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Texas boosters, Greg McDermott and others in college sports are telling us who they are. I hope Black student-athletes listen


Shalise Manza Young·Yahoo Sports Columnist
Wed, March 3, 2021, 1:47 PM


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Part of the reason that the current generation of teenagers and young people are so effective at organizing marches or protests or even parties (when those are allowed again) is because they have grown up with social media.

They're on it all the time, between TikTok, Twitch, Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram, sending out and digesting thousands of images a week.

And this week alone, aspiring student athletes are seeing these things on those apps and elsewhere:

University of Texas athletics boosters threatening to pull financial donations if the school doesn't make it crystal clear that "The Eyes of Texas," the school's antiquated fight song that has racist origins, will continue being sung by players and fans as per tradition

Creighton men's basketball head coach Greg McDermott admitting to using the never-heard-before and hopefully-never-ever-heard-again words "I need everybody to stay on the plantation. I can’t have anybody leave the plantation,” supposedly for the first time ever, when addressing his players, half of whom are Black, during a recent loss

And this video of a white Louisiana-Lafayette strength and conditioning coach literally walking on football players, all but two of them Black, as they do wall-sits with 45-pound plates, which is just a little too on the nose of how many NCAA programs see their student-athletes: ....