Missouri State head men's basketball coach Dana Ford posted his first tweet in response to the death of George Floyd and the accompanying protests around the country.
"Talk is cheap. It’s 2020 we are way passed words (statements)," Ford wrote. "Until the rich powerful non-blacks want systematic racism uprooted and destroyed we will continue the cycle of denial and deception in which America was built.#GeorgeFloyd #BreonaTaylor #AhmaudArbery #BlackLivesMatter"
Ford joins other major Missouri State athletics coaches to speak out recently against racial injustice in America.
Women's basketball coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton, who is the first African-American female head coach for any sport in Missouri State's history, wrote on Twitter she is "sick and tired of being sick and tired" while also writing that racism will continue "until we all are ready to step up and be the change we wish to see.