They needed to be heard.
The Missouri State football team did not practice on Thursday, Aug. 27, and on Friday the team held a march protesting racism in America and on Missouri State’s campus.
Senior safety Titus Wall and senior cornerback Zack Sanders organized the march and day without practice, with the support of the Bears’ coaching staff.
“What can we do to make everything stop and make all the injustice treatment stop?” Sanders asked. “We want to show that we’re coming together as a team, we’re coming together as a university.”
These protests by the team are a part of a larger movement in American sports happening after the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Aug.