Speaking Saturday at a demonstration against racial injustice in downtown Greenville, former Clemson football player Shaquille Anthony said he is “disappointed” coach Dabo Swinney has…
Speaking Saturday at a demonstration against racial injustice in downtown Greenville, former Clemson football player Shaquille Anthony said he is “disappointed” coach Dabo Swinney has failed to speak out about an assistant’s coach’s use of a racial slur during practice three years ago.
“I am disappointed. I can’t speak on why he hasn’t said more,” Anthony told The Greenville News at a march of about 300 people, a rally named with a question, “Am I a threat even in a suit?”
“Black Lives Matter — that’s what we need to focus on right now,” Anthony said. “And anything pertaining to Black Lives Matter needs to be addressed in a respectable way, in a conscious way.”
Anthony, a Wren High School graduate who played for Clemson in 2012 and 2013 before transferring to Tennessee State, said he “really liked” Swinney. Anthony described the championship-winning leader of the Tigers as a “good coach and a man of God.”
He also said that he expects Swinney and Clemson University “will do what is right.
