Danvers hockey team, adults in power must be held to account
Danvers, Massachusetts, has a problem. A problem with alleged racism. A problem with alleged anti-semitism. A problem with alleged anti-gay sentiment.
But as best we can tell, the adults who are supposed to be in charge in Danvers don’t want to do anything about it. Not anything substantive.
They want to hide behind empty statements. They want to keep the results of investigations they’ve paid an outside law firm to conduct buried, not just from media, but from the very taxpayers whose money funded those probes, some of whom have children who are victims of the alleged hatred and bullying.
They want to pretend that the alleged vile behavior displayed by members of the boys ice hockey team at the town’s high school can just be swept under the rug.
That the so-called authority figures who are accused of knowing and turning a blind eye did nothing wrong.
That the graffiti discovered in one of its middle schools just this week is a mere unfortunate event and not a sign of a far deeper issue.
Because as everyone knows, when you simply ignore a malignant tumor, it disappears like magic.
Last weekend, the Boston Globe published its first story on the problem in Danvers, shining a light on the alleged toxicity within the hockey team and the continued malpractice of the town’s educational leaders.
Members of the all-white team allegedly bonded through weekly events called “Gay Tuesday” and “Hard-R Friday.”
“Gay Tuesday” allegedly called for players to strip naked in the locker room, and with the lights out, some team members would touch others inappropriately. If you didn’t want to take your clothes off, teammates would hold you down and forcibly strip you.
In Danvers, nothing strengthens a team’s power play like this kind of alleged molestation.
On “Hard-R Fridays,” the tradition was to allegedly shout the n-word on command, with the hard-r sound at the end. If a player refused, he was held down and smacked in the face with a sex toy until he had a welt on his…
Source : yahoo
