High college sports activities deliver out a number of huge feelings, each on the court docket and within the stands.

Sometimes they convey out the ugly facet of individuals, together with racist feedback and actions.

Lincoln High School in Southeast San Diego felt this subject first-hand lower than two years in the past.

“We’ve been trained to accept it, and that’s not okay,” Lincoln football coach David Dunn said. “There’s no place for racism in sports or anything else.”

The college was on the receiving finish of racially charged messaging on T-shirts and social media posts by some Cathedral Catholic High School college students in 2021.

“When we have to prepare our kids to potentially face racial comments — being stepped on, being spat at, being antagonized, being called out of their name during a contest in certain areas of the city — that’s a whole other ballgame,” Dunn mentioned.

Around the identical time in 2021, a tortilla-throwing incident focused at a principally Latino staff from Escondido’s Orange Glen High School rocked the native highschool sports activities scene. It finally led to sanctions towards Coronado High School.

Assemblymember Akilah Weber, D-San Diego, is trying to change these varieties of situations with Assembly Bill 1327, which is sponsored by the California-Hawaii NAACP.

“This bill ensures that these incidents are reported and tracked, and the public and legislature are made aware of these every time they occur,” she mentioned.

The bill would require the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to work alongside neighborhood organizations and develop a standardized incident kind to trace racial discrimination or harassment that happens at highschool sporting video games or occasions.

The CIF would additionally need to submit outcomes yearly on its website.

Lincoln basketball coach Jeff Harper-Harris mentioned these kinds of incidents incessantly occur, on and off the court docket.

“I got four basketball players in the car. I get pulled over because the officer says it looks like we’re casing the neighborhood — there’s robberies,” he mentioned, describing an incident earlier than a sport in La Jolla. “Now that incident with our kids in the car turned over to the basketball game.”

He mentioned the racism he and his gamers endure impacts their play and causes psychological trauma.

“My end-game is for my kids to be able to play at Lincoln High School and go play La Jolla, go up north of 805, play a basketball game that has nothing to do with race,” Harper-Harris mentioned. “You win, you lose, you walk out of there — you still shake hands.”

The invoice may even require the CIF to report back to the suitable coverage committees of the Legislature and the governor on its analysis and accountability actions undertaken each three years.

AB 1327 is about for a listening to within the Assembly Education Committee on Wednesday, April 26. It would go into impact Jan. 1, 2024, if it makes it by the legislative course of and is signed into regulation by Gov. Gavin Newsom.