A North Carolina college is under fire after supporters of the school’s women’s soccer team demonstrated outlandishly bigoted behavior toward the guest team during a game last week.
The crowd became unruly and yelled racial slurs at the HBCU team, and now their administration is demanding an apology.
Guilford College’s President, Kyle Farmbry, a Black man, said he launched an investigation into the incident that offended the Virginia State University team when they came to play at the Greensboro, North Carolina, campus on Tuesday, Sept. 26.
The 2023 season marks the first year of the Lady Trojans soccer program. Their game against Guilford’s Quakers was one of their first games, making the offense even more amplified to the Virginia State team, which eventually lost the game 8-1.
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The good-sported Quakers heard the racial slurs and apologized to the team for the behavior of the fans.
The incident was made public after VSU released a memo after the game requesting an apology from the institution directly to their student-athletes.
“During the game, the opposing team’s fans reportedly yelled the N-word and made monkey noises aimed at our student-athletes,” the university said in the memo. “While there have been direct apologies to our administration, VSU says that our student-athletes also deserve a personal apology.”
Farmbry did not give remarks to the students but, via the school’s website, gave a blanket apology to the university and mentioned he spoke to the institution’s president, Dr. Makola M. Abdullah.
“According to the information that I have already gathered, loud outbursts from a group of spectators included profanity and derogatory remarks toward the Virginia State team. It was in very poor taste and was very poor sportsmanship by anyone’s definition,” Farmbry said.
“Virginia State parents and other fans observed the behavior and have reached out to me about…
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