A template on facebook.com asks, “What are you doing right now?” An ill-advised response led to Buck Burnette’s expulsion from the University of Texas football team.
What began as a private text-message exchange on Election Night between Burnette and a friend soon became available for anybody with a computer to see.
Burnette, a sophomore offensive lineman from Wimberley, was dismissed from the team Nov. 5 for posting a racially insensitive remark about President-elect Barack Obama on his Facebook page.....
In the status update section of his Facebook page, Burnette posted, “All the hunters gather up, we have a (slur) in the White House,” in reference to Obama’s becoming the first African-American elected to the presidency. Burnette said the comment was a text message he received from a friend and that he exercised bad judgment posting it on his page. He later apologized in a written note that was read by Brown during a team meeting.
More here from Chron.com Sports
The story goes on to almost hint that it is social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace that are at the root of the problem.
While projecting your own ignorance - or that of a teammate - onto something else doens't solve the issue at hand, I'm wondering why this clown is still even in school. The Secret Service has every right to investigate statements such as these, and have in many instances.
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