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This week, the Michigan Wolverines football program was hit with quite a scandal after head coach Jim Harbaugh hired Shemy Schembechler, the son of legendary Michigan coach Bo Schembechler. The hiring was controversial enough given recent revelations that Bo Schembechler allegedly helped cover up sexual assault while at Michigan, but Shemy Schembechler’s social media use caused even more red flags.

Shortly after Shemy Schembechler was hired by Michigan, it was revealed that he had “liked” several Twitter posts downplaying slavery and the Jim Crow segregation laws, with some of the posts even seeming to suggest that there was a positive takeaway from either of those events.

As a result of the social media use, Shemy Schembechler resigned from his position as a support staffer at Michigan just three days after he was hired. Following his departure, he released a statement apologizing for his antics.

“Any words or philosophies that in any way seek to underplay the immeasurable suffering and long-term economic and social inequities that hundreds of years of slavery and the ‘Jim Crow’ era caused for Black Americans is wrong,” Shemy Schembechler said in a statement in part. “I was wrong. We must never sanitize morally unsanitary, historical behaviors that have hindered the Black community, or any other community. There are no historical silver linings for the experience of our brothers and sisters.”

Shemy Schembechler previously worked as an NFL scout, most recently with the Las Vegas Raiders. He also worked for the Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks, Washington Commanders and Kansas City Chiefs during his career.

[Heather Dinich]