Texas A&M quarterback Kellen Mond called for the removal of the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue from the the school's campus in a tweet posted Tuesday:
According to ESPN's Dave Wilson, the "Sully" statue is situated in the center of campus in College Station, Texas. The statue was erected in 1919 to honor Ross, who served as the school's president from 1891 to 1898.
Ross was also the 19th governor of Texas and served as a general for the confederacy during the Civil War.
As part of his tweet, Mond wrote about Ross' enslaving and killing Indians, wounding and killing black people and saying, "I would not recognize negroes as soldiers.