Virginia Tech women’s basketball coach says Black men belong in sport
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 31, 2023
Days after he was hired at Virginia Tech, Kenny Brooks made a proclamation he later worried might have doubled as him sticking his foot in his mouth.
“If Syracuse can go to to the Final Four, why not us?” he cried to applause.
His point was if Syracuse, not known as a women’s basketball power, could reach the promised land, so could Virginia Tech.
Brooks wasn’t talking about his race. But that parallel couldn’t be denied, either. In 2016, then-Syracuse coach . . .
