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...digs in along the way. He tells of Mantle showing up for a game "hung over out of his mind" and pushing little kids aside who wanted his autograph; of white umpires deliberately trying to embarrass Negro Umpire Emmett Ashford. He tells, too, of the way former Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford conspired to load the ball with mud, or scuff it with a ring. "Ford," explains Bouton, "could make a mud ball drop, sail, break in, break out and sing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
From the start, hostility was evident. Blacks clashed bitterly and repeatedly with police over alleged discriminatory practices and the use of dogs against people. "If Whitey wants the dogs, let him vote for their use in his community!" one man shouted. "They're not wanted in the black areas." "If we had good policemen, there'd be no need for dogs," said another. For their part, the two attending policemen took the lambasting fairly calmly, admitting that there was a "100 percent breakdown in communications between police and segments of the community"-meaning the blacks. Discrimination was charged...
...recognition won by black artists. But as artists, they dislike the white man's current celebration of them merely because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black artist is a man, baby, not some kind of plastic superman you can make tap dance to Whitey's tune." Said another scornfully: "If they want black art, just take a canvas, paint it black, call it Nigger Number One, and they...
...there such a thing as black art? Museums and gallery owners across the country seem to think so, and are rushing to mount shows. But as in other such efforts, earnest, liberal Whitey does not seem to have got it just right...
Young and Angry. The youngest and angriest care neither about what Whitey thinks nor about what they call the "white man's aesthetic." Their sole interest is to create a black art to which the black community can respond...