Ann Arbor — This was about using their platform as college athletes, opening eyes, sharing a cause, and bringing awareness to racial inequality in this country.
Hunter Reynolds, a Michigan football player, didn’t know what to expect when he and Tariq Speights, a linebacker at Eastern Michigan, organized a Black Lives Matter protest on the Michigan campus Sunday in response to the latest police shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, shot seven times in the back by Kenosha, Wis., police a week ago.
After Reynolds spoke, telling the hundreds of students and student-athletes from Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Wayne State and Concordia, as well as EMU football coach Chris Creighton who attended, that they are using their “voices to not allow the status quo to continue,” they began their march through campus.