One month after Rachel Richardson, a Black volleyball player from Duke University, spoke out alleging the use of racist slurs by spectators during a match at Brigham Young University, another report of racism against visiting athletes at BYU has come out.
The Guardian published a report Friday stating that five women’s soccer players from an unnamed school had the n-word chanted at them when they chose to kneel for the national anthem during a game at BYU in 2021.
The players said they knelt as protest for racial and social injustice – a common practice among athletes – when they began hearing the slurs.
“I just remember that there was like a consistent chant of ‘stand up, n-words’ during the anthem and right after,” one of the five players told the Guardian. “And when brought to the attention of the BYU coaching staff there was no real response or sense of, like, alarm.”
The four other players individually confirmed the use of racist slurs by BYU spectators to the Guardian.
The Guardian reached out to Jon McBride, BYU’s associate athletic director for communications and media strategy, for comment, and he provided the following statement:
“Your inquiry is the first time we are hearing this specific concern. [At]…
