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Opinion: As former Clemson player calls out Dabo Swinney, now is time for open race discussions

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Now is the time to get it out in the open, college football players. Get it all out.

Every racially insensitive incident that was swept under the rug, every coach who didn’t have your back when words and actions crossed the line that should never be crossed. Let’s hear about them. Let’s talk about them. Let’s learn from them.

That conversation was started Tuesday when former Clemson receiver Kanyon Tuttle broke the cone of silence around one of America’s top college football programs and tweeted about an incident where a member of Dabo Swinney’s staff used a racial epithet against a player and was not disciplined for doing so.