A high school basketball team in Minnesota has come under fire — and is now pulling out of a tournament scheduled for Martin Luther King…
A high school basketball team in Minnesota has come under fire — and is now pulling out of a tournament scheduled for Martin Luther King Jr. Day — after its fans displayed a “Trump 2020” flag during a game against predominantly black inner city kids.
“Please explain how and why this is appropriate at a high school basketball game?” wrote coach Michael Walker, of Minneapolis Roosevelt High School, in a Facebook caption last Wednesday following the game against Jordan High School.
The post was accompanied by a photo showing a group of Jordan fans who — aside from the one black student sitting off to the side — are all white and displaying the “Trump 2020: Keep America Great!” flag.
“I coach a predominantly black inner city high school team,” Walker said. “We go out to a rural area in Jordan, MN and this is there.”
A parent from Jordan, who said she owned the flag, claimed on Facebook that it was shown off as part of a long-scheduled USA blackout theme night, but Walker and others weren’t buying it.
