Here's an interesting email I just received:
CF:
My blond-haired, blue-eyed, 6'5" nephew has gone to play football at a college School. He has not played a lot of football, just a year on the dummy squad in High School, but he is really fast and has exceptional hands.
Having had experience in the NCAA, and seen the first-hand intimidation of white athletes (physical and race-baiting) I naturally had advice for him. 1. The black players are not your friends. They will delegate someone from their clique to check you out and try to get to know you. He will go and tell his friends about you and they will start playing mind-games on the field, in the locker room, etc. 2. I went; he would not be approached by someone who plays his position (running back) but by another position, a receiver for example. Any 'friendships' will be strictly to undermine your intensity when competing for their friends' position. They work on you as a team. 3. Also, don't spill your guts to an assistant coach (head coaches are aloof, anyway) because they have a vested interest in their sub-system not being disturbed. They are trying to get ahead, after all, and 50% effectiveness using black players will secure a job, whereas 75% effectiveness using white players will get him a call from Jesse Jackson, et al.
I also explained that having horrible childhoods has most black athletes equipped with emotional armor that a rhetorical sandblaster couldn't disturb; so don't try to talk trash with them.
You have them on the ropes when they start threatening your life or to copulate with your sister. Nonetheless, their support system will pat them on the back and tell them "it's cuz you _____ (insert expletive") after you consistently beat them in scrimmage and drills. Eventually, you will shut them up but it could take a couple of years.
I also discussed the dilemma/paradigm where the black athlete, for example a High School Senior 3rd string running back in the final game of the season will still harbor fantasies/delusions/beliefs that he could still get into the game/is better than the first two strings/and may well go through his entire life with the adamant belief that he would have done better than the guy that took his team to victory after victor.
The white athlete has already taken his position on the bench, and resigned himself to it.
I've seen the last phenomenon in the form of a 27 year old, black parolee who went out for football on a Division III team and wouldn't go down until it was clear to everyone (except him) that he was slower than everyone on the offensive line...so he raped a girl who was walking home from the library (a white girl, BTW) and was quietly returned to Prison.