It’s an excellent statement; a powerful one.
https://twitter.com/dukembb/status/1...116171269?s=21
I’m proud of Coach K.
I don't know how to embed these social media videos here, but this was dropped within the past half hour on the official Duke MBBall twitter feed
Go to @DukeMBB...it's something. I know everyone's politics are different, but this really moved me.
It’s an excellent statement; a powerful one.
https://twitter.com/dukembb/status/1...116171269?s=21
I’m proud of Coach K.
No soup for you!
It's great. Coach K is a wonderful leader.
Stunning and brave.
Very proud right now.
Brought tears to my eyes.
I'm about to send a donation to the Emily K. Center.
And if you feel the same way. https://www.emilyk.org/get-involved/donate/
It's waaaaaaaaay past time, but I otherwise fully agree!
He speaks as a man who loves God, as a man who loves West Point, and as a man who loves this country.
He also reflects the overall values of Duke. My love for my school is about more than just basketball... it is because I believe Duke represents education and learning and thought and logic and reason, while also placing great import on being moral and responsible and reflective. I think K has always encouraged this, in his time as the Duke men’s basketball head coach, and has always embraced that Duke is about more than just sports.
And he is a teacher in every way. Coaches are teachers; they just teach a sport instead of English. But the responsibility of working with young people, of caring for them and mentoring them, is something that K has always appreciated and understood, and his love for his kids and their families is clearly at the heart of this.
I love that man. He would have made an excellent congressman/senator/president if he had chosen to pursue a career in politics.
I am very proud that Coach K represents Duke but more importantly I hope folks listen and take positive action.
Why isn't this on the other board?
You can’t get more “on the topic of Duke basketball” than Coach K making the most powerful and emotional public statement that I’ve ever heard from him, a statement that ties directly to his years and years as the Duke basketball head coach, working with people from all backgrounds, and particularly young African American men... guys like Nolan Smith and Quinn Cook and Shane Battier and Chris Carrawell and Elton Brand.
Makes sense to me that it would be discussed on the Duke basketball forum. As he said himself, it’s not a political message
Not sure. I disagree with almost everything he said. A lot of platitudes with no real discussion of what system he is claiming is racist. I doubt he has visited the blm website and read the antisemitic and anti-family messaging. I doubt he has looked at the statistical evidence that doesn't support the blm narrative.
If he wants to talk about reigning in some of the tactics that law enforcement has abused recently against everyone, I can get on board. If he wants to really talk about what really ails the black community in America I'm all for it.
All lives matter.
Hm, Coach K has never struck me as a man who is all about speaking platitudes, and certainly didn’t sound to be doing so in that video.
It would be odd to have him not treat such an important topic with sincerity, and I do not think he is the type who would put out something like that without considerable thought, education, research, and reflection.
And he was about as specific about the systems as could be on a two minute video... he mentioned a number of them. But that might be getting too close to politics.
I appreciate that statement as much as anything he has done in his time at my school.
And yes. All lives matter. You and I both know that Coach K believes that