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...great sense of humor," says Sengal M. Selassie '90, Knight's friend and future Manhattan roommate. "That humor allows him to adjust really well to all types of situations...
...kidding. Knight has been adjusting and adapting all his life. This isn't like his third continent. It is his third continent. Born in Ugandan to an English father and an Ugandan mother, the young Knight left his birthplace in 1972 and moved to Northern England to live with his father. The environment was anything but familiar...
...lived there for 12 years and I never saw a Black person in my county," Knight says...
Sports, however, became knight's way of adjusting. If he proved he could share some of the experiences prized by others, then maybe others would accept him. It was effective--so much so that by the time he turned 16, Knight had earned the respect of his teammates and a contract with the Carlisle club. Life for the teenager was set. Or so it appeared...
Then came the trip to the States to visit his brother, Tony, in Guilford, Conn. The trip was the starting point of the rest of his life--literally. After spending the summer painting houses ("As all high school students do," Knight says), Knight's uncle--his mother's brother--and his aunt invited him to stay with their family in Connecticut...