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
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