(Auburn University’s men’s basketball coach, Bruce Pearl, scrutinized VP Kamala Harris, leading others to warn Black student-athletes about potentially playing for him after a controversial social media post. The white head coach of one of the top men’s college basketball programs in the nation has sparked calls for Black players he’s recruiting to consider being student-athletes elsewhere. Auburn University head coach Bruce Pearl’s fateful commentary on Monday morning offered a sharp rebuke of Vice President Kamala Harris while employing a term that critics say conservative Republicans have turned into a racist dog whistle. At the same time, the underlying suggestion behind the post was that Pearl supports Harris’ opponent, Donald Trump, a man who has spent decades demeaning and racially discriminating against Black people.
According to NewsOne, Pearl quoted a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, of Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who shared a screenshot of a 2019 NBC News article about Harris’ plans to privatize health insurance. “Thank you for pointing this out Senator Cotton, except my guess is that like many of her socialist, woke progressive beliefs she’s now changing them or hiding them to get elected! We won’t get fooled again!” Pearl wrote in a post shared on his official X account on Monday.
