Texas football coach Tom Herman said he empathizes with black student-athletes and the double standard that he says fans have regarding them: If you're going to cheer for players of color on the field, that feeling shouldn't change once they're off.
Discussing race relations in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman on Monday, Herman said he knows that something as simple as being pulled over for making an illegal U-turn can be a very different experience for him, compared to his black student-athletes."I will never know, you will never know, none of us will ever know what it's like to have that genuine fear," Herman told the American-Statesman.
Read More"We're going to pack 100,000 people into and millions watch on TV that are predominantly white -- not all of them certainly, but most of 'em white," Herman told the American-Statesman."We're gonna cheer when they score touchdowns, and we're gonna hug our buddy when they get sacks or an interception."But we gonna let them date our daughter? Are we going to hire them in a position of power in our company? That's the question I have for America.
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