Texas linebacker DeMarvion Overshown will sit out “all team activities” until “real action” is taken regarding Longhorn’s players’ demands for inclusiveness at the university.
“We have been told that things are being done behind close doors but have yet to see any changes,” Overshown wrote in a tweet. “We are constantly preached urgency throughout the program and I feel that the university should be held to the same standard,” ESPN reports.
It’s urgent? They should take his scholarship away.
Imagine receiving a scholarship from one of the best programs in the country, accepting it without qualification, and then one day saying the school is not inclusive enough and he won’t fulfill his obligations.
It’s not 1964, someone please tell this young man.
He wrote, “…this is something I’m very passionate about and I can not continue to perform for a program that doesn’t show me the same love and support I do for them.”
LAST MONTH’S FIASCO
Dozens of Longhorn athletes issued an unsigned, two-page statement requesting the school rename several campus buildings named after school officials with ties to its segregationist past.
They also said the school should stop using “The Eyes of Texas,” which once allegedly had ties to minstrel shows with characters in blackface in the early 1900s.
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It’s always sung at games. It’s a great song. No one even knew about this alleged history, and how are they responsible for other people who sang their song?
They also want diverse statues designed only by people of color. They want Black athletic history in the school’s Hall of Honor and they have called for renaming part of the stadium after the first Black player.
The university president met with the team last month to listen to their ‘frustrations.’
Junior linebacker Juwan Mitchell said after the meeting that he did not “feel comfortable representing the University of Texas” in a tweet that has since been deleted. “It seems they only have our front but not our backs. People who want to create change don’t care how much money can be lost, don’t care about who hates them or any bad outcomes that may happen. The only thing on your mind should be equality.”
These privileged young men — who get to play a sport they love while on a scholarship with a chance at the pros — are oppressed. The only idea I like at all, although it’s divisive is the Hall of Honor. We shouldn’t be singling out people by race. It’s obscene, but it’s nice to make them feel better.
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— DeMarvion Overshown (@dee_overshown6) July 2, 2020
Don’t wanna play unless demands are met? Make an example of him, and anybody else who doesn’t seem to understand why they are in that university. Including students who protest proclaiming life is unfair, or something.
Time for a wake up call to the little darlings. They don’t run the world, nor will they ever. Trying to extort(blackmail) the administrators into giving into their pie in the sky wishes and dreams needs to end. Same goes for the profs, et al, who are not teaching what they were hired to impart to the mushheads in their classes.
Alumni donors and others who contribute to the various programs at the universities need to step up to the plate and stop supporting this nonsense That includes the American taxpayers.
Enough is enough. Allowing children to call the shots is total stupidity. Stop it now.
Who needs them? Recruit new players to replace them and send them packing. Better yet,just close down the football program and get back to the basics of education.
I believe he should indeed, sit out the whole year. Going to actual classes will probably help him get a real job, as his visions of millionaire-hood from the Pro’s will quickly evaporate….But…ya’ know, ya’ gotta’ do what your conscience tells you to. Enjoy the time off the team…….
And, DeMarvion….did ya’ check the fine print of your scholarship, about non-performance and stuff like that…..??
Personally, I’m not a Burnt Orange Hook’em Horns kinda guy, so I wouldn’t care if the WHOLE TEAM took a year (or more) OFF. I won’t allow it on any of my TV’s anyway – after any one of them kneels for the first time….
This boy is probably on a football scholarship. If he or any other player refuses to play they are violating the terms of their scholarship and need to be expelled.
Changing the heritage here to help bolster the self-esteem of so-called underprivileged athletes, who go into the NFL to make millions is a damn shame.