In the airing of a college basketball game,
an announcer cries foul on the broadcast.
>> This time by Jordan Clemson.
[NOISE] Who are these thugs?
>> Then he calls a black player a thug in his analysis of the play.
Inexcusable is one way of putting it.
>> Coming up off the edge Lane Hunter's going to try the left side,
he's got a little bit of room but he takes an almost cash shot.
But guess what?
They need to throw him out of the game.
Nico is a thug trash player.
>> But it's also what's occurred many times over with media figures and
black athletes like this example from Eagle Vision, broadcaster Corey Eary.
Remember the richest man in west Virginia, transphobic governor Jim Justice.
He added on to this hate speech when a fight broke out between the team he
volunteers to coach a high school girls basketball team at Greenbrier East and
Woodrow Wilson high.
Well he said it too.
With an A on the end.
Isn't that the point because it's not racist?
>> The late Rush Limbaugh racist conservative radio host, he put the NBA
like this, it's time to get rid of this whole National basketball Association,
call it the TBA the Thug Basketball Association and stop calling them teams,
call them gangs, they're going in to watch the Crips and the Bloods out there,
wherever the neighborhood is, where the arena happens to be,
the uniforms have changed totally there now in gang colors.
>> Let me put it to you this way, the NFL all too often looks
like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.
>> Remember when Lebron James and the Miami heat posted this powerful picture
after Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman.
>> You dressed like a thug people are going to treat you like a thug.
That's true.
I stand by that.
>> This was Fox News's reaction from Florida to Baltimore.
>> The mayor of Baltimore who has come under a lot of criticism,
scathing criticism for her handling of this referred to the people who were doing
this last night as thugs.
Isn't it the right word?
They know it's wrong to steal and burned down CVS and an old person's home.
I mean, come on.
>> Come on.
So calling them thugs, just call them.
>> The usage of this word has made its way through America.
Fortunately the tide may be turning in the form of punishment.
For Play-by-Play Broadcaster Jonathan Drew, that may have been his final sign
off because according to the Salt Lake tribune, the College of Southern Idaho,
which played SLCC this week denounced it's announcer's comments and
immediately terminated his contract.
The College of Southern Idaho and
the CSI Athletic department want to apologize to the Salt Lake community
college players, coaches and fans for the comments made during the broadcast.
Southern Idaho Athletic director, Joel Bate said in a prepared statement.
However, one college basketball player calls bs on it.
I don't think there's any room for anybody to be constituted a thug for
making a tough basketball play, said Tyler Burgess,
a former college basketball player who currently has ties to SLCC.
For me, I just think it's extremely uncalled for it's racist.
It is racist he said.
I need to say something for me being a former athlete,
a young African American male that is not okay.
As always there will be defenders of this coded language.
For that We introduced Bill Coley of KLIX news radio in his masterful thing piece.
He wrote his belief that this is a media driven witch hunt.
He then compared Baltimore to the freedom convoy/trucker convoy
fughazi movement and tries tying it to the George Floyd protests.
To put the cherry on top Coley wrote college folded as woke mob came calling,
adding, you also saw a complete lack of courage at CSI.
Apparently there wasn't any deliberation.
Drew had to go to appease the outrage machine.
Time like the far sides 1992 hit is passing coldly by but
you already knew that.
In reference to the original comment
SLCC Athletic Director Kevin Dustin said in a statement.
This is really an opportunity for all of us to become more aware and
mindful of the words we use to describe others which can potentially
be inappropriate and insensitive.
We do not believe the comment reflects the values of Southern Idaho as we've
come to know them over the years