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I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying?

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.

What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

When I first started, as long as you were a bit brown, you could play any kind of ethnic anything. Now it's much more localised and specific. I feel like a wise old woman looking back on the evolution of how much more sophisticated audiences are.

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.