Minneapolis North player pokes the eye of a Minneota player during Saturday's State H.S. Football Championship

IMHO, we can't know if OP or anyone here is being consciously racist, but something about this whole thread is a little icky. The title is weird (Minneapolis North vs all of Minnesota?), there's no context to the incident (no excuse for what we see, but both teams could have been chippy all day, plus players can say things on the field to each other no one else hears, etc), and the whole thing seems cut to elicit maximum viral outrage (i.e. let's include him running off field to his concerned mother but not show his injuries). Again, I'm not saying OP is intentionally trying to stir up a bad thing or anything, but if I wanted to find/make something to do that, it would probably look a lot like this.

Now there are comments are bringing up his neighborhood as a derisive explanation, and as segregated as our town still is they might as well say what anyone who believes it is too smart to say directly and what everyone else will learn by association soon enough (and that's not even mentioning the comment calling this a "black and white issue", which might just be unfortunate phrasing but really tests the benefit of the doubt).

Really, if anything bugs me its the fact that it seems like anger is overriding a little healthy skepticism and more thought-through views (i.e. people complain about over incarceration, then fall over themselves to clamber for prosecution anytime they see a bad act). That's just kinda how reddit/the internet is, though, and not necessarily a racist thing; it could be twisted into a racist thing, so I guess I would hope that people think before they comment, but I won't say that I see anyone being explicitly racist here.

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