Racial epithets, slurs written in Sacramento-area locker room left for visiting football team
A week after two Sac-Joaquin Section high school football teams had seasons canceled for racists actions, a visiting Sacramento-area team arrived to its locker room Friday night with racial slurs and profanity written on a whiteboard.
The Sacramento Bee reported that players from the Del Campo-Fair Oaks rushed out of it locker room "flushed with anger" after reading the racially-derived epithets derived at them.
The whiteboard was discovered following a 35-14 loss at Vista del Lago-Folsom.
This comes on the heels of SJS football programs from Amador-Sutter Creek and River Valley-Yuba City having seasons canceled over on-line racists acts involving players on the team.
There's no evidence of player involvement in the Vista del Lago case, and according to school and district officials, they believe someone entered the Del Campo locker room in the second half to mark up and dishevel the area.
There's no evidence that it relates to the Vista del Lago program.
“First thing I thought was, ‘Are you kidding me?’” district director of athletics Peter Maroon told the Bee. “We don’t think it’s Vista kids. We have video surveillance and we can see there were middle-school-aged kids hanging around that locker room. It was very childish, what was written, hurtful, and it’s something that has no place in society.
"It’s something we have to address in our communities across the country. What we’re seeing is hard to explain and to understand. This is not representative of our district and we will do our due best to find out what happened.”
