AUSTIN – The Texas Longhorns chose not to practice Thursday, opting instead to hold an open discussion amongst players and coaches about social injustice and inequality, four days after the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.. The team will resume practicing this weekend.
UT was one of several FBS programs that either nixed practice or saw players stage a walkout as a growing contingent of student-athletes lend their voices to the Black Lives Matter movement. Just up the road in Waco, members of Baylor’s team marched across campus following a team meeting and prayer. And players from a pair of SEC teams, Kentucky and Mississippi State, boycotted practice.
A number of Longhorns have grown more outspoken and socially engaged since George Floyd’s death ignited a nationwide social justice movement. The football team in June marched to the State Capitol to honor Floyd and protest police brutality and racial injustice, and several have remained engaged with the Black Lives Matter movement since.
““The march really was just powerful for me, just to have everybody behind this movement,” Texas junior safety Caden Sterns said a couple weeks after the team’s march. “It is something that’s really going on in society, and I think everybody’s starting to acknowledge it at least. And just to show that that we support Black Lives Matter as a team and unity is really important.
“And the biggest message, like coach (Tom Herman) said, is that this protest and marching can’t be the end result. It just serves as a symbol that there will be change. Now it’s time for action.”
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