Al Mc Guire was a college basketball coach.
Interview 1983
Is the basketball still the best way out of the ghetto?
No, basketball hurts the black race.
It puts a veil or a cataract or mucus in front of all those hundreds of thousands
of little black boys and girls thinking that their worl is the hoops.
But only one out of 25,000 will ever become a pro.
It gets handled backward. Blacks truly have governed only poverty and basketball.
And basketball has become an after burner for a very, very small percentage of them.
By Being glamorized so much, it leads a lot of young black people into a dreamworld
that will crush them. They end up in tapioca
