In one of the last classes we had, I remember talking about how there is a stigma put against Waterloo, I'm not from around here, but I have heard this in other classes as well. I have also heard that Cedar Falls is known as the "nicer place" to live and were people of higher classes live. I never realized all of the negative things going on between these two towns until one of my roommates told me a story about something she had seen about two weeks ago.
My friend's boyfriend is a coach for the Waterloo West Varsity Basketball Team. She was at the game when Waterloo West played against Cedar Falls. After the game she came to me talking about how at the game, whenever a black player on the Waterloo West team would shoot a free throw the Cedar Falls student section would yell "Haiti." She then went on to tell me that no one stopped the Cedar Falls section from saying these things. It wasn't until the Waterloo West side said something about how disrespectful their words were to not only their team, but to talk about such a tragedy going on currently. One of the players, for Waterloo West, girlfriends went and talked to one of the Cedar Falls fans telling them how wrong it was the statements that they were making. The fan then said "Well I didn't start the chant," she was shocked that they didn't see the wrong it what they were saying. Then when she went back and sat down, they started to make fun of her.
I was in shock to hear this story and how no one stopped the fans from saying these things and that Waterloo had to come over and ask them to stop, and this was just happening at a high school basketball game. I had heard of other hateful things going on within the Cedar Falls school system, but haven't heard of things being done with these students and the school.
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