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Longhorn85
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This, my friends, is exactly what MLK had in mind, IMO:
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Son of a trail blazer
Temple's father broke a color line at LSU in '71
By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff | March 29, 2006
Some people wanted him dead. He was the Jackie Robinson of LSU basketball, and they were segregationists.
''If you shoot the ball, we'll shoot you," one anonymous hater warned Collis Temple Jr., who broke the color line in 1971 as LSU's first African-American basketball player.
Death threats, hate mail, racial slurs, malicious graffiti: Temple endured a firestorm of indignities as he blazed a trail for his son, Garrett, and the rest of LSU's all-black starting five who head to the Final Four this week with a chance to enhance his legacy by winning the school's first NCAA basketball championship.
The elder Temple, 53, who played for the Tigers from 1971-74, said he would feel ''tremendous" about his pioneering role at LSU if his son and teammates won the title and no one considered the color of their skin.
''I just hope people can come to terms with the concept that we can all benefit from wanting to move forward as individuals and as a society," he said. ''It has absolutely nothing to do with whether you're black, white, or polka dot. It has more to do with character."
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleg..._blazer?mode=PF
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Son of a trail blazer
Temple's father broke a color line at LSU in '71
By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff | March 29, 2006
Some people wanted him dead. He was the Jackie Robinson of LSU basketball, and they were segregationists.
''If you shoot the ball, we'll shoot you," one anonymous hater warned Collis Temple Jr., who broke the color line in 1971 as LSU's first African-American basketball player.
Death threats, hate mail, racial slurs, malicious graffiti: Temple endured a firestorm of indignities as he blazed a trail for his son, Garrett, and the rest of LSU's all-black starting five who head to the Final Four this week with a chance to enhance his legacy by winning the school's first NCAA basketball championship.
The elder Temple, 53, who played for the Tigers from 1971-74, said he would feel ''tremendous" about his pioneering role at LSU if his son and teammates won the title and no one considered the color of their skin.
''I just hope people can come to terms with the concept that we can all benefit from wanting to move forward as individuals and as a society," he said. ''It has absolutely nothing to do with whether you're black, white, or polka dot. It has more to do with character."
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleg..._blazer?mode=PF
