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...athletics you're judged strictly on how you perform." Ron Winfield, the captain of the fencing team, said. But for most blacks at Harvard, graduation will mark the end of participation in organized athletics...
...Winfield is pre-med. Tom Williamson, star safety on the football team, plans to be a legal services lawyer, "a base for becoming a lobbyist for poor people." Bobby Johnson, swingman for the basketbal squad, thinks he'd like to go into psychiatry to study the "irrationality of racism...
...rest of the university, however, "everybody is trying to be more liberal but has repressed prejudice." Winfield said. For Winfield it's fun to watch the excessive manuvering: as a black, "You can get away with nearly anything," he said. But Johnson is not amused: "I'm as revolted by attempts to make up for my color as by attempts to subhumanize...
Because athletic competition tends to be apolitical, any problems that black athletes encounter are those that any black student at Harvard finds. While Tyson said that Harvard's outlook is "definitely racist," Winfield said that the university is "not racist but pretty conservative...
...Winfield, who began fencing only two years ago, has no regrets about joining the ranks of the jocks. "I was a science fiction fiend and a lot of the heroes ran around with swords. I thought...