Indiana: Ronny Thompson is a black basketball coach who seems to have been pretty arrogant. He was certainly an unpopular basketball coach who twice broke rules and then lied about it. He has now resigned from his job at Ball State U. Before he resigned, however, his unpopularity was so great that someone Left an abusive note under his door:
"An investigation is ongoing at Ball State after someone sent harassing and racial comments to the schools coaching staff.
Sometime over the weekend, someone slipped the messages under the office door of Ball State basketball coach Ronny Thompson.
"These notes were very racially insensitive," said Ball State Athletic Director Tom Collins. "It used a word that I won't use on camera. It used a word called 'cheaters,' it used the word 'liar' that was printed on it."
Accompanying the handwritten notes were articles from the student newspaper about a second round of recently uncovered NCAA rules infractions, and the university's own investigation into the matter. That investigation concluded that Coach Thompson and some staff lied to cover up the infractions
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That the note called him a cheater and a liar would seem to be the plain truth so why that caused such offence can only be because Thompson is black.
The note appears to have called him other things too so that is a separate matter but even if he was called a "n*gger" that would have been offensive only if a white wrote it and there are plenty of black fans and players who might have been angry with him and been quick to use that word. Or is the university making the assumption that a black writer would not have been bothered by lying and cheating? Sounds racist to me.
