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Nick Saban is no stranger to witnessing protests of injustice

We are six months into 2020 and there are many desires for the year to end.

As a nation, we have faced heart-wrenching circumstances that range from deaths of influential people to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. In the span of a few months, our eyes have beheld the murders of three African Americans – Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd – due to racial injustice and police brutality.

Both peaceful and radical protests have occurred and the dialogue created by this reached the powers at the University of Alabama.

Members such as Dr.