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Is Jacory Harris Soft?

By Jonathan Hoskins On September - 23 - 2010

Jacory Harris received racially charged tweets this week after Miami's loss to Ohio State—an absolutely horrid and deplorable act by a narrow minded individual calling himself Motown305 on Twitter.

What's even more disturbing than the act itself is the way that it seems to be getting to Harris. Even more disturbing than THAT, is that we even know about it at all! What point does it serve the general public to know about this incident?

Long-time friend and high school team mate Marcus Forston was quoted as saying that the Hurricanes' starting quarterback was visibly shaken all week. My question is why? This person, judging by the caliber of vocabulary he used in preceding tweets, obviously has no idea to the struggles of African Americans and his allegiances don't travel any further than the football fields.

I am a die-hard Hurricanes fan and have been since the age of 7, when I first watched the '86 squad get off the plane in military fatigues like they owned the entire country west of the Mississippi. Even though they lost that game, the way they came out the follow...

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