A hate filled letter was sent to Cass Tech football head coach Thomas Wilcher after he led CT to a 49-13 division I championship over Cathoic Central last Saturday at Ford Field.
The letter which was dated on November 28th, referred to the Cass Tech players as ‘ghetto warriors’.
Here is a transcript of the letter via Mlive.com…
I had the misfortune of attending Saturday’s game. As I watched, I wondered how many of your players would be academically eligible if they attended a real school rather than a DPS holding tank. While graduation rates may be high, a recent study concluded only 4.4% of DPS high school graduates are academically prepared to advance to higher education.
Questions abound: Do your players attend class? Are they, even by DPS standards, eligible? As one looks at the declining enrollment freshman-senior, it is clear that DPS is a failure and in five years your players will be unemployed, in jail, addicted to drugs or worse. In a word–failures. So while Cass celebrates today, the future is bleak and you and everyone associated with DPS is a failure, hence, we have Detroit — a city about to be handed over to a financial manager.The ghetto warriors had their Saturday but, in life, they are losers.
Detroit Catholic Central President Richard Ranalletti recently stated that the school searched student parent and alumni databases and found no connection with the letter.
“We find that kind of a racist attitude and a very sad comment on the times,” he said. “My hope is that this is a misguided child.”
“We take very much pride in our teams and everything else,” Ranalletti added. “We were at the height of our season and our game, and they really beat us. We hope we’ll meet them again. Anything along the lines of denigrating their abilities or academics is so far out of the things we believe in.”
Detroit Public Schools responded with the following…
“This sort of trash is not worthy of a response,” Detroit Public Schools communications director Jennifer Mrozowski said in a statement to MLive. “The entire City of Detroit, alumni, students and DPS community rightfully take pride in the academic and athletic accomplishments of these youth.”
It’s my general feeling that the person that wrote this is simply a ‘fan’ (if you can call them that) with absolutely nothing better to do than spread mindless hate.
It truly is sad that there are still people in the world that think like this.
Aside from that, congratulations to Cass Tech on the championship and Catholic Central on a great season.
Ref: Mlive.com (image, transcript)