that s it. new ball. shots are 2-2. got by him. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs but a new, young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially an african american context. does still persist in the world about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletes. i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketballs. and the challenge now is to convince young black athletes that the
freed of kidnap charge. emmett till was beaten, mutilated, murdered. if you are black and my age and borp in america you know who emmett till. is even if you re ill literal. in the south if you got angry too quickly your life would be in danger. it was a deferent realist to a black kid than to a northern kid. we went to play tennis at a public school and the football team was throughout that day. i never heard nigger so much in my life. when i went down south i didn t know you could never really be seen again why that s what happened with emmett till. the incident with emmett till