The Utah team was staying at the Coeur d’Alene Resort after it was selected to play in the NCAA Tournament hosted by Gonzaga University. As team members walked from the hotel to a downtown restaurant, they were followed by a driver in a truck who was shouting racial slurs at them.
When they left dinner to return to their hotel, the driver and others who were recruited to harass the team followed them back to the hotel, revving their trucks’ engines and harassing them further, according to a police report.
Cecil Kelly III, a longtime resident of Coeur d’Alene, was not shocked by what happened, but he is saddened.
Kelly remembers in the 1960s there were agreements between the business community that “you would not rent a room to a Black person.”
“And you would not feed a Black man,” he said.
Everyone knows racism happens every day, whatever race they are.
You’re allowing the prevalence of racism to endorse its value.
That is defensive trauma. A hundred incidents of explicit racism and violence should shock everyone over hundred times.
It isn’t “cool” to pretend racism isn’t surprising in 2024, it’s permissive.
Shock to racism after decades of mass incarceration, jim crow, and centuries of slavery is a symptom of naivete, apathy, or ignorance.
It isn’t surprising because the US was founded on white supremacy. The only ppl shocked by it are those who’s lives aren’t effected by it. Half the time the ppl shocked by it are part of the problem
I kinda doubt white people are experiencing daily racism in Coeur d’Alene.
Why do you need people to feel surprised by something that’s been happening their entire lives? I’d rather people show outrage and make racists garbage humans like the ones in this article afraid to live in society. Right now they’re fucking flourishing.