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To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (40127)	12/19/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

OT - Lisa, I don't believe I ever heard anyone talk about black athletes back then. LSU was all white, so the LSU football team was all white, too, and the LSU basketball team. I recall that everything black people did was pretty much discounted, except for music, singing, dancing, cooking, and some other stuff I wasn't supposed to hear them talking about. Not nice. Congrats on watching a great movie. Leni Riefenstahl really had a gift. I think by this time most people consider it history, and probably won't ostracize you for watching it. But, if you feel an uncontrollable urge to put your right arm straight up in the air, turn off the TV.<g>

To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (40127)	12/19/1998 10:09:00 PM
From: Merritt	Respond to of 132070

Lisa: As an addendum to CB's post, I'll offer an anecdote from the West Coast of the fifties. I had an athletic membership in the S.F.Olympic Club at the time, and took a friend, who'd been a Golden Gloves champion in Hawaii, to see the A.D. at the club to see if they'd provide him with one, also. The A.D. got red in the face, and explained that the club didn't allow people of color as members (my friend was Hawaiian), and then went on to say how he was trying to break that prejudice down, and then cited as how he'd been able to get the board to ALLOW the national champion basketball team from U.S.F to appear at a luncheon. This was a team that had gone undefeated, and had Bill Russell and K.C.Jones as players. Today, they'd have to pay to have them appear.