Nebraska basketball team bands together to protest White Nationalist

The Nebraska basketball team took to social media in order to protest the fact that there is an avowed White Nationalist on the UNL campus.

The University of Nebraska has been dealing with a bit of a problem lately. On Thursday night, the Nebraska basketball team waded into the middle of it.

The Huskers took to Twitter as one team last night in order to voice their displeasure about a White Nationalist living on the UNL campus. They didn’t address the student by name, or even made it entirely clear to those who weren’t following closely what their posts were about.

What they did do, is go on Twitter and post a one sentence protest, “hate will never win.” Most of the players made it that simple.

Some, like Jordy Tshimanga gave it their own spin. The important part of the protest was the entire team made it clear they weren’t going to let a kid, who has been recorded as saying he wants to be violent, say those kinds of things without a little push back.

The Twitter posts weren’t the first time a member of the basketball program showed his displeasure with the situation. During a rally on the college’s campus earlier in the week, a keen photographer caught sight of head coach Tim Miles in attendance.

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The rally was peaceful and meant only to show the students (and faculty) were not pleased someone who called himself the “most active White Nationalist in Nebraska” was attending school in Lincoln.

For its part, the University has voiced its displeasure at the student’s stance as well. Unfortunately, the school has also said removing him for the video alone would be a violation of his first amendment rights.

Since he has not been violent, only expressing an interest in violence, he hasn’t done enough to get kicked off campus. For his part, Nebraska basketball head coach Tim Miles made it clear he loved the fact that his players were taking a stand with a tweet of his own.