{"id":5152,"date":"2020-06-11T08:53:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2020-06-11T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:53:49","slug":"top-liberty-university-basketball-player-set-to-transfer-due-to-racial-insensitivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5152","title":{"rendered":"Top Liberty University basketball player set to transfer due to &#8220;racial insensitivities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display: block\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-ns\" src=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/resources\/media\/eb02503d-ad02-4596-a4f2-eb4ea9559ddf-large16x9_imagecompasiatodd.png?1591865377027\" \/><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Liberty University in Lynchburg is losing one of its best student athletes, Sophomore Asia Todd, plays guard on Liberty University&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Basketball team. Todd announced she will be transferring from the school.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on twitter, she says the decision had nothing to do with basketball or the program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the racial insensitivities shown within the leadership and culture it simply does not align with my moral compass or personal convictions, therefore I did what I felt was best within my heart and stand up for what is right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BDD37YoQe7s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/top-liberty-university-basketball-player-set-to-transfer-due-to-racial-insensitivities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University in Lynchburg is losing one of its best student athletes, Sophomore Asia Todd, plays guard on Liberty University&#8217;s Women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5152\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Liberty University basketball player set to transfer due to &#8220;racial insensitivities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-top-liberty-university-basketball-player-set-to-transfer-due-to-racial-insensitivities","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1l6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}