Racism

"Resign!" howled Sepp Blatter's critics in England after the FIFA boss spouted ill-timed and offensive views on racism in soccer.

Easy. Too easy.

It's the sort of thing many people would agree with. But simply saying something is unpleasant doesn't make it go away.

That takes action. And, in that regard, soccer has failed. Miserably.

AUSTIN, Texas — Eleven years ago, when the NAACP stepped up a campaign to remove the Confederate battle flag from statehouses and other government buildings across the South, it found an opponent in Rick Perry.

OGDEN -- If you traveled to a foreign land and strangers on the street looked you over, what would they say about you behind your back?

And what if you handed them a marker and asked them to write impressions, good or bad, on the back of your T-shirt?

OGDEN -- Don Benally never saw anything especially wrong with using American Indians as sports mascots. One of the schools on the Arizona Navajo reservation where he grew up was home of the Warriors.

"We had other mascots, like the eagles and the mustangs," said Benally, now an Ogden resident and Weber State University nursing student. "Everybody was Native American there, and it was something we took pride in. It was when I left the reservation I found that people were using terms for Indians in derogatory ways."

SANDY -- A Utah high school principal has quit amid a racial bias and discrimination probe stemming from a student's appearance wearing a white pointed Ku Klux Klan-style hood at a school spirit assembly two weeks ago.