Players of colour in the Greater Toronto Hockey League, the world’s largest minor hockey league, say they are routinely targeted with verbal insults because of their race
“I’d probably say, like, half of the games someone said something, but no one ever heard,” said Myles Douglas, a 16-year-old Black player from Georgetown, Ont.
Douglas says he hears racial slurs directed at him in half of the 45 games he has played this season. It is difficult to say how many players experience racism on the ice, but CTV News spoke with other GTHL players who also said they were targeted but declined to appear on camera. “We don’t publish stats about minors on an anonymized or aggregated basis, since that may damage the reputation of the vast majority of the young players in our league whose good sportsmanship is beyond question,” said the League’s executive director, Scott Oakman.
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