Competitive banter on the field during baseball games is a norm between teams and typically stretches into the bleachers among fans, but one school district in Iowa is saying comments made during a high school game crossed the line.
A Black player for Charles City High School heard "several bigoted comments yelled from the crowd" during a game played at Waverly-Shell Rock High on June 27, according toand information from the school district communications director.
Iowa resumed high school sports in June and Chapman told CNN he was excited to get back to some sense of normalcy after the coronavirus pandemic brought his junior year to a screeching halt. But after hearing several disheartening comments during Saturday's game, he said he was angry and hurt. "I was angry because as a parent, this is the one fear I have for him," she said. "The other part of me was kind of relieved that it did happen because it opened Jeremiah's eyes to not be so naive and colourblind and ignorant to the fact that things like this still happen.""I feel like they were being kids and just trying to say whatever they could say to throw him off his game and unfortunately they took it to race," she said.
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