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Especially poignant excerpt from the piece:
"Harris isn’t surprised that his team’s actions have been, in his words, “pushed under the rug,” since he left. Not after he felt the anger and frustration directed at his team from alumni.
Edwards, though, has seen how perception changes as time passes. In 2005, he saw San Jose State erect a statue of John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising their fists in a Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. Last year, players from Wyoming’s Black 14 — football players who were dismissed from the 1969 team for asking to wear black armbands against BYU — were welcomed back for a reunion. Ten Indiana football players boycotted in 1969, and the next year, nine players at Syracuse protested. Syracuse didn’t formally apologize to the players until 2006. It took Indiana until 2015 to reconcile.
Edwards believes that, with time, something similar will happen at Missouri."
Especially poignant excerpt from the piece:
"Harris isn’t surprised that his team’s actions have been, in his words, “pushed under the rug,” since he left. Not after he felt the anger and frustration directed at his team from alumni.
Edwards, though, has seen how perception changes as time passes. In 2005, he saw San Jose State erect a statue of John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising their fists in a Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. Last year, players from Wyoming’s Black 14 — football players who were dismissed from the 1969 team for asking to wear black armbands against BYU — were welcomed back for a reunion. Ten Indiana football players boycotted in 1969, and the next year, nine players at Syracuse protested. Syracuse didn’t formally apologize to the players until 2006. It took Indiana until 2015 to reconcile.
Edwards believes that, with time, something similar will happen at Missouri."
