College Athletes Are Refusing to Stay Silent

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🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Over the past two weeks, America has seen countless professional athletes speak out about racial inequality and police brutality. But increasingly, it's not just the pros who are making their voices heard. College players are becoming more and more vocal about issues of injustice within their own programs, and across campuses as well. Former Missouri safety Ian Simon was a pioneer in many ways to the current movement: he explains how he and his football teammates helped to create change in leadership at Mizzou when they threatened to boycott and not take the field. Then, ESPN's David Hale discusses why college football players are responding in ways we've never seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just coming together, walking down here for George Floyd, just protesting inequalities for African Americans.
0:08.2	And really, everybody across the world, minority-wise, just trying to make change, trying to put it into action what we talk about, and just trying to live out what we speak.
0:17.3	That was University of Missouri linebacker Nick Bolton, who, along with 60 of his teammates,
0:23.4	marched last week to protest racial injustice following the death of George Floyd.
0:28.6	College athletes across the country are speaking up.
0:32.2	But that wasn't the case just five years ago when a group of Missouri football players threatened
0:36.7	to boycott a game after a series of racially
0:39.3	charged incidents rocked their campus.
0:42.1	Today, one of the players who organized that
0:44.6	protest joins us to take stock of how
0:47.3	much things have changed.
0:49.4	Then ESPN's David Hale walks us
0:51.3	through the movement that's sweeping the college
0:53.3	sports landscape.
0:55.7	I'm Minna Kimes. It's Wednesday, June 10th. This is ESPN Daily, presented by Marathon.
1:03.9	So, Ian, we wanted to talk to you today because in many ways, what is happening across the country
1:10.2	at this moment with college athletes
1:12.7	mirrors the experience that you and your teammates had back in 2015. But first I want to ask
1:19.0	what it's been like for you right now to see all these college athletes speaking out over the last
1:24.8	couple of weeks after the killing of George Floyd.
1:28.3	It's been really inspiring. It's been really promising.
1:33.4	Ian Simon was the safety at the University of Missouri from 2011 to 2015.
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