People in the stands at a high school basketball game allegedly shouted “Monkey!” and the N-word at a young black player and got away with it, according to the boy’s mom.
Stefanie Dickerson recorded a Feb. 13 basketball game between Lenape Valley Regional High School, in Stanhope, N.J., where her son Nasir, 18, is a senior, and Wallkill Valley Regional High School, in Hardyston, N.J., reported NJ.com. During the game, she alleged on Facebook, people seated in a section occupied by Wallkill supporters yelled the N-word at her son, made monkey noises and yelled “monkey,” and the officials and administrators present made no attempt to restrain them.
According to Stefanie Dickerson’s Facebook post, when the people who had been shouting the racial slurs gave her family the middle finger, Nasir’s father did the same in response. She alleged that a guard with a firearm on his hip and Wallkill superintendent David Carr “aggressively” ran over to the family, and Carr said, “Get out!” When Stefanie’s husband asked the men if they were aware of the taunts, Carr allegedly said, “Get up and get out, or you will be arrested.”
“My husband was ejected and escorted all the way to the front door by the one man with the firearm on his hip,” she wrote. “Nasir’s grandmother left with my husband as well. My husband felt threatened, disrespected, bullied, singled out because of his color and embarrassed. Meanwhile, the racial slurs continued.”
Dickerson tells Yahoo Lifestyle that as she and her daughter were waiting outside for Nasir to leave the locker room, a female student told them, “You don’t belong here,” in earshot of the same guard, who asked the family why they were lingering at the gym.
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