He’s one of the most likable guys you’ll ever see, with an infectious personality. He wears an almost permanent smile that is 100% genuine and not a bit put-on. It’s not that I know him personally, but these are the things that are said about him by everyone who knows him best. He is the first Black HC in FB of the Atlanta Falcons, UGA or GT, not on an interim basis. With Atlanta, Georgia, being the Black Mecca, it is very fitting.
Being a 76 year-old white male who grew up in the rural south during the 1950s and 60s, I am thoroughly versed in Jim Crow and segregation. I would play pick up games many afternoons with Black friends (and we would have some fantastic games… some of these guys were very talented), the white political power structure would not allow these same young people to attend white schools; they were relegated to the Black schools where they received an inferior education. I didn’t understand it, didn’t agree with it, but I was powerless to make any kind of change. What I could do was what my parents taught me to do, and that was too “love my neighbor as myself,” and to “do unto others, as I would have them do unto me,” and this included my Black friends.
As likable as Rah Morris is, and as much as people in Atlanta, Georgia, and the nation are pulling for him, he’ll be judged on his record of wins and losses, as it should be, and not based on the color of his skin. I think this was a great hire by Arthur Blank, and I hope that Coach Raheem Morris is a great success. The first Black head football coach of a major college or the NFL in the state of Georgia…..’bout time.
Being a 76 year-old white male who grew up in the rural south during the 1950s and 60s, I am thoroughly versed in Jim Crow and segregation. I would play pick up games many afternoons with Black friends (and we would have some fantastic games… some of these guys were very talented), the white political power structure would not allow these same young people to attend white schools; they were relegated to the Black schools where they received an inferior education. I didn’t understand it, didn’t agree with it, but I was powerless to make any kind of change. What I could do was what my parents taught me to do, and that was too “love my neighbor as myself,” and to “do unto others, as I would have them do unto me,” and this included my Black friends.
As likable as Rah Morris is, and as much as people in Atlanta, Georgia, and the nation are pulling for him, he’ll be judged on his record of wins and losses, as it should be, and not based on the color of his skin. I think this was a great hire by Arthur Blank, and I hope that Coach Raheem Morris is a great success. The first Black head football coach of a major college or the NFL in the state of Georgia…..’bout time.
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