Cries For Social Justice Changing The Dynamics

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For basketball coaches at A&T and UNCG, outcry for justice a teachable moment
Jeff Mills [e-mail]


N.C. A&T's Will Jones was the MEAC's 2020 coach of the year.
H. Scott Hoffmann /News & Record

GREENSBORO — Their schools are different. Their teams are different. Their leagues are different. Their skin color is different.

And yet, in this moment in time, the basketball coaches at UNCG and N.C. A&T have a lot in common.

Wes Miller and Will Jones are communicators as well as coaches. And they’ve talked openly and often with their players about justice in the time before and since the remarkable strikes by pro athletes that started with the Milwaukee Bucks' refusal to take the court for an NBA playoff game Wednesday.

The Bucks were protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., on Sunday. They started a movement that has spread to soccer and baseball, hockey and tennis, trickling down to college sports practices.

“Our universities have an unbelievable rivalry,” A&T’s Jones said, “but now is a time for unity in a larger sense.”

A&T has a history of protest for social justice. There’s a statue of four bronze figures on the university’s front lawn that speaks to past and present.

“With us being an HBCU, the Black experience in America is really a part of who we are already,” Jones said Friday. “We’re different. When we meet and come together at events, we’ll play the Black national anthem — ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ — things like that.

For the rest of the story:
greensboro.com/sports/college/for-basketball-coaches-at-a-t-and-uncg-outcry-for-justice-a-teachable-moment/article_732644a2-e972-11ea-a543-038d9550c08c.html

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[numberonebrave]

Some of Ed Hardin's readers are giving him hell

[Freeze]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEfFvPIDqyus2vmO6R652e60lp6yzvj2fI9A6s0

[lobengula]

Well anytime you speak truth and make people uncomfortable there is always negativism. But in spite of this and because of this the Change that Sam Cook sang about has got to come. I think that we got to elevate the contradictions by petitioning the UN world body as a human rights violation with the intersection of the Palestine question due to the training by the Israelis police/soldiers which will have to be the next stage of this movement for justice

[da heretic]

That's a great analysis, petitioning the UN, Lobengula. Malcolm X said the same thing.

As for the Hardin article, what did he expect? This is Amerikkka.

[jeywall10]

The UN has become a talking head and has not accomplished anything meaningful in 50 years other than promoting the agenda of the new world order. Hell no to the UN!