Loss of Shay is telling
The firing of Jason Shay speaks volumes about the mindset of many people of East Tennessee and the administration at ETSU as well.
The fans reaction to Coach Shayâs kneeling with his players in displaying total disgust with law enforcementâs brutality on black people was an act of love for his players. They kneel because it has been shown over and over again that the police will escalate the situation to get their own adrenaline charge going when they deal with minor situations with black people. They have been seen on film going all the way up to murdering unarmed black men.
Protesting is a right
My family has fought in every war back to the Revolutionary War and in the U.S.A. it is an individualâs right to peacefully protest.
In taking a knee, no harm is being done, nothing but young men saying, please listen to the pain, please pay attention to the injustice.
If you have to be offended, be so about veterans going homeless.
Be so about our elderly being cold and hungry.
Be so about brown or black people being shot in the back or having their neck choked by a knee.
Having worked for ETSU for over 20 years, and am an alumna, I fully support Coach Shay and the players.
East Tennessee State University s basketball team provoked uproar on February 16, when, prior to a game at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, they all knelt for the national anthem.