Tuesday, January 18, 2005
IS IT TOO LATE TO SELLOUT?
by G. Dan Buford
12/06/04
We live in a generation where people think of a crossover as Iverson on the perimeter giving Jordan a few reasons why he should have stayed retired.
Twenty years ago, in high school, a crossover was what we called that lone minority kid in a clique of 10 to 20 whites. If my school had been in suburbia, perhaps he could have gotten a pass. What bothered us most about students like him were how his mannerisms mimicked the others in the group in which he traveled, as if clearly stating his desires to be the other.
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IS IT TOO LATE TO SELLOUT?
by G. Dan Buford
12/06/04
We live in a generation where people think of a crossover as Iverson on the perimeter giving Jordan a few reasons why he should have stayed retired.
Twenty years ago, in high school, a crossover was what we called that lone minority kid in a clique of 10 to 20 whites. If my school had been in suburbia, perhaps he could have gotten a pass. What bothered us most about students like him were how his mannerisms mimicked the others in the group in which he traveled, as if clearly stating his desires to be the other.
--->read the rest
