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Swinney: ‘We should no longer expect them… to hear our cheers if we do not hear their cries.’

Dabo Swinney is listening to his players, and the Clemson head coach said it is time everyone else does the same.

“I am embarrassed to say that there are things on this campus that I really did not understand. I knew the basics, but not the details. But I have learned, and I have listened,” Swinney said Saturday at the Clemson Community Peaceful Demonstration at Bowman Field.

Swinney joined his football players and 3,000 others for a peaceful march through campus in their stance against racial injustice and police brutality. The demonstration came a day after Clemson’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted to remove the name of John C.