Posted on 06/18/2020 12:45:34 PM PDT by C19fan
Texas linebacker Juwan Mitchell wanted to feel supported by the Longhorns football community when he joined his teammates protesting police brutality and asked the administration to change the alma mater and rename campus buildings due to their references to racist culture.
Instead, Mitchell received backlash from some fans who considered the requests inappropriate. His opinion of Texas has changed because of that reception.
Now, Mitchell wants to play elsewhere. He wrote in a Twitter post that he considers the reaction to the team's desires indicative of a culture in which supporters only care about on-field success and not the individual wishes of student-athletes.
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but sometimes that is not going to happen..
Get the hell out you freaking whiner. Go play for HBC and see how far that gets you
The left is making it so people will never want to watch professional sports ever again.
Please kill college football, I beg you!!
Seems absurd. But, what does their Alma Mater say that he finds so offensive?
… bye.
Looks as if a paper hat and “You want fries with that?” is in this idiots future
Great go out and work for a living instead of being a pampered athlete. Join the real world, provide by a political party that has filled your head with rot.
Yes, because 100+ years of tradition and community must fall in deference to the stinkin’ snowlflakes.
Hook ‘Em
Class of ‘78
their slogan... we are the texas longhorns... cause you won’t find no injuns here.
Nothing wrong with playing for a HBC unless you want to play in front of thousands of fans instead of tens of thousands, primative weight room, and taking a bus to the game not chartered flights. If one’s only concern is the NFL the scouts will still find you.
so....it’s not enough that you have the right to protest and to speak out. Everyone else has to LOVE what you say. Otherwise you’ll take your ball and go home.
Release him from his contract. Let him go to a college in Detroit.
I dont have any sympathy for him. He got the treatment reserved for whites but probably a lot less vicious.
MrChips wrote: “Seems absurd. But, what does their Alma Mater say that he finds so offensive?”
Excellent editorial in the Wall Street Journal that speaks to your question. Essentially, Mr. Sternberg makes the comparison between today’s social outrage and hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic when inflation meant one had to use a wheelbarrow to carry enough money to buy a loaf of bread. Sternberg points out that today’s ‘woke ones’ have to continually escalate their outrage to prove their ‘wokeness’, they have reached the point even the smallest of outrages can be the focus and where all outrage is insufficient.
(A Wheelbarrow Full of Outrage by Joseph C. Sternberg) E
“a culture in which supporters only care about on-field success and not the individual wishes of student-athletes.”
ESPECIALLY big bucks alumni supporters who donate the money that keeps these teams afloat ... it’ like that at ALL football programs, Juwan ...
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