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RACIAL PROFILING

By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

It is only cheating if you get caught
Truth is the adults should get out of kids sports
But the kids are not dumb
They know when a player is illegal
I coached kids sports for twenty years
Both Little league and soccer
It is not the first time a team used illegal players
Most of the top winning teams in my state
Are using players not attending the school
The top pitcher of the number one team
Did not attend the school he was playing for
Good athlete are highly recruited
Diplomas are given to athletes who can't spell diploma
One particular example was coaching soccer
My team was made up of players who could not make the select team
A group of ten year old boys who just loved sports
Some were overweight one boy had a club foot
We surprised the league and won the championship
The next year as eleven year old's and first practice,
"You kids know where Barnes, Belau's and Campbell are?"
"Yes coach, they are trying out for Italian construction"
"Is that one of our select teams?"
"NO it is in the Riverside school District."
"Did they move to Riverside?"
"No coach but the Italian coach put out fliers
Anytime a boy on his team scores a goal he gets
a silver dollar and more than one McDonald's"
Of the boys who turned out only two made the team
Unlike my team not every boy on his team played
With a whole new team I played him for the championship.
I'd like to say we won but we lost 2-1.
After the game two of my last years players
came up to me and said, "Coach we hardly get in game."
The following year I stopped coaching kids soccer
I love it when my fellow coaches say,
"I Won the league Championship last year."

The names have been changed but the people are real. It happens
very level of sports.









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