Dale Hansen discussing his own upbringing around racists.
Well-known Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen is making waves again, this time offering a sharp commentary on the "white power" signs students held up at a Flower Mound, Texas basketball game last week. He begins:
That basketball game in Flower Mound a week or so ago with Plano East has changed some of the rules now, but it hasn't changed nearly enough.
Kids on the Flower Mound side were seen holding up signs saying "WHITE POWER," and too many parents (and apparently others who care) tried to defend what you can not defend. Some parents actually argued that it was just a "mistake." They had five signs, grabbed two, and they just — accidentally when held together — said "WHITE POWER."
Lewisville school officials say now it was no accident. And how could it have possibly been?
They're taking their signs away, but there's a history in Flower Mound.
When my granddaughter, who went to Lewisville High, would be at a game in Flower Mound, she and her friends would hear the chant "Welfare babies, do you know who your daddy is? Because we know ours."
Watch and hear Dale Hansen detail his own upbringing in a racist household and why we simply cannot stay silent or brush this under the rug:
The full text of his comments can be found
here.