Texas football player booted from team for making racist assassination "joke" about Obama

[SoonerPride]

Well, as I said, no one learns, because Buck Burnette, back up center for the University of Texas Longhorns, put this lovely message up as his Facebook profile message shortly after the election.


"all the hunters gather up, we have a #%**er in the whitehouse"

Now, that gibberish there could stand for butler, or player, or something else that ends in "er." But, I think we all know what he meant. As you can guess, Mack Brown kicked this &$%*#@)! dumbass off the team instantly. Maybe you can take a guess as to what my gibberish means

Wow.

http://www.faniq.com/blog/Texas-Center-Buck-Burnette-Kicked-Off-Team-For-Making-Obama-Assassination-Joke-On-His-Facebook-Page-Blog-13665

[Wetzelbill]

1. Good for Mack Brown

you can't stand for that BS.

[SoonerPride]

2. I understand that when the black players on the team saw his Facebook entry...

they were hunting for him and were going to beat some sense in him.

This move was as much for PR reasons as this morans personal safety.

[Wetzelbill]

3. yeah I imagine they were

PR reasons or not, it was the best thing to do.

[SoonerPride]

6. As much as I despise Mack the Brown, he did do the right thing.

I just threw up in my mouth a little typing that.

:)

[jobycom]

4. Good for Mack Brown. Quick action. nt

[Wetzelbill]

5. Of course, this all breaks your heart and all to see Texas football

have a problem and all I'm sure. :)

[SoonerPride]

9. Couldn't happen to a better bunch.

And on the heels of their epic loss in Lubbock.


This week gets better and better.

[Wetzelbill]

12. hahahaha

I'm an Arizona Wildcat, Stoops family represent!

[ipfilter]

7. Book'em

[MrCoffee]

8. Thank you Coach.

Hook 'em!

[blondeatlast]

10. Good. The player is representing his school and they have no reason to put up with that kind of

behavior.

Kudos to the coach and the school. DON'T BACK DOWN. I would say the same if it were directed at George W or John McSame, too.

[budkin]

11. Props to Mack Brown... I'm a huge UT fan!

[blondeatlast]

13. Good. The player is representing his school and they have no reason to put up with that kind of

behavior.

Kudos to the coach and the school. DON'T BACK DOWN. I would say the same if it were directed at George W or John McSame, too.

[rcrush]

14. hah he just ruined his life

I'd like to see how he's going to get a job after he gets out of school. If he can even graduate.

[MaryEllen9399]

15. young people need to realize

that their myspace and facebook pages are there for everyone to see.

[formercia]

21. If he's an Ag student, his daddy will have plenty of money

I was a GTA at OK State. Those fuckers were almost untouchable.

[grace0418]

24. Well and what kind of DUMBASS thinks his fellow athletes won't see that and react?

Even if you believe that kind of racist bullshit, wouldn't it behoove you to keep it to yourself if you want to be a football player? Last time I checked there were quite a few African American football players.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. His "apololgy" (He's *not* racist)

"Clearly I have made a mistake and apologized for it and will pay for it. I received it as a text message from an acquaintance and immaturely put it up on facebook in the light of the election. Im not racist and apologize for offending you. I grew up on a ranch in a small town where that was a real thing and I need to grow up. I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok to write that publicly and apologize to you in particular. I have to be more mature than to put the reputation of my team at stake and to spread that kind of hate which I dont even believe in. Once again, I sincerely apologize."

[yodermon]

Well I hope the apology is sincere but what's done is done and gotta pay the piper. n/t

[hamsterjill]

28. The Next Republican Senator

Sincere apology? I think not.

[yardwork]

29. The only way to stop this kind of hatred is to hold people responsible.

He's right. He needs to grow up. I hope that this will be an important first step. The coach did the right thing.

[Marrah_G]

32. Dear Dumbass Texas Football Player,

Regardless of where you got it, if you put the term nigger on your myspace and if you refer to hunting in the same sentence with said nigger, then you are indeed a racist. It doesn't even matter if you don't spell out the whole word. Have some courage. Come right out and spell out the word you meant to use.

You are a racist. In fact I am pretty sure you will someday be a Stormfront Poster Boy.

Please do not ever procreate.

[rvablue]

34. It's just like that kid at a Palin rally who said:

"I'm not a racist or anything, but I don't want a black man as president."

Hello....Leave No Child Behind really isn't working to improve our schools as it seems racist, bigoted cro-mags don't seem to understand that saying/doing these things are racist.

[NatBurner]

17. longhorns...

boo.

[demokatgurrl]

18. Can't they throw his ass out of school?

[AspenRose]

19. Baylor Bears, now Longhorns

I can't wait to help turn TX blue again.


Nice going, dumbass! :eyes:

These past eight years you racists have felt free to spew your venom in public. ENOUGH. Secret Service will visit your ass if I EVER hear anything even REMOTELY resembling a threat against Obama, Biden or anyone else in this administration.

[DeepBlueDem]

20. I wonder if he made to the locker room?

If he did, we would look like an EPIC FAIL.

[okieinpain]

22. how could anyone be so stupid. what did he think his teammates

would say.

[kwolf68]

23. Teammates

FULL OF BLACK players...what a moran.

[yardwork]

25. Good.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

26. The the GOP

base at it again.

They are not as rare an animal as you all may think.

[ellie]

27. It's 2008

it's time these racists were stomped out forever.

[jwirr]

33. That said, isn't this threat against the law?

[barack the house]

30. This is a very good sign as I say keep making hard copy of great articles on here and post door to >

door in Texas and other red states on recycled paper of course. Keep that going too for 8 years, let's go for an even bigger win next time around. Changing hearts and minds one vote at a time. Use the printer friendly button to save ink too.

[deoxyribonuclease]

31. Good job, Mack

As a proud UT alum I hate to see this kind of ignorance represent the university. Mr. Burnette is still young; let us sincerely hope he learns from and regrets his mistake so that he has a better understanding of what our society is all about.

[rvablue]

35. Seriously, WTF?, Do we need to run a PSA on TV or something stating

that threatening the next POTUS with bodily harm or death is A FEDERAL CRIME and you will be arrested, charged, sentenced and go to jail for doing so.

Kicking this kid of the team is not enough. HE should be prosecuted because sooner or later these things need to stop being treated as "mistakes" and taken for what they are A CRIME.