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Icing racism in hockey: Players speak out – CBC

by ahnationtalk on November 16, 2017406 Views

‘I need to speak out, and for them to understand how hurtful it is,’ NHLer Jordin Tootoo says

Nov 13, 2014

For years, Tyler Woodhouse has heard the remarks, and every time he does, it hurts.

“We get a lot of comments like, ‘You don’t belong here, dirty Indians.’ A lot of things like that. It leads to more and more,” he said.

Woodhouse, 19, plays centre for the Peguis Junior B hockey team, an aboriginal team based on the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, but he’s also played on a lot of non-aboriginal teams through the years.

No matter what the team, when the stakes and emotions are high, he hears racial slurs.

“It gets to them. It takes them off their game, which is what they want,” he said. “I guess they consider that a strategy, and it’s not only from the players. Also we get it from a lot of spectators, parents, from the other teams.”

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/icing-racism-in-hockey-players-speak-out-1.2831319

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