[Magdalen] Enjoying a colleague's accent

[Jim Guthrie]

When I went of GWU, our athletic teams played in the Southern Conference. We 
were the first school to have an African=American player, So when we played a 
basketball game we heard a lot of Dixie and Catcalls. And (I forget which, East 
Carolina and Citadel -- schools were military academies training officers for 
the moment the Traitorous Truce of Appomattox was called off), but every time 
Garland got possession, someone would throw n egg at him. And then the ref would 
call a technical foul. I've never seen so many TFs in  game anywhere.

We also had Bob Talent, a transfer from Kentucky who  ahd been on the all-white 
team that lost to the all-Black team for Texas in that ugly scandal.

Of course, the Confederate Battle Flag remains the ultimate symbol of 
subjugation of African-Americans, as well as a symbol of treachery and 
treason -- and flying it over the State Capital in South Carolina tells  us much 
about the attitude of the majority of people in South Carolina *and other places 
where this crap is government-sanctioned).

Jim Guthrie
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