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Nebraska regent wants protesting football players kicked off team
One Nebraska Board of Regents member wants players who chose to kneel in protest during the national anthem kicked off of the team, the Lincoln Journal-Star reports.
Cornhusker players Michael Rose-Ivey, DaiShon Neal and Mohamed Barry chose to peacefully protest racial injustice in America during the playing of the song ahead of Nebraska’s game at Northwestern. 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began the wave of protests in the NFL, that have since spread across sports as players choose to express their opinions on the national matter, including police brutality toward minorities.
Hal Daub, a university regent and former mayor of Omaha told the Journal-Star that he disagreed strongly with their decision, citing “poor judgment” and calling it “copycat conduct.”
“It’s a free country,” Daub told the Journal Star on Tuesday. “They don’t have to play football for the university either.
"They know better, and they had better be kicked off the team," he added. "They won’t take the risk to exhibit their free speech in a way that places their circumstance in jeopardy, so let them get out of uniform and do their protesting on somebody else’s nickel."
Daub continued: “Those publicity seeking athletes ought to rethink the forum in which they chose to issue their personal views at the expense of everyone else."
Rose-Ivey told reporters on Monday that he and his teammates decided to kneel to call attention to “policies and laws that discriminate and hinder the growth and opportunity of people of color, low income people, women and other marginalized communities.”
“To make it clear, I am not anti-police, I’m not anti-military, nor am I anti-American,” Rose-Ivey explained. “I love my country deeply.”
Daub, who is white, added that he felt “personally offended” by the players’ decision.
- Jeremy Woo
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