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
And collected in the face of difficulty on the tennis court. dr. johnson assumed that the black kids would be scrutinized more intensely and that you had to give the white tournament directors no excuse at all for ejecting you from the tournament. so our behavior was to be above reproach. always. that s what arthur ashe came up with. a nonconfrontational philosophy. in virginia it is very easy for a young black child to think why even bother trying to excel? if racism is so bad that no matter what i do it ain t going to make a difference. if we had more than a smattering of intelligence, in order to really use it you had to leave. and that s what generations after generations of us did. we left, trying to make our mark someplace.
Black kids would be skrut niced more intensely and had to give the white tournament directors no excuse at all for ejecting you from the tournament so our behavior was to be above reproach always. that s what arthur ashe came up with. a nonconfrontational philosophy. in virginia, it is very easy for a young black child to think why even bother trying to excel? if racism is so bad no matter what i do it ain t going to make a difference. if we had more than a mattering of intelligence you had to leaf. that s what generations after generations of us did was leave try to make our mark some place. when i was a senior in high school i had to leave richmond because richmond had no indoor