High School Student Puts Stop to Racist Team Chant

Ideally this should have been reported to administration long ago and certainly now immediately. I cannot believe it was secret. While I don't condone fighting, I understand the frustration and to not take some action indicates it is O.K. Wake up School Officials and do your job.

This should never have happened but isn't funny how the "N" word is only racist when a white person says it. How about all of the rap songs with blacks yelling the word? Me thinks we still have a world of double standards.

I believe there is only one race that is superior to all and it is obvious by several of the comments here that some of you do not belong to it ... What race am I talking about? What race is superior to all others? It is called the HUMAN Race. So Yes I am a Racist, a Racist for Humanity. Everything else is a sub-race to the Human Race. Try being a Human and see how things change then.

I know for them it is wrong, but if it had been going on for years then why should it suddenly stop because a few were offended years latter? What's going to happen next? Will all of China have to quit slurping delicious food only because a person from Luxembourg moves there and deems it rude? I think racism should only be fought against if it is brought towards you and for reasons against, don't fight it if its already there just accept it. Its just a word with lots of historical emotions.

@Jagger Muffin: What statistics do you have on WHITE MEN molesting children Einstein? I'm sure you can find some interesting FACTS by catching up on How To Catch A Predator or by following the Jerry Sandusky trial! And maybe you should stop getting your idea of how black people are by the media. Try attending church once in a while. Black people don't dress that way. Get a real job. Black professionals don't dress that way! Your comment is full of ignorant stereotypes. Maybe you should get away from that computer and get out and explore the world a little; #$%$

ok one thing i am noticing here is that black people believe that the so called "N" word is their word and ment only for them when in all actuality it means a low down dirty person. which means that it could mean anyone of any race. you say the word hurts you b/c of the slave trade and you were traded and whipped and blah blah blah. IT WAS NOT YOU PERSONALLY WHO EXPERIENCED IT!!!!!! I am so tired of having to tip toe around you b/c you feel that you are owed something for things that didnt even happen to you personally. they happened to your ancestors. you dont see jewish people walking around acting like they are owed for what the nazis did to their ancestors. yes it is your history and it was a terrible thing but it is time to let it go and everyone just get along as equals. the fact that you guys are always playing the race card makes me somewhat racist. yes i admit it. it pis*es me off that a more qualified person cant get the job b/c of affirmative action. you guys are treated very well by this country and you dont appreciate a #$%$ thing. you want more more more. if want racism to end then how about trying not to be racists yourself. Most of us white people feel terrible about the slave trade and the word cracker does not make us proud for what it USED to stand for but you dont see us making a big deal about it being a racial slur. you claim you want to be treated equally and yet you make yourselves stand out by how these rappers dress and talk and its all over tv and the radio so its attractive to white children and they imitate it and then you bit*h that the whites can't dress or talk that way b/c we sound stupid. Well i gotta tell ya, you don't sounded any smarter when you do it. Grow up, get over it, and move on with YOUR life not your ancestors. Rejoice in what your race has accomplished and stop dwelling on what was done. You have a whole month to celebrate your history. take advantage of it because Lord knows if white people had a month we would be racist for it.

She looks like she has one of those I am a black witch and I am proud. You know that attitude that she is owed something.... Why is she going to a school that is mostly white.. Oh because like everything else the white people can not have anything of their own.. You know we have all black colleges, beauty pageants, Hell they even have an all black channel BET... What would happen if we had an all white channel?????? Lose the attitude and you may not be called that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

because the school staff from the coaches to the top are incompetant and wanted Tyra to not cause any more trouble so they took it out on her. They swept it under the rug so to speak and punished her and when they punished the team for their part and less of a punishment they were sending Tyra a message. And as far as the denial of the staff of the slogan in the first place,...They are lying,...Is i were Tyra,...I would sue them,the city and state for everything they have.

So, the use of this disgusting word was a "tradition" for the team. Does that make it right? Slavery was a tradition south of the Mason-Dixon line for centuries, so that must mean that was right too, doesn't it?! Stoning a woman to death (one of the most torturous deaths imaginable) for adultery is a tradition in the Middle East. Does that mean it's right? These girls chose to adopt an abusive attitude toward another human being, and NOTHING they say about "tradition" will ever make it right.

@ Keisha

What on earth are you talking about? People who chew with their mouth open and make that fricking unbearable smacking noise should be strapped to a chair and set on fire. I am dead serious. If you eat like that, I hope you suffer the worst of tragedies...

