After using Twitter to affect the change in the Oklahoma state soccer program, running back Chuba Hubbard is pulling away from social media.
Annoyed that his social media accounts became “a playground for hate,” Hubbard reactivated his Twitter account, @Hubbard_RMN, on Tuesday when he wrote a message saying he won’t use social media “until further notice.”
The Cowboys’ star running back Hubbard had deleted his Twitter account Monday, hours after posting three consecutive tweets criticizing and calling for the resignation of Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater.
Protesters marched outside Prater’s office on Monday, upset with Prater for filing terrorism charges against some protesters and for evicting Edmond police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a naked black teenager, Isaiah Lewis, last year. .
Hubbard posted the tweets about Prater on Monday afternoon. At the end of the day, her Twitter account was deactivated. But he reactivated it and published the message on Tuesday.
“I never incited or promoted violence or hatred,” he wrote. “All I have done is express my opinion on issues that I feel are unethical!”
Since George Floyd’s death in May, Hubbard had become active in discussing social and racial issues on Twitter, and had become a voice in the fight for the empowerment of college athletes.
“I will continue to play soccer at the highest level! That will never stop! But I will also not stop pushing for what I feel is right,” he wrote. That said, I have noticed that my social media has become a playground for hate. That is the last thing I wanted to happen! You will hear me. You will see me. You will feel me. “
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