Racism in football

I don’t like to talk about racism very much because it’s an emotionally exhausting topic to discuss, but I’m making an exception this time. Specifically, I wrote an article on the Black & White & Read All Over website about my thoughts regarding the ongoing problem of racism in football.

“Since I was almost always the only black player on the pitch then, I knew I couldn’t screw up. I had to be strong, I had to be great, I had to show no weakness because I, perhaps erroneously, felt that I represented the image of black football players.”

You can read the article by following this link. For additional context to this article, please also read the following.

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See you, Space Cowboy.

I’m the author of the book “Community Heroes: What a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA member taught me about community development”