Awake in America
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was there a defining media contrived moment anyone can pinpoint as the start of the NFL, college teams racial preferences? Because as long as I can remember it was firmly in place. As a kid I could never understand it, but it was so obvious to me. I was a really fast runner as a kid....always won races against black kids in a black neighborhood, so it mystified me.
Probably September 12, 1970. USC beat an all white Alabama team that went on to a 6-4-1 season. Interestingly, the Trojans finished the year with the same record. Sam Cunningham had a stellar performance, and USC had an all black backfield. It's claimed that Bear Bryant took Cunningham into the Tide locker room, and told his team something along the lines of "this is what a football player looks like." It wasn't the first time Bama had faced a black player, or been beaten by an integrated team. The legend says "Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King did in 20 years." Alabama had already signed it's first black player, but freshmen were not eligible for varsity games back then.
That game is the one the (((media))) seized on, and I imagine several potted plants were sexually assaulted in the excitement of the aftermath. That one game has been used for nearly 50 years as proof that blacks are superior football players.