Colo. Player Suspended Over Racist Email

[deadparrot]

DENVER - A Colorado football player has been suspended and his girlfriend, a cross-country runner, has quit the sports program after being accused of sending a racist e-mail to an Hispanic member of the cross-country team.

The e-mail included a reference to dragging the man behind a car, recalling an incident in 1998 in Texas when a black man was dragged to his death. The two athletes were cited for harassment and ethnic intimidation.

A news release from athletic department director Mike Bohn on Sunday announced the suspension of offensive tackle Clint O'Neal and Jackie Zeigle's decision to leave the cross-country and track teams, but did not mention the e-mail.

A police report said O'Neal and Zeigle, who are both white, sent the typo-filled message to Greg Castro. It called Castro a "river rat" and "border hopper." The message suggested O'Neal would drag Castro behind his car.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051211/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_colorado_racist_e_mail

[roguevalley]

1. it must truly be a sickness, racism. I will never understand this.

[Imagine My Surprise]

3. Oddly enough...Guardian had an article on just that yesterday

[Imagine My Surprise]

4. see the Psychiatry ponders thread a few pages down

[Ian David]

2. Racists can't use spellcheckers. As usual. n/t

[ticapnews]

5. This is unexpected

Colorado's football program - indeed it's entire administration - has been a paragon of virtue for the last few years. That something like this should happen now is a real shock.