Dale Hansen, a renowned sportscaster for Texas based TV channel WFAA, has launched an impassioned speech after high school students found themselves at the centre of a race row following a basketball game between Flower Mound and Plano East Senior High.
Controversy erupted when two Flower Mound students appeared to hold up signs saying 'White Power'. The reaction from the school was one of denial. The explanation was that there were five signs, and these two were held up at an inopportune time.
However, Hansen's speech, which is garnering a lot of attention online, dismissed that, saying that the school are well known for their outlook.
When my granddaughter, who went to Lewisville High, would be at a game in Flower Mound, she and her friends would hear the chant "Welfare babies, do you know who your daddy is? Because we know ours".
He then went on to explain how his own father's racism has affected his view of the world.
The one black family he knew were good people; all the others he didn't know? They were the bad people. The ignorance in that reasoning, if you think about it long enough, will twist your mind. And it twisted mine. Kids have to be taught to hate, and it's our parents and grandparents, and our teachers and coaches, too, who teach us to hate. Kids become the product of that environment.
