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
that s it. [ applause ] 2-2. 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 forth between white baselines 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 in an african american context. there does still persist in the world myths about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletics. some people think we are all brawn and no brains. and i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketb
Figures that black people looked to as role models. so we in the olympic project for human rights were advocating boycotts like kareem ab dull jab before did. we try to point out the futility of the olympics. some of the negro athletes said that you will have trouble mounting this boycott. i think it is a matter of educating people. to thinking politically. civil rights era was in full bloom. it was a new breed of black man coming. demonstrations such as thomas smith and john carlos did, shut down of racist institutions. nothing i would like better than to see it shut down completely. when i contacted arthur the
Means is necessary. and i think one means that s necessary is the black athlete in this country. athletes were the heroic figures that black people looked to as role models. so we in the olympic project for human rights were advocating boycotts such as kareem abdul-jabbar did. basically, we re trying to point out the futility of going to the olympics and then come back here and deal with oppression and subjugation. some of the negro athletes that i talked to said you re going to have trouble mounting this kind of boycott against the olympics. i think it s just a matter of educating people to accustom black athletes to thinking politically. the civil rights era was in full bloom. it was a new breed of black man coming. demonstrations such as tommy smith and john carlos did