…the fact is, if all there was to it was “USA! USA!” given the context of the game, the lefties who raised a stink about it would be correct in doing so.

In case you don’t know what we’re talking about, it’s this…

A high school basketball celebration turned ugly in San Antonia after fans at the game reportedly began a racially charged chant. Against a team made up predominantly of Hispanic players, fans of Alamo Heights (Texas) High School started a chant that the opposing team found offensive. The chant was, “USA, USA!”

The talking heads on cable news have been chewing on it for two days now. And frankly, the conservative talking heads have been wrong about saying it should never be considered racist – but only patriotic – to chant “USA! USA!.”

The fact is, yeah – “USA! USA!” chanted by kids who go to the school in San Antonio where the rich white kids go after their basketball team beats one of the schools where all the kids are Mexicans (or of Mexican descent, at least) is pretty offensive stuff. Or if it’s not offensive per se, it’s at least a little classless or rough.

Except the reporting on this story has been hideously incomplete. Because while there’s context within which “USA! USA!” is offensive, there is also context within which it’s not only appropriate but admirable as a snarky comeback.

And that context is that the fans of the school with all the Mexicans were yelling racial stuff at the rich white school all game.

Now, numerous reports have surfaced that Edison High School fans were referring to Alamo Heights as “Alamo Whites” while the game was going on.

Those people say that is racist as well.

The controversy also has people asking questions about why saying “USA” could be considered racist.

Ashley Mergele is an Alamo Heights junior who was at the game.

“People call us ‘Alamo Whites’ all the time, but I think in this situation it made a bigger deal,” Mergele said.

And a bit more…

Alamo Heights Basketball Game
I understand that the time of chanting “USA USA USA” was some what bad timing, but it wasn’t towards Edison and the hispanic race. We have chanted that at multiple games against all sorts of different races. We did not mean to be racist, if we were we could have said other things. I also don’t appreciate KSAT and other news stations for only showing half the story. Before you start calling Alamo Heights racist and other crude and hurtful names look at what Edison chanted during the game. Yes i am implying for you to rewind your film an watch it and listen to the whole game. I am a former student at Alamo Heights and this has taken all the attention away from are basketball team who is going to STATE. So more attention on them going to state please, i also believe that this would have never been on the news if Edison would have won.
ALAMO HEIGHTS “LOB CITY” WHATS GOOD ON TO STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obviously because Edison was taking it the wrong way,
its obvious USA offended Edison, they failed to mention how they were rude shouting out during the playing of our countries national anthem.

!) we were called Alamo whites. [A racist twist on ”Alamo Heights’ -VH]
2) made fun of Eddie a disabled kid and shouted rude things at him
3) had a sign that said alamo heights suck my….. ya inappropriate

Some of the people that are commenting on this subject don’t attend Alamo heights or even live here an they are saying nothing is wrong and it all goes down to how you look at it I would love to go pull out some old film after almost every game where we chant USA USA
Or go spurs go
It’s not to offend people it’s to be proud of what we are living for.

As it happens, Alamo Heights is the place in San Antonio in which people of pallor can be found in perhaps the heaviest concentrations. And “Alamo Whites” is an epithet of long-lived usage in that town.

So if you taunt the other team using the ammunition you have, which in Edison’s case is the fact that Alamo Heights is where all the country-club gringos are, you should expect nothing less than return fire when they win the game – namely that they’re going to insinuate that none of you are Americans.

Is it a bit rough? Sure. But that’s sports. Mess with the bull, you get the horns.

The fact is, Alamo Heights shouldn’t have apologized. And neither should anybody from Edison, which of course hasn’t happened. Both sides showed a bit of competitive mean-spiritedness, and guess what? That’s okay.

A generation ago, this exchange would have been looked upon as gamesmanship. It would have been seen as an understandable outgrowth of genuine rivalry, which would indicate healthy school spirit.

We’ve lost something when something like this is taken up by the politically correct crowd and made into a national story. It’s a big bag of nothing, and in fact nobody should be offended by the prospect of some snark and Bronx cheers being thrown around at a basketball game.

The scolds are ruining American life. Something offensive needs to be chanted at the scolds.