As President Barack Obama spoke in Newtown, Conn. on Sunday night about the horrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, North Alabama football player Bradley Patterson thought the appropriate response was to tweet out a horribly racist comment about Obama.

And, in turn, North Alabama thought the appropriate response to that was to publicly tell everyone they had booted Patterson off the team.

Thank you, North Alabama.

Unfortunately, as Deadspin has documented, Patterson wasn't alone in tweeting racist comments during the president's speech.