"Seventeen Republican West Virginia senators have penned a letter to the presidents of Marshall University and West Virginia University regarding controversies involving the coronavirus and protests of racial injustice.

In a letter dated Sunday, Sept. 20, Sen. Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, and 16 other Republicans from the upper chamber, addressed comments from a Marshall University professor on the coronavirus and the West Virginia University football team placing stickers on their helmets in support of Black Lives Matter. The letter was addressed to Marshall University President Jerome Gilbert and West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee.

“I find it disturbing that West Virginia University and Marshall University resources are being used to promote the very same hate speech that is inciting riots, assassination of police officers, and denigration of our Republic,” Tarr wrote in the letter. “To this point, West Virginia has been very blessed that our citizens have not accepted this anarchist behavior. That does not mean we are immune to it.”

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