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...Legend of Nigger Charley is not much of an improvement. The plot comes more or less out of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, minus three. Charley is a freed slave who rides through the Southwest righting wrongs with the help of three companions. At one point, shortly after dispatching a gang of drunken louts in a saloon set-to, they help a white homesteader fight off the attacks of a band of marauding outlaws. Charley develops a yen for the homesteader's half-breed wife, portrayed by a comely young actress named Tricia O'Neill, who represents...
TRANSFERRING TO HARVARD might have been one of the biggest mistakes of my life. When I decided I had had enough of "nigger, know your place" academics and football at Drake University in Iowa, I foolishly thought that it might be possible for me to escape it by fleeing East. East where the "good" white people were. Now Harvard has proved to me what I had really feared all along: there are very few "good" white people and they are not to be found all in one location. Of course, some whites are more outwardly pleasant than others to black...
...come to Harvard? Why did I leave a situation where I had established myself as the "super nigger" of the Drake backfield. Why? The answer could possibly be found in the same reasons why blacks left the South and came North. North where they felt they could finally be free...
...personal advancement. First I wanted to equip my mind so that one day I might become an anthropological authority. I thought a Harvard degree would enhance my credibility in this pursuit. Now I feel it might have the opposite effect. Additionally, I came to continue my gridiron "super nigger" exploits...
UPON TRANSFERRING TO HARVARD in the fall of 1969, I went to visit "Honest Yovy" to tell him that I wanted to play football for Harvard. I showed Yovicsin my scrapbook from Drake to let him know that I was a football "super nigger". He asked me why I left Drake. I told him that I had had racial difficulties at Drake--that the coaches disapproved of my politics, heard and dress. Yovicsin assured me I would have no such difficulties of that nature at Harvard. Then he proceeded to tell me "some of my best friends are colored...