White tennis player to black player: ‘At least I know my dad’
Source: Appalachian State
Source: Appalachian State
The lesson here: don't say racist stuff
A white college tennis player from Appalachian State University has been suspended from his team after saying a racist comment to a black opponent during the middle of a match.
The whole incident came to the forefront after John Wilson, the senior class president at the historically black North Carolina A&T State University, tweeted out that Appalachian State University freshman Spencer Brown told him “At least I know my dad" during a match they had over the weekend.
In the tweet, Wilson wrote "Black twitter, do ya thing:"
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And Black Twitter did its thing. The tweet soon got thousands of retweets. After the tweet got attention, Appalachian State released a statement annocuing they suspended Brown:
“After yesterday’s men’s tennis match, an Appalachian State student-athlete engaged in behavior that was derogatory and offensive. This student-athlete has been suspended indefinitely from the team, effective immediately, for violating the student-athlete discipline policy.”
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Wilson tweeted his responce to the stamemt soon after:
Source: Winston-Salem Journal
