Alabama Cheerleading Coach Dismissed After Reporting Racist T-Shirt Worn By Fellow Coach

[joeybee12]

An Alabama cheerleading squad has lost two of its coaches after a pair of racist T-shirts appeared at an August practice.

Brian McCracken, the assistant vice president of a Boaz, Alabama cheerleading team, resigned from his post late last week after wearing a Ku Klux Klan shirt to a North Alabama Youth Football & Cheerleading League practice, reports local Alabama affiliate, WAFF. The shirt's text reads, "The Original Boys In The Hood," and offensively makes a comparison to the 1991 film "Boyz N The Hood," which focuses on gangs South Central Los Angeles.

McCracken's friend, Brian McDowell, who is not a coach for the team, joined him at the practice sporting a "White Pride" shirt.

Both men told WAFF that the shirts were worn as a joke, but their presence at the youth cheerleading practice alerted volunteer cheerleading coach Kayleigh Tipton to complain to Kenny Jones, the commissioner of the North Alabama Youth Football & Cheerleading League.

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[shenmue]

1. The hell?

[Glitterati]

2. And, yet, they still do NOT understand, NOT FUNNY

hahahahaha, you damned fools. Joke to you is an insult to the rest of us.

Joke is on YOUR racist ass for a change.

Bet you're laughing your heads off now, right?

[LostOne4Ever]

3. Once again the person who does the right thing is punished =( (n/t)

[sarisataka]

4. Just posted the same

before I saw you had already covered this

All I can say is
Apparently they have zero tolerance for whistleblowers as well

[Octafish]

5. What's wrong with this picture?

Alabama, where it's now OK for the university's coaches to sport bigotry, but not point it out.

Alabama also is where Karl Rove railroaded Don Siegelman.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

6. Definitely low IQ.

Even in Alabama, did they think they would get away with this?

[Arugula Latte]

7. So far they have. The one who reported the shirts got fired.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

8. Hopefully, it will shake out differently.

What's with Alabama? Even Louisiana isn't that bad.

[uponit7771]

9. You're allowed by federal law to report racism in the work place without retaliation. Even if you're

... wrong about it you shouldn't be retaliated for reporting it.

[mythology]

10. Unfortunately that may not be applicable as she was a volunteer coach

Granted it's still utterly nonsense to hold her accountable as all she did was the right thing, but I don't think work place discrimination laws will get her back to being a volunteer coach.

Hopefully now that the idiot who told her not to come back has resigned (and it should have been fired/kicked off the board), Tipton can be brought back as she didn't do anything wrong.