I think when you're the one white guy on the team and your teammates have a bunch of messages along the lines of "equality," "BLM" etc, it comes across a certain way when you go with "Education Reform."
He’s the one white guy on the team?
You're right, I forgot about Theis. Theis gets it.
Look, "Education Reform" is a super vague phrase that can mean almost anything you want it to. So on the face of it, it's fine.
I would say though that it's kind of an odd one to be included in the list of approved messages since in America "education reform" often means something very different (see: Betsy DeVos).
In the context of Gordo being the pasty white guy from Indiana with the 1940s style comb over hair-do on a team of mostly black athletes, it looks a certain kinda way.
And that's not just me, the immediate and widespread reaction on Twitter was "One of these things is not like the others!"