Calling Obama a "Watermelon Eating Baboon" Triggers Investigation at SLU

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A baseball player at Saint Louis University called Obama a "fricking watermelon eatin baboon" in a private group chat — and now, one year later, his teammates' failure to condemn that racism has landed the club in hot water.

And that's because what happened in response to the comment was nothing. No one replied to suggest the language was inappropriate or upbraid the player.


Instead, one player at the Jesuit university quietly took a screenshot of the conversation and sent it to a former student manager, who is black. In recent weeks, that screenshot has triggered an official complaint to the university, followed by an investigation, calls for the team to be barred from postseason play and, last week, allegations of retaliation against the student manager.

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