CAPN CRUNCH said:I grew up in a very integrated neighborhood, school and state. I have seen much racism in everyday life as long as I can remember. I see sports as our best way to really mix together and feel true kinship. In life outside sport it seems to me, groups of people vary, but as a rule you usually seem to see people self-integrating themselves in their neighborhoods and schools, and churches. I do not have all the answers, or even pretend to, but i would like to see the world get along more like we do in sports. Somehow , we always seem to have this black/white thing hanging out there like a huge spector and very seldom does the subject get broached. OJ and Michael are miles apart but still the spector lingers unseen and unheard until it explodes somehow. Will we ever agree on this or will it always remain? Your thoughts, please!:toast:
I recently joined the Big Brother Big Sister program, and was assigned a little brother who is an 8-year old black kid living in Inglewood. I have been to his house a number of times, and I am the only white person I have seen in that neighborhood. I am also the only white person that this child knows, outside of a couple teachers at his school. I went to watch one of his pee-wee basketball games and I was the only white person at the gym. My wife and I took him to Chuck-E-Cheese in his neighborhood and we were the only white people there. I don't know if this tells me anything about how black people feel in our society, but I know how out of place I felt, even though no one said anything to me or gave me dirty looks.