Racial Slur Scrawled On Visiting Harlem Football Team's Bench
NEW YORK (AP) -- A football team made up mostly of black highschoolers from Harlem arrived for a game on Staten Island to be greeted with a racial slur scrawled on its sideline bench.
Written in black marker, the phrase included the n-word.
Authorities have classified the incident as a possible hate crime.
The Harlem Hellfighters were on Staten Island to play the McKee-Staten Island Tech Seagulls.
The Hellfighters is comprised mostly of black players from 13 upper Manhattan high schools and is coached by former NFL pro Duke Fergerson.
The McKee-Staten Island Tech Seagulls is comprised of players from two Staten Island high schools.
Black students make up just over 1 percent of the student body at Staten Island Tech, where the game was played. Sister school Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical Education High School is 41 percent black.
The Hellfighters beat the Seagulls 44-36, elevating their record to 5-1.
The incident comes after the discovery last week of a noose on the office door of a black professor at Teachers College at Columbia University.
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