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OU football journal: Lincoln Riley hopes players use platform for change after video

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Just a few months after Lincoln Riley arrived at Oklahoma in 2015, a video of fraternity members doing a racist chant emerged and the football team was a big part of the university's response.

After another racist video — this time from an OU sorority member — emerged last week, Riley said he hoped his players would again be central to the response on campus.

“I hope so,” Riley said Sunday. “I think it's a great thing. It's powerful. No doubt the platform exists, and it's an important issue. It's important to all of us.