Having spent most of my coaching career coaching predominantly black teams, we saw and heard our share of "stuff". We went a lot of places where they put off duty cops behind our bench to "maintain security". I don't know if any of you were around when I was at Schlagle but our kids never ever were a problem anywhere we went and we went all over the state in those days. We nearly walked out of a duel one night over that armed security guard deal. There were some perceptions that because our kids were black that they were inherently stallers, ie; lazy. We had people in several gyms just sit and stare at our kids like they were looking at someone from another planet, referees make comments about "your type of kids", when we had some of the finest kids anywhere in the state. Anyone that doesn't think wrestling mirrors every other facet of society has their head up there hind end. It's everywhere. We never let it affect us in anyway, and truth be told it probably bothered me more than it did them, they were used to it. Now isn't that sad....