Black H.S. Football Players Say They Were Racially Taunted With Bananas

SUMMIT, New Jersey – Players from a New Jersey high school football team with a largely African-American makeup said members of another team taunted them racially before a game this past weekend.

As CBS 2’s Christine Sloan reported, the players said the harassment involved the use of bananas by the opposing Summit High School team as a racially offensive joke.

“It was in the door and you could see through the door, because it didn’t have — no doorknobs – so you could see right through the hole,” said North Plainfield High School football player Anthony Lafond. “And they put the banana right through there.”

The North Plainfield players said they were so traumatized that their coach had to console them.

“There’s a few tears shed in the locker room,” Valley said. More

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