During Rashaad O’Neal’s was junior year, he was going into the locker room for football period and that is when he saw the black doll hanging by a noose.  When he started to look around, everyone was laughing, not a single person took O’Neal’s side. No, this did not occur in the 1960s, this happened around 2005.

“That’s when I realized no one on my team had my back,” O’Neal said, vexed by his story. “I was a walking joke to them. All I heard...