{"id":59099,"date":"2022-08-28T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T21:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/duke-volleyballs-rachel-richardson-says-byu-slow-to-respond-to-racial-slurs\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T21:28:03","slug":"duke-volleyballs-rachel-richardson-says-byu-slow-to-respond-to-racial-slurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/duke-volleyballs-rachel-richardson-says-byu-slow-to-respond-to-racial-slurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke volleyball&#8217;s Rachel Richardson says BYU slow to respond to racial slurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Duke volleyball player who was subjected to racial slurs during a match at BYU said Sunday that officials on-site didn&#8217;t react quickly enough when they were made aware of the behavior during play.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did they adequately address the situation immediately after the game, Rachel Richardson said in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachrich03\/status\/1563931324569849856\" target=\"_blank\">statement posted to her Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No athlete, regardless of their race should ever be subject to such hostile conditions,&#8221; said Richardson, the only Black starter on the Blue Devils team.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>BYU banned a fan from all athletic venues on campus Saturday, a day after the match, and said the athletic department has a &#8220;zero-tolerance approach to this behavior.&#8221;  The fan was not a student but was sitting in the student section.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson&#8217;s godmother, Lesa Pamplin, had tweeted that Richardson was called a racial slur &#8220;every time she served&#8221; during the match.  She also wrote that Richardson &#8220;was threatened by a white male that told her to watch her back going to the team bus. A police officer had to be put by their bench.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Richardson, a 19-year-old sophomore from Ellicott City, Maryland, wrote that she didn&#8217;t believe the fan&#8217;s actions were a reflection of BYU athletes, saying every opponents showed respect and sportsmanship and that BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe reacted quickly once he was notified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not the first time this has happened in college athletics and sadly it likely will not be the last time,&#8221; Richardson said.  &#8220;However, each time it happens we as student athletes, coaches, fans, and administrators have a chance to educate those who act in hateful ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Richardson also responded to the idea that some people would have liked to see Duke&#8217;s team respond quickly, such as by refusing to continue playing in what became a 3-1 victory for BYU.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the heckling eventually took a mental toll on me, I refused to allow it to stop me from doing what I love to do and what I came to BYU to do: which was to play volleyball,&#8221; Richardson said.  &#8220;I refused to allow those racist bigots to feel any degree of satisfaction from thinking that their comments had &#8216;gotten to me.&#8217;  So, I pushed through and finished the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, on behalf of my African American teammates and I, we do not want to receive pity or to be looked at as helpless. We do not feel as though we are victims of some tragic unavoidable event. We are proud to be young African American women; we are proud to be Duke student athletes, and we are proud to stand up against racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duke had its Saturday match against Rider moved from BYU&#8217;s Smith Fieldhouse to a different venue in Provo, Utah.  Richardson led the Blue Devils with three aces in the 3-1 win.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duke volleyball player who was subjected to racial slurs during a match at BYU said Sunday that officials on-site didn&#8217;t react quickly enough when they were made aware of the behavior during play. Nor did they adequately address the situation immediately after the game, Rachel Richardson said in a statement posted to her Twitter &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/duke-volleyballs-rachel-richardson-says-byu-slow-to-respond-to-racial-slurs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duke volleyball&#8217;s Rachel Richardson says BYU slow to respond to racial slurs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[4466,7867,213,7591,46],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64409,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dawn-staley-cancels-south-carolina-series-with-byu-after-racial-slur\/","url_meta":{"origin":59099,"position":0},"title":"Dawn Staley cancels South Carolina series with BYU after racial slur","date":"September 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"COLUMBIA, SC \u2014 South Carolina women's basketball canceled its two-game series with Brigham Young University after a BYU fan directed racial slurs at a Black Duke volleyball player during a game.\u201cAs a head coach, my job is to do what's best for my players and staff,\u201d said coach Dawn Staley\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/376f1de01b76ea967026f2f4adbd5ccc4920f877\/c=0-0-1899-1073\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/08\/09\/CarolinaGroup\/Greenville\/636063614330465769-nasdc5-5dho3soj4t0jcko73vg-original.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":62338,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/duke-volleyball-players-racial-slur-allegation-receives-pushback-from-witnesses-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":59099,"position":1},"title":"Duke volleyball player&#8217;s racial slur allegation receives pushback from witnesses: report","date":"September 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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