Minnesota HS hoops crew backs out MLK invitational after flying Trump flag at latest recreation.
A Minnesota highschool the place followers reportedly displayed a re-elect Donald Trump flag throughout a latest basketball recreation has withdrawn from a Martin Luther King Jr. Day basketball invitational.
In response to reports, some followers at Jordan Excessive College, described as a “rural overwhelmingly white neighborhood,” displayed the flag when Roosevelt HS visited Jordan final week. Roosevelt’s coach says his crew is predominantly black, in response to the Chicago Tribune.
Jordan was reportedly scheduled for a matchup in opposition to Minneapolis Henry, however with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day basketball invitational being held at Roosevelt, they’ve since determined to not take part.
The Tribune reports that Henry coach Jamil Jackson says organizers the invitational had been advised Jordan “feared one thing would possibly occur to the gamers in the event that they got here to Roosevelt to play.”
Though, Jordan Superintendent Matthew Helgerson says, “Worry was not our cause.” Helgerson advised the Minneapolis Star Tribune in an electronic mail that the crew didn’t need its presence on the occasion “to detract from the athletes.”