Fwd: [Husker] OU baseball coach resigns over racial slur

[RJ Wessel]

Neal, I agree with most of your post but you singled out Tim who also agreed with you. It is Kerry whom you have a beef with.


> 
> From: Neal Smith <nealsmith_1965 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2005/05/02 Mon PM 07:33:44 EDT
> To: Tim Silvey <tjsilvey at yahoo.com>,  husker at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [Husker] OU baseball coach resigns over racial slur
> 
> Actually he did deserve to be ridden out of town.  He said "... there was no nigger in him" when referring to a Negro ball player.  Comments like that are unacceptable, especially by a person in a leadership position at a university.  Governments cannot directly change the way people think; however, they can change the way people act by taking action against this type of behavior.  These kind of comments are not once in a blue moon mistakes; they are evidence of the true feelings of that individual.  
>  
> Sure, apologists out there for racism, like Tim,  will say what great man he was; but the fact of the matter is, he got caught revealing his true character.  Thirty years ago in Oklahoma he would have kept his job.  Thank God those days are over.
>  
> Neal 
>  
> 
> Tim Silvey <tjsilvey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "I have never been a major Cochell fan but he did not
> deserve
> to be ridden out of town on this rail. The player he
> spoke
> of wanted him to stay on. Another black player on
> the
> squad had the same view as did the father of the first
> athlete. This is another example of not saying
> anything that
> might make anyone uncomfortable taken to its logical
> extreme."
> 
> Kerry Hookstra
> 
> 
> I am sorry Kerry, but after reading the comments that
> he made, he needed to resign. There is no excuse for
> the comments and no way for him to explain his way out
> of it. It is a very sad situation, but there was no
> way anyone in his position should be allowed to remain
> on the job after the ugly comments he made, not once,
> but twice. 
> There are times when I feel comments are taken
> incorrectly, or blown out of proportion. However,
> this is not one of those times. He needs some serious
> help and some education.
> 
> Tim Silvey
> 
> 
> "Not the victory but the action.
> Not the goal but the game.
> In the deed the glory."
> 
> 
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