6-2 Black Who Can’t Dunk Wonders Where Parents Went Wrong
I am a retired kindergarten teacher who tends to oversimplify questions, but there are some things about the black superior athlete I have been asking myself:
1. Don’t we, with love and respect for members of all races, trace ourselves back to one beginning?
2. Did the slave traders trap the smallest or the biggest and best African people?
And on the cruise to the United States, which ones survived, the weakest or the strongest?
And in the institutions of slavery here, who survived? Strongest? Weakest?
3. Who has to try harder to make it in the sports arena and elsewhere?
And the last question is most puzzling to me:
4. Why are some people fired and punished for racist remarks and actions, while others are rewarded for almost anything they say or do?
RAMONA BURNHAM
Covina
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