Thank you Shine / Yahoo.

Racists and those who think any racist remark or action that hurts the feelings of others, no matter how slight, are acceptable, think this because they are not on the receiving end of it and moreover because they are deficient in some way, be it in their learning as a child, or be it in their ability of brain power, either way they are ignorant and therefore do not have the ability to realise just how very ignorant they look to others, to the majority in the wider scene and not just within their ignorant little click, because as we all know, these ignorant people gang together to feel better about themselves due to their inner demons and weaknesses which spur them on to a kind of esteem boost by way of putting down others. They do not realise how weak they seem and what sad cases they really are, nor do they realise this is how we see them.

This is true of any bullying, be it racisms, weight based, gender based, religious, height, nationality or sexual persuasion based; If you are different from the small group majority at a venue, an establishment, you are thought of by these idiots as; inferior, at least that is what they would have everyone believe, but we know better, we know it is an excuse, a vehicle for their violence and abuse for their own self serving, egomaniacal satisfaction. Should this not be given the harshest of punishment? An act so terrible it is executed with fore thought, then stubbornly stood by in the face of pressure to solemnly and unreservedly apologise and for the victim to be exonerated of acts spurned on solely by these evil doers, shouldn't it not be the harshest? I say it should as it can lead as in this case to so much more and worse! Of course punishment should be unmistakably in the interests of the victim.

To see the victim also suffer from the remedial events is almost a nod of agreement to the perpetuators but with hands tied behind the back. To think, to hear, that so called intelligent people in positions of authority and no doubt within the educational system could settle on a result for the victim as sickening as this, just beggars belief. Has the day of obvious common sense gone, has education which has been dumbed down over the decades actually have reached the stage that the ones dishing out the results of the enquiry, were also the ones with the dumbed down education? It surely seems like it! For it must be as plain as day to any God fearing, God loving, caring human being as to what was right, just and fair in this case and what was a complete and utter antagonising slight on a young female student's very right to exist in her own, home country, one which, I might add, her ancestors may have lost their lives helping build and fight for, who's father or mother may even have been, or still be fighting in the military serving their country only to have their daughter and themselves suffer this kind of insane abuse.

Whether of note in their contribution to the country or just 'schlepping' it like the rest of us, they family deserve the same rights as do we all, the right to be individual, different, a minority, it is after all what made the most developed and 'advanced', (technologically advanced) countries, exactly that, the ability to do things differently and adopt from all areas and cultures to create anew or we would still be in the dark ages like many countries choose to be and that too is their right, if they are not needed to assist for the greater good, in an altruistic act, perhaps. To need to express reference to 'technologicaly advanced countries' rather than to simply say 'advanced countries', as herein, indicates a sorry state of affairs when being so advanced - yet while the simple act of civility and kindness, of Christian ethics in a historically, predominantly Christian country - has to be encouraged by authority and force. Yes! These bullies are indeed truly weak, 'sad' individuals, every bit accurately described as above with their menace a fore thought, be it routine or not; every participant will have been well aware of the minority on their team and how that team member would feel, yet they still made the decision to inflict 'scars'. What kind of animals are being brought into the world today!

This should have been stopped way before now. The whole school, not just the students, should be penalized. Prejudice is unacceptable. My wifes side of the family is all black/white and the color of someones skin does not make them any different. We ALL bleed red.

I'm surprised by how little of a suspension everyone involved got.

I can't imagine how horrible it must have felt to inspire this young lady to violence.

nobody is color blind I was once not black enuf to be friends with someone, thus I am only a brown asian lady.Still he pursues me but I was hurt forever.Be it not white or black or yellow or red I hope such sentiments must stop.We cannot right the world's wrong but be must find a place to belong.Asians like whitening as pretty tanning as caucasians is lovely.I hope more people like you are around girl.I hope you make it into the obama political arena.good luck.

America is supposed to be te number 1 country in the free world bu we certainly dnt act like it.All we have dne over te last several years is show the rest of te world how dumb and ignorant we can be.Its time t wake up and act live a civilized nation!

Keeping it real. Black men comprise less than 9% of USA population yet they commit nearly 70% of all personal and property crime*. Apparently coddling them and pretending they are civilized as we have been doing for over 50 years now don't work.
* 2010 FBI Regional Crime Statistics

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