Syracuse Basketball Gamers Put on ‘#NotAgainSU’ T-Shirts

The Syracuse males’s basketball crew stood in solidarity with their fellow college college students after a wave of racist and anti-semitic incidents have rocked the campus. 

Through the nationwide anthem, earlier than Wednesday’s (November 20) sport in opposition to Cornell, the SU males’s basketball crew wore warm-up T-shirts with the hashtag #NotAgainSU based on Syracuse.com.

Tons of of college college students organized protests within the wake of ugly incidents which have marred the campus. 

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There have been a number of cases of racist graffiti, a Swastika being drawn within the snow, and the N-word being yelled at a Black pupil by fraternity members. The latter incident led to the suspension of the fraternity’s actions. 

The official SU males’s basketball Twitter account posted a photograph of the shirt with a quote from junior star Elijah Hughes.

“As a crew we need to present assist for our fellow college students and all those that are working towards making certain a secure and welcoming neighborhood,” the quote learn.

The protesters should not merely protesting the incidents, because the hashtag additionally represents attitudes in the direction of the college’s responses to those incidents. 

Many individuals of shade inside the Syracuse neighborhood really feel any such habits is fostered by a tradition that’s not welcoming to marginalized teams.

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In an incident in February of this 12 months, Black college students who have been assaulted stated the assailants used racial slurs in the course of the assault. 

Regardless of the victims’ claims and a number of eyewitness accounts, college police stated the act was not “race based mostly.”