Texas backup center Buck Burnette left the Longhorns on Wednesday for what was announced as an unspecified violation of team rules. Burnette, a sophomore, played in seven games this season.
It was later revealed that Buck Burnette posted the following racial slur on his Facebook page about Barack Obama being elected president:
"all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse"
Burnette was dismissed from the team Wednesday after coach Mack Brown became aware of what Buck Burnette had posted.
According to those who saw the Facebook page, Burnette updated his Facebook status shortly after Obama was elected president Tuesday night and wrote that hunters should now gather because of who would be in the White House. One of the people who claimed to have seen Burnette’s original post said it also included a racial slur. Others saw what Burnette wrote and posted comments on other sites, encouraging their friends to shut down his page.
Burnette’s page has since been deleted from Facebook.
However, screen grabs show that he had updated his status to an apology. The screen grab also showed that he had 255 unread emails.
Burnette wrote: “Clearly I was in the wrong for what I did and I apologize for being a sore loser.”
He offered another apology. It said:
“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. I'm 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 don't even believe in. Once again, I sincerely apologize.”
Nicely done, but it doesn't really help the whole situation. Indeed, the only apology we can read is that he is sorry that he posted it. Nowhere it says that he doesn't agree with the "text" he received.
The excuse of “I grew up on a ranch...” Does that mean that all ranchers are racists?
By the way, Obama actually visited the University of Texas football team while campaigning in Austin.
Great decision by Mack Brown and The University of Texas.
Source: Austin American-Stateman
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