This is worse than saying I have black friends.
Really BET? That is your excuse?
Pray for our country.
One of the longest-tenured high school football referees in the state of Texas has been suspended for the entire 2019 season for making racist remarks.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Mike Atkinson, a high school ref of 45 years, was recorded using the N-word in several conversations. The recordings, obtained by the Chronicle, came to light in a lawsuit filed by Joe Machol, a high school and college official who also worked as a game clock operator for the Houston Texans.
Machol filed a lawsuit against the Texas Association of Sports Officials on Tuesday, alleging corruption and racism, after he was “banned” from officiating high school games and removed from his positions as clock operator for the Texans and president of TASO’s Houston chapter.
“I know what it sounds like when you hear those clips,” he said. “But I’m talking to (the person who made the recordings) in a private conversation, and he’s using the word, and I said it a couple times. I’m a jokester. I like to listen to things. I watch Black Entertainment Television all the time because I think it’s hilarious. I may have picked up something … I don’t know. I don’t know.”
What a time to be alive.
Flip the page to hear the racist ref dropping N-Bombs.