U. of Texas Player Kicked Off Team For Racially Charged Threats On Obama

[Amerigo Vespucci]

U. of Texas Player Kicked Off Team For Racially Charged Threats On Obama

By Logan Murphy Thursday Nov 13, 2008 1:00pm

http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/u-texas-player-kicked-team-racially-c

This story has little to do with sports, although you wouldn't know it from reading this article. Former center for the University of Texas Longhorns, Buck Burnette, made a racially charged threat against the president-elect of our nation and is lucky he only got kicked off his school's football team and didn't land himself in jail. The article brings up valid points about social networking sites and their potential pitfalls, but the real story here is about a racist pig who threatened our soon-to-be president.

AUSTIN — A template on facebook.com asks, “What are you doing right now?” An ill-advised response led to Buck Burnette’s expulsion from the University of Texas football team.

What began as a private text-message exchange on Election Night between Burnette and a friend soon became available for anybody with a computer to see.

In the status update section of his Facebook page, Burnette posted, “All the hunters gather up, we have a (slur) in the White House,” in reference to Obama’s becoming the first African-American elected to the presidency. Burnette said the comment was a text message he received from a friend and that he exercised bad judgment posting it on his page. He later apologized in a written note that was read by Brown during a team meeting. Read on...

Why is this bigot still a student at the University of Texas? My guess is that if he weren't a starting player for a nationally ranked football program he would already have been expelled and thrown out on his ass. People have been expelled for less, and I'm curious to know if the Secret Service has investigated the incident.

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[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

2. OMG, the whole thrust of the original story is "be careful what you write on Facebook"

Not, "don't threaten the POTUS."

But then this is Texas, where some people celebrated JFK's death. So why should I be surprised.

[fishwax]

3. for the record, he was actually a backup, not a starting player

The posting went up on election night, and Mack Brown had kicked him off the team by the next morning.

[Webster Green]

4. He looks like the dumbass little cracker that he is..

Hope he learned a lesson from this, but I doubt it. :crazy:

[bullwinkle428]

16. Poor choice of picture by the editor - Burnette is actually #66,

so I'm not sure why they chose a photo that features #12...

[MichaelHarris]

5. Gooooooo

Texas Tech! :)

[TexasObserver]

6. Good riddance to him, too.

[AgadorSparticus]

7. ugggggh. the bigot needs to be kicked out of school. what a disgrace to UT

[ej510]

8. Colt McCoy seemed like he was excited to see Obama during the primaries.

Why woul you post something like that when more than 2/3 of your teammates are black?

[mwei924]

9. Hell, 2/3 of all the college football teams are black. The dude's pissing everybody off.

[AgadorSparticus]

13. ooooh. that's a good point. bet he's the leper in the locker room now.

[olkaz]

15. Did you RTFA?

He's not on the team anymore. No locker room.

[No Elephants]

10. They sound more concerned that this guy put his thoughts on the net than they are that he had

that kind of thought in the first instance.

Isn't that missing the much more fundamental point? The more serious point is that the kid is a racist, not that he was dumb enough to post his feelings on the Internet.

Wouldn't you expect to see more action taken by the University to see if racism is widespread on the campus and, if so, to take remedial actions? Geez, a corporation would have started sensitivity training, but a university won't "go there?"

A fish stinks from the head down.

[colonel odis]

11. keep him on the team. more than likely, his teammates would mete out justice.

[CTLawGuy]

12. woah, woah

a white guy from Texas hates black people? would never have guessed.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. And that same text message was probably sent to thousands of cell phones.

And more than likely, the recipients probably got a kick out of it.