Youth hockey coach speaks out after receiving racist message from parent

[doniceage]

Oct. 9 was a normal afternoon as Talha Javaid walked home from the Windsor, Ont., mosque he attends every Friday for congregational prayers. But when the 23-year-old hockey player and youth coach checked his phone, he stopped in his tracks.

“I was like, ‘What. The. Hell,’” he told Yahoo Sports Canada. Javaid received a text message from one of the parents of a child he coaches. The text message was fully loaded with racist and xenophobic ideology and began with the unoriginal line, “I’m not a racist but…”

https://sports.yahoo.com/youth-hocke...172309751.html

[warlock77]

Wow, I can't believe this young man who gives his time and effort to coach kids was subjected to that kind of garbage from from some racist idiot. It's unfortunate and sad that still today people just can't take others for who they are and not what they look like. I really feel sorry for that guys son to have to grow up in a household of hate and ignorance. Kudo's to the coach, don't back down from idiots and continue to keep up your great work! Thanks for sharing.

[doniceage]

Wow, I can't believe this young man who gives his time and effort to coach kids was subjected to that kind of garbage from from some racist idiot. It's unfortunate and sad that still today people just can't take others for who they are and not what they look like. I really feel sorry for that guys son to have to grow up in a household of hate and ignorance. Kudo's to the coach, don't back down from idiots and continue to keep up your great work! Thanks for sharing.

Glad you liked the Share. Your totally right in your response.

Don