A coach kicked a two Texan high school football players off of the team after the players protested during the national anthem Friday.
Senior Larry McCullough knelt and sophomore Cedric Ingram-Lewis put his fist up in the air during the national anthem before Victory & Praise Christian Academy’s football game, reported the Houston Chronicle. Ronnie Mitchem, the team’s coach and pastor, kicked them off the team directly afterwards.
“I don’t have any problem with those young men,” Mitchem told the Chronicle. “We’ve had a good relationship. They chose to do that and they had to pay for the consequences.”
Mitchem, a former Marine, had previously told the school’s players that he did not want them to kneel during the anthem, believing that the action offends veterans and distracts rather than calls attention to issues. The coach said he wanted the players to express their discontent by authoring and distributing a paper about political issues that troubled them, or by kneeling in the end zone after a touchdown.
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Outstanding!
ReplyDeleteDid you read what the mother said?
DeleteYes. Most of the issues with young people are due to parenting, or more precisely a lack of parenting. Coach Mitchem took a principled stand and taught these kids a valuable lesson about accountability. Obviously the mother is clueless and choose to fault the coach. The kids can either learn from the coach or learn from the mother. I'm hoping for the former but suspect the latter will prevail.
DeleteI'm hoping for the former
DeleteMe too.