Mike Boynton is Oklahoma State’s lone African-American head coach, and he took to Twitter on Friday to speak his mind on a national topic involving race.
George Floyd died in Minnesota on Monday after a police officer pinned Floyd to the pavement with his knee on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes. The incident, one of many instances over the past few years of a police officer killing a black man, incited protests turned riots across the country, mainly in Minnesota.
In his statement, Boynton not only addresses Floyd’s death, but he also eloquently relates what happened in Minnesota to being a black man and a father to black children, particularly with his son Ace, in America.