Sudden Sam wrote: I like that Dunnavant addresses the fact that so many people, then and now, use(d) a mighty broad brush to paint all of us southerners as racists. That was never the case...and isn't now. Granted, there were and are some, as there are everywhere, but the general populace was never a bunch of KKKers.
Ok Sam.... just stop.
You might want to edit out this quote if you're really trying to sell this to some Eskimos.
Sudden Sam wrote: He wanted to integrate the team, but he knew the time wasn't yet right to put a kid in such a position at Alabama.
Care to elaborate? I'm sure your grasp of US History and the socio-economic situation of '60s Alabama is on par with your understanding of College Football.
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Sudden Sam wrote:And, as far as the famous Sam Cunningham game integrating the Bama football team, that was bullshit.
Really ?
Former Bear Bryant assistant coach Jerry Claiborne noted, “Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 60 minutes that night than Martin Luther King had accomplished in 20 years.”
A Pac-10football player helped integrate the state of Alabama ?
Sudden Sam wrote:And, as far as the famous Sam Cunningham game integrating the Bama football team, that was bullshit.
Really ?
Former Bear Bryant assistant coach Jerry Claiborne noted, “Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 60 minutes that night than Martin Luther King had accomplished in 20 years.”
A Pac-10football player helped integrate the state of Alabama ?
That's some funny stuff !
What Alabama fans didn't yet know was that Bryant had already crossed the color line. Sitting in the stands that day was the university's first black scholarship player, Wilbur Jackson,
See, Bryant was already signing black kids. But y'all go ahead and enjoy the fables.
Looks like you're having a problem deciphering one and a bunch....
Psst..... this is 1970 !!!
I can pull your quote where you said Alabama was no different than any other school when it came to racism.... if you'd like.
Hell, I think the Univ. of Michigan had it's first black player in 1890.
Sam, I just think you're trying to hard to sell Alabama as no different as any other school in the country on these issues and they just don't stand up.
.m2 wrote:Sam, I just think you're trying to hard to sell Alabama as no different as any other school in the country on these issues and they just don't stand up.
1970 ???
Killian wrote:Hey Douchefuck, why don't you tell the class a little bit about the Texas Longhorns in the 1960's?
Try harder.
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