No one said playing football is a “right” but you don’t have to right to remove someone without cause.

You can’t just boot a kid off a team for no reason. What is their rationale for not letting him?

Why do people always make excuses for the Japanese? It’s a first world nation, stop treating its racism as some quaint quirk. It’s not.

You making excuses now.

Look at the list of photogs, none of them are black.

You can kill, rob, assault, steal and burn down a village and they will come to bat for you. But rape is the unforgivable sin.

So committing one crime should taint one forever?

They have no legit rationale for keeping him off the team.

So what if public funds are being used. Are you saying that a citizen should have no access to public funds? What nonsense is this?

He’s a talented player, why shouldn’t be be allowed to play? Why should that be barred from him? Give us one rationale for keeping him from participating in school sports. People will make every excuse in the world for two little white girls who tried to kill their friend but one black kid who paid his dues to…

Because people are claiming that his past transgressions, for which he paid the legal price, should prevent him from participating in all areas of public life. There is no reason this kid shouldn’t be allowed to play football.

Your assumptions about teens are irrational and not based in reality. Teens are very capable of understanding consequences and repercussions. And I fail to see how being more experienced equals abusive. That makes no sense.

Young doesn’t always mean easily controlled. You ever try to get teens to obey or stay in line? And that brain development “science” doesn’t really correlate to “mature” or “responsible”.

Please stop! Millions of black kids like me would have loved a black Charlie Bucket! One of my favorite books and movies as a child would have been that much more special if Charlie was black. Yeah, thank god the protagonist of one of the most beloved children’s books and movie wasn’t black because Roald Dahl was the…

Charlie Bucket is a hero! Who the hell would have a problem with that? It’s thinking like this that made black protagonist so non-existent. Who cares if Grandpa Joe danced! Black men don’t dance? I dance and so does my grandpa. Charlie Bucket is black because racist had a problem with black hero, and idiot black…

How as Malcolm X racist? And against who?

What Malcolm X say that was anti-semitic?

Charlie Bucket is a hero and his family are the only decent people in the story. I don’t see how making him black would be a problem. And are Blacks only to be portrayed as middle class thrivers?

Maybe or maybe not, it didn’t matter. Charlie Bucket was the Schrodinger’s Cat of nationalities. Looked from one way he’s American, from another he’s British.

How is it particularly British?