{"id":5888,"date":"2020-06-11T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-mike-anderson-is-helping-st-johns-fight-racial-injustice\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T03:08:00","slug":"how-mike-anderson-is-helping-st-johns-fight-racial-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-mike-anderson-is-helping-st-johns-fight-racial-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Mike Anderson is helping St. John\u2019s fight racial injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How Mike Anderson is helping St. John\u2019s fight racial injustice<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n For days, Mike Anderson couldn\u2019t sleep.<\/p>\n

The death of George Floyd, following the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, had led to civil unrest in America, protests nationwide in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. And for the St. John\u2019s coach \u2014 one of two black Division I head coaches in the state \u2014 racial injustice weighed heavily on his mind. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like murder, you could see it on TV,\u201d he said. \u201cIt touched my soul without a doubt. I went through the range of emotions. Anger, frustration, what can I do? \u2026 I was really, really hurt by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

His players, most of them black, felt similar emotions, he said. Some of them have been involved in protests, though Anderson declined to single them out specifically.<\/p>\n

They have had four team-wide Zoom sessions since the season abruptly ended on March 12 after the first half of a Big East Tournament quarterfinal game<\/a> against Creighton, and during some of the sessions, the team has specifically discussed the issues of racial inequality and police brutality. Ironically, during one of them, David Caraher, a white player, was one of the first players to speak up. He preached unity, the need for everyone to work together to make a difference and be part of the solution.<\/p>\n

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With that in mind, the 60-year-old Anderson said he plans to have the entire team register to vote and said that there will not be any basketball activities on Nov. 3, announcements other programs have made recently as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout a doubt, we\u2019ll be first in line,\u201d said Anderson, who previously served as the first black head coach at Missouri. \u201cOur concentration will be getting to those polls.\u201d <\/p>\n

That is only part of the plan Anderson has in mind. He wants his players to get out even more in the community and serve as role models. Every season since he\u2019s become a head coach, Anderson has had a high-ranking member of the police department meet with his players, in an effort to provide them with a different perspective. He\u2019s spent his free time recently meeting and talking to public officials in the area and in his home state of Alabama, looking for ways to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a black coach, so obviously I\u2019ve lived what we\u2019re seeing,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m in a position where I can try to make a difference \u2014 and try to make a difference through my players. \u2026 It\u2019s an awesome responsibility, and it\u2019s one that I welcome.\u201d <\/p>\n

He\u2019s dealt with racism up close. Anderson grew up in Birmingham, Ala., one of the epicenters of the civil rights movement. He remembered not going to restaurants until he was in his late teens. Blacks lived on one side of town and whites the other. In his neighborhood, hospitals were impoverished, and schools were underfunded. As a black coach, he saw limited opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could write a book on that,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cAnd then you got to remember now also, I was on the front line for a Hall of Fame coach in Nolan Richardson, who\u2019s been the first black coach at a majority white institution to go in there, so you can imagine all the things that took place even with him at Arkansas.\u201d <\/p>\n

The players seem to app<\/a>reciate what they have in Anderson. Incoming junior college recruit Isaih Moore recently tweeted, \u201cProud to say I\u2019m going to play for a African American Head Basketball Coach.\u201d Greg Williams Sr., the father of rising junior guard Greg Williams, said: \u201cIt provides a certain level of security, when you have a coach that has experience and can provide that guidance and tell you some things you might experience and some things you might need to do if you go through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Anderson has been encouraged by the diversity at the protests. It\u2019s not just black men and women protesting. There are demonstrators from all walks of life coming together, in all 50 states. He has painted this as a positive development to his players. But more work needs to be done to rectify systemic racism, injustice and inequality in the healthcare system, education, police reform and disparity in jobs and salaries, he believes.<\/p>\n

His message to his players? <\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s continue to push the envelope in the right direction, evolve and we can make a change. [My team has] talked about coming back to the school and hopefully becoming a part of the solution. Do their part, that\u2019s the biggest thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a moment,\u201d Anderson added, \u201cwhere we can change the world.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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