various activities as they learn to be adults.
It is obvious what the problem is – the school is named after a white founding father, who was probably a slave owner and molester of hamsters. Calling the school Malcolm the Tenth school for thuggery would solve everything!