Larry Kent

I can’t really give you percentages or numbers or whatever.  I remember some of the best players were black.  And I don’t remember any issues over race.  I’m sure it would be different if I was black.  But I don’t recall any sort of racial tension.  It was the 60s and that was a big part of society.  And we took history and government classes.  And I think I mentioned to you before that last couple of years of school,  any time I had some kind of research paper, it always seemed to be about race or leaders, like Martin Luther King or Malcom X or people like that.  I was studying and learning about what was going on.  And I played in a band with -- it was, golly, there were so many of us, we never made a nickel.  I think it was like five or six, white instrumentalists and five black singers out front.  Doing the Temptations and Four Tops and all the Motown stuff.  So we were together outside of school to practice and talk about what music we were going to do and what clothes we were going to wear and all that.  It’s just -- as far as the makeup of the sports team or the classroom, I don’t know, I’d say it seemed to me, in the classrooms it seemed to be a lot more heavier white.  Higher percentage of white.  Sports teams was less so.