.edgeofsports: It appears that BYU has a racist past with which it refuses to reckon.
The collegiate athletes who brought attention to these politics in the late 1960s and 1970s through activism paid a heavy price. On Oct. 14, 1969,football team were kicked off the squad for requesting to be a part of a demonstration with the Black Student Alliance against the Latter Day Saints before an upcoming game against BYU.
BYU is the source of a multitude of stories like these. The University of Texas, El Paso, at the time one of the best track and field programs in the country, included future 1968 Olympian and long-jumping legend Bob Beamon. Nine of these scholarship athletes, including Beamon, were kicked off the team for refusing to play BYU.
Duke itself certainly has its own ugly history of racism in sports. It is utterly unacceptable that Duke Coach Jolene Nagel did not pull her entire team off the court until this had been dealt with and removed. When I grew up playing rec ball, a white kid on the other team yelled a racial slur and my coach pulled us all off the field until there was an apology and ejection. That was 30 years ago so this isn’t some radical zoomer woke concept.
It appears that BYU has a past with which it refuses to reckon, meaning it has a present that still contains this element of rot. If there was ever a place that needed a reckoning, it is Brigham Young. And if this happens, it will be because a sophomore named Rachel Richardson and her teammates decided to be the only adults in the room.
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