One of the richest, whitest towns in the nation, Flower Mound, Texas, ranked by Time magazine as the 12th best place to live in 2014, and 2nd best place to find a job, just had its youth show off on just why it thinks its deserving of those rankings. In a boys high school varsity basketball game, Friday, against a mostly-black visiting Plano East team, some students decided it would be a good idea to hold up signs saying, “WHITE POWER,” on their home turf.
The incident left those who witnessed the episode first-hand in disbelief. Devin Gifford, a junior at Plano East who also plays baseball for the school, had this to say:
This is ridiculous. I thought we passed the racial stage of society.
Onlookers said it happened late in the game, which ended up going triple over-time. Things especially heated up when racial slurs were also directed at Plano East players during the game, after a player became injured.
In addition to this, there are reports that Flower Mound students defecated and urinated on the Plano’s team bus, but so far the district has yet to confirm this, despite several students saying it happened.
Pic via NY Daily News.
Deanna Thompson, a Plano East parent, was livid:
To me, that’s criminal… It’s criminal, and it’s just sick. This was not a mistake.
Flower Mound High School is a predominantly white suburban school with over 3,171 students. As you can see in the table below, 81.2 percent of their student body is white, compared to an average of 33.3 percent for the entire state of Texas.
Pic via Texas Tribune
With this said, very few students are economically disadvantaged, with students performing well above the state average in passing TAKs scores. Only 3.2 percent of its students are considered economically disadvantaged, whereas the state average is 59 percent.
Pic via Texas Tribune.
While this is certainly an example of racial and class divisions in America, not everyone in Flower Mound condones these despicable actions. Flower Mound’s head coach responded by saying this was “unacceptable,” and added that there was “no place for this.”
Some students, on the other hand, tried to justify the use of the signs, saying that “WHITE” obviously referred to the team’s colors. But, many did not believe that “POWER” fit into any of the school’s cheers.
It was an intense game — one of the best so far of the season — going triple over-time, with Flower Mound winning by an entire 2 points, 75-73. It’s highly doubtful being “white” had anything to do with their ability to win the basketball game, however.
H/T: Dallas News | Featured Image: via Twitter
You can still be White TRASH even if you’re rich!
But it is ok for blacks to do the same thing????
Of course not, but please show us where Blacks have done such a thing. (Seriously, we’re all eyes and ears……Oh and make sure your information is from an unbiased source, no Fox, no Breitbart, the Blaze, ect. because we all know that they are “post racial”/sarcasm tag.)
Who in this day and age would dare to keep or secure data on blacks committing racist acts???? So are you making the assertion that blacks are NEVER racist? Oh, and make sure your information is from an unbiased source, no …….(you get the picture).
So are saying that this photo is shopped? Please adjust your tin foil cap, you seem to be losing reception….(Or did you escape from your local mental health ward, where’s your location so I can send the MHP’s to come help you.)
So when you have no viable argument you resort to name calling. Gee, what a shock and surprise!!!!!
Perplexed, your name proceeds you. I’m sorry but I don’t debate morons, you obviously are a right wing, tea party, conservative, who most likely has an IQ of a fish. I asked you for proof of your first comment and instead of offering me said proof (to which you have shown yourself as a racist too.) you go of the defensive. What do you really want? Upset that your polo wearing, BMW driving, caviar eating cohorts have shown their true colors? Obviously you should either a) go back on your yacht and sail away or b) go back to your woodshed and stay there. You are a joke, and not the type of person that I will waste any further time with. Have a good evening.
Other than personal invective you have ignored my response. There is no study that I am aware of that documents black racism. If you did that you would immediately be labeled a ‘racist’ by everyone including left wing zealots like you. You attribute personal characteristics to me when you know nothing about me. I love the yacht comment because it is so deliciously stereotyping that you leftist accuse us of doing. Again, is it your opinion that blacks are not also racists????
I am now flagging your comments, you can’t seem to take the hint that this conversation is over. You need to go and take your meds now Perplexed, good evening.
i hope someone drops a nuclear bomb on texass
Texas just sucks..wouldn’t live there for nothing..
the entire world sucks….. fyi
no, it doesn’t.. there are some wonder people out there. just haven’t found many in texas
they are certainly wearing the right color …orange…the same color as the prison jump suits
I lived in Collin County biggest bigots in the World. Felt fear for five years. Afterall they are Proud that they killed the only Catholic President was murdered in their State.
West Plano should have refused to play.
EAST Plano bud. And I fully agree.
can’t help but wonder what the conversations around the dinner table is like for families in Flower Mound Texas..
texASS = America’s AN U5!
Plano is one of the wealthiest suburbs of Dallas. It rivals Flower Mound.
Very rich high school versus another very rich high school. It’s racism but between two rich high schools, no need to gin up the story.
Don’t pass judgement until all the signs are visible. The ‘white” sign is four rows back, while the “power”, “down” and another unreadable sign are on the front rows. Let’s see what all the signs read first.
While jumping to conclusions is apparently quite popular when it comes to crying racism, how about giving the the sign guys the benefit of the doubt? The guy holding the ‘power’ sign is not only a few rows further down
from the ‘white’ sign guy, but he is also holding another sign with a
completely different word on it. I don’t know, maybe, just maybe, they each had different messages and this is a coincidence?
Even here in very very liberl Connecticut, I see racism on a daily basis. From the very nice family from Pakistan who bought a gas station just up the street, to the people who think that just because there are only 2 or 3 people talking in a group it is ok the throw the “N” word around. Not just in Texas.
There is also a sign that says “Down”, two more signs that are not legible, and the “White” and “Power” sign holders do not appear to be coordinating. Any chance at all that this is not as it appears to be, and it was a coincidence? Why would they wait until the end of the game to bust out their racist signs?
No point in trying to be reasonable, Bob. I also noticed the multiple signs, the fact that the two sign holders don’t appear to be cooperating, and the different styling of the two signs in question. looks like it was spur of the moment at worst, a coincidence at best. No verification of bus vandalism, but who cares. Allegation made, and on this site and to all of the SJWs who seem to live here, that’s good enough for them.