It seems like only yesterday the worst thing we had to worry about when it came to high school basketball was a couple kids racing to avoid the ookie cookie. Today, we unfortunately find ourselves taking a 50-year step in the wrong direction, as the entire girl’s basketball team at Kenmore East High School in Buffalo has been suspended over charges of racist behavior.

The team, which was comprised of 9 white girls and one black girl, had a very peculiar warm-up routine, in that they would join hands in a circle and chant, “1… 2… 3…” and the N-bomb. You know what I’m talking about.

“I said, ‘You’re not allowed to say that word because I don’t like that word,’” she told the newspaper. “They said, ‘You know we’re not racist, Tyra. It’s just a word, not a label.’ I was outnumbered.”

The 15-year-old eventually exploded after a practice when a teammate called her a ‘black piece of (expletive).’ She says she got into a fight with the girl later in school.

(Via New York Daily News)

Yeah, Tyra, you know they’re not racist. They just love to say one of the most notoriously evil words in modern history. It’s like when my intramural flag football team went coed and we asked the girls to learn plays instead of recipes. We meant well and they got mad for no reason at all.

The real joy of this story of ignorance and just flat out stupidity is knowing that Tyra later beat that one girl’s ass, so at least if this news about a bunch of white girls who are an embarrassment to humanity in general makes you as angry as it makes me, you can close your eyes and imagine Tyra snapping her fingers and then snapping a neck.

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Allow me to present to you reason no. 1,943,531 why chicks shouldn’t participate in sports (insert joke from The Simpsons here). But if they are going to play basketball, at least stick with the uncoordinated waist-high dribbling, slo-mo bounce passes and layups, not an attempt to climb up the back of your teammate for a, um, even better layup?

And yes, I know that this video has been making its way around the ‘tubes this week, but I am also aware that the average With Leather reader is only let out of their enclosure to play on the internet for an hour a day, and there is a good chance you haven’t seen it. Believe me, I know how that goes. It has only been one short year since I broke my rusty cage….and ran. Crap, I’m still trying to clean up all the blood.

The video is truly remarkable. Who knows what these gals were trying to accomplish, but we should thank “Kelsey” and her accomplice for their nonathletic efforts. One thing could improve the video, though: some “Yakety Sax”. Add a little video editing – some comical speeding up, slowing down and playing the video in reverse and you got yourself a hit right there. To my credit, I did try to do this myself, but after researching how much work that would entail (downloading video editing software, music, etc.), I became lightheaded, passed out and smacked my forehead on my desk. When I came to, yep, you guessed it: more blood to clean up.

(Thanks, Uff, Burnsy)