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
Caused arthur to realize that there was another side of segregation that we had n t sperngsed. the true ugliness of it. he couldn t understand the nature of a person to commit an atrocity like that. feelings about it. keep your own counsel. and the inclination to push back and protest. that is still even now that s tensions that i feel. obviously that became smack up against the black social revolution when the bigger the afro was the more status you had. i m african american. make no bones about it. but i m more than. to be a stereotypical african american to say this, do that,