Racist Facebook messages land coach, youth league in hot water

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By Cameron Smith

A youth football coach in Georgia has jeopardized his future, and that of the youth football association in which he works, with a series of racist ramblings on Facebook, with his comments inciting fury among parents of athletes in his league, which boasts a minority enrollment of 50 percent.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Frank Samuelson, the coach of a team of 10-year-olds in the Brookwood (Ga.) Football Association, enraged parents of the players on his team with a series of posts in October where he referred to those of South Asian decent as "red dots" and Hispanic-Americans as "Beaners," while also attacking women and other minorities.

Among others, the Journal-Constitution cited the following two Facebook comments as two that incited the fury of Samuelson's football parents:

"I was dining in an Asian buffet today [big surpise], and I heard this morning how Asian students are suppodely so much smarter than American kids. My personal observation is that those fishheads still eat with chopsticks. It took Western ingenuity to invent the fork. I'm just saying. ... they a'int that friggin' smart." [...]"

How to solve illegal immigration: Arrest the 30+ million illegals that are here first. Have them build a huge brick wall across the border [those guys do great brick work], and make them build it from the Mexican side of the border. Mount 50 calibre machine guns across the top and shoot anyone trying to climb over."

The coach -- who also served as vice president of the Brookwood Football Association -- claimed that the comments were not intended for public consumption and referred to them as private jokes between him and friends, a defense which was good enough for BFA leadership to defend his role and keep him among the group's leadership core.

That, in turn, has led to public backlash, with parents threatening to pull their children out of the league altogether.

"I drive a good ways just so my son can play at the park because I wanted him to play with the best -- Brookwood is known for baseball and football," Roxanna Godden told the Journal-Constitution. "My son is mixed [racially]. If Frank is at the park next year, I don't think, my son will be there."

With the board still refusing to listen to parents' concerns about Samuelson's comments, the dispute now threatens to become a flashpoint for a neighborhood in transition. While 68 percent of the students in Brookwood schools were white in 2005, the past five years have seen that population dilute to only 48 percent, with 32 percent of students now black or Hispanic.

"[The Brookwood Football Association board] have called the police on us, locked us out of the building when we tried to meet and attacked our parents in the stands at playoffs," Blake Fleming, a white youth football assistant coach who launched the movement of concerned parents, told the Journal-Constitution. "We pay a premium to live in this neighborhood."

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Edited December 17, 2010 by 8TBVBN

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How to solve illegal immigration: Arrest the 30+ million illegals that are here first. Have them build a huge brick wall across the border [those guys do great brick work], and make them build it from the Mexican side of the border. Mount 50 calibre machine guns across the top and shoot anyone trying to climb over."

Sounds like he'd be right at home here on VJ. I've heard those views expressed sangfroid on here on more than one occasion.

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How to solve illegal immigration: Arrest the 30+ million illegals that are here first. Have them build a huge brick wall across the border [those guys do great brick work], and make them build it from the Mexican side of the border. Mount 50 calibre machine guns across the top and shoot anyone trying to climb over."

I have a better solution.

Levy a 35% tax on cash remittances to Mexico (and other countries illegals come

from), if the person sending the money cannot show proof of legal status.

Use the money to beef up Immigration and Customs Enforcement's budget.

This is similar to having to fill out a W-9 when you open a bank account

to verify US residency for backup withholding purposes. There is a presumption

(under section 1441 of the Internal Revenue Code) that you are NOT a US resident

until you establish otherwise.

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"I was dining in an Asian buffet today [big surpise], and I heard this morning how Asian students are suppodely so much smarter than American kids. My personal observation is that those ********s still eat with chopsticks. It took Western ingenuity to invent the fork. I'm just saying. ... they a'int that friggin' smart."

Apparently, this numpty isn't that smart if he thought his Facebook messages would stay private.

His obvious racism needs to be addressed with his removal from a position of responsibility over children. The Brookwood Football Association need to take a good look at itself for a bad call in defending this kind of behaviour.

Oh, and the coach needs to look up who actually invented the fork. It wasn't Western ingenuity.

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"[The Brookwood Football Association board] have called the police on us, locked us out of the building when we tried to meet and attacked our parents in the stands at playoffs," Blake Fleming, a white youth football assistant coach who launched the movement of concerned parents, told the Journal-Constitution. "We pay a premium to live in this neighborhood."

looks like someone's trying to get a promotion come hell or high water.

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looks like someone's trying to get a promotion come hell or high water.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? A frenemy.

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looks like someone's trying to get a promotion come hell or high water.

Racism is no big deal, right.

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Racism is no big deal, right.

Apparently, not to some here.

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Racism is no big deal, right.

didn't say that, did i?

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didn't say that, did i?

No, but what you chose to focus your attention on was telling.

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didn't say that, did i?

Implication by omission. You jumped to the immediate conclusion that the guy who reported it must be looking for a promotion and not because he was outraged by the offensively racist remarks.

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Implication by omission. You jumped to the immediate conclusion that the guy who reported it must be looking for a promotion and not because he was outraged by the offensively racist remarks.

i'm finding his motivation for the massive publicity about it in question, that's all.

who launched the movement of concerned parents

No, but what you chose to focus your attention on was telling.

cherry picking on that, eh?

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If responding to what you wrote by focusing on what you wrote is cherry picking, then yeah. Guilty.

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If responding to what you wrote by focusing on what you wrote is cherry picking, then yeah. Guilty.

it's the only thing that's left in question within the article.

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it's the only thing that's left in question within the article.

OK. Fair enough.