Via ESPN.com:
“It’s embarrassing, quite frankly,” Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, the U.S. Military Academy’s superintendent, told ESPN. “We take stuff like this very, very seriously. Once I found out about this goofiness, I asked one of our most senior colonels to investigate.”
Athletic director Mike Buddie and coach Jeff Monken addressed the team over the slogan. Buddie told ESPN that Monken was “mortified” upon learning the origins of the slogan.
The probe revealed that the team’s use of the phrase was “benign” and that there was no evidence the program was aware of the origins of the phrase, according to ESPN.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the slogan was popular in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas which was formed in the 1980s. The white supremacist group is considered to be one of the largest and most violent white supremacist prison gangs in the U.S. However, it has no connection to the original Aryan Brotherhood formed in California in the 1960s.
The organization also says outlaw biker gangs have used the similar phrase, “God Forgives, Outlaws Don’t,” in attempt to combat snitching among members.
Earlier this year, the Navy football team had dropped its own motto – “Load the Clip” over insensitivity to those affected by gun violence.
PC culture rules.
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