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The Augusta News-Review - December 6, 1973
December "Encore” Takes Wilt Chamberlain To
Task For Committing A Personal Foul
In a cover story that is
destined to be as controversial
as the book it is reviewing, the
editors of ENCORE answer
W ilt Chamberlain, basketball
superstar, on his attitudes
toward Black and white women
as sexual partners, racial
relations and politics.
The essay, “Wilt: Commits a
Personal Foul”, appears in the
December issue of ENCORE,
the Monthly News Magazine,
on sale at newsstands across
the nation on Nov. 27, 1973.
Senior Editor Lynn Sharpe
refutes Chamberlain in the
form of a “Dear Wilt” letter.
After commenting that, at
first glance, the autobiography
looks like “a not-so-ordinary
book about basketball” and
praising the author for being
“right on target about teams,
coaches and players,” Ms.
Sharpe says she began to get
confused when the seven footer
got into race relations and
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“Why do you find it
necessary,’’she asks “to
describe yourself as ‘bronze’ or
‘copper-colored?’ ... The only
people you put down for
‘labeling’ are Black folks, who
you say are aggravating the
racial situation by all their
angry rhetoric and hate-whitey
ideas ... It seems peculiar that a
sophisticated world traveler
like you should find it
necessary to show how liberal
you are by telling us how many
of your friends are white and
how many are Black.”
As to politics, the reviewer
takes Chamberlain to task for
proudly telling the world about
how Richard Milhous Nixon
used him - and with his
consent. “Wasn’t it obvious
that Nixon was using you to
appease the Blacks in the
Party?” asks Ms. Sharpe. As to
his praise for Nixon, Lynn
Sharpe believes it is ludicrous
that a Black man in
Chamberlain’s position would
allow himself to be exploited
as an apologist for Nixon.
But it is Chamberlain’s
discussion of Black women
that particularly raises essayist
Sharpe’s ire. Answering Wilt’s
preference to date whites
because of “common interests
and aptitudes” and because
Black women are not well-read,
she suggests that “perhaps the
reason you don’t get to meet
Black women is not because
they don’t have the money to
move in the same circles as
you, but because they might
not find the circles you move
in interesting”.
As to his argument that
“Black women don’t have
sophistication,” the reviewer
asks “What’s so sophisticated
about ‘making love’ in an
airplane bathroom ... or doing
a ‘Deep Throat’ performance in
public?”
In his book, Chamberlain
states that “many Black girls
grow up thinking of sex as
furtive and dirty, and they
can’t respond as fully as they
should to a man.” Ms. Sharpe
replies: “If Black women (not
’girls’) have any problems with
sex, they only share the
hang-ups imposed on all of us.
Black and white, by society’s
morals.”
In her conclusion, Lynn
Sharpe tells the ballplaying
millionaire, “Incredibly, in the
process of proving your
individuality, intellectualism
and sophistication, you have
become the very thing you
dislike: the stereotype of a
“jock” who wallows only in
sports and sex”.
On the cover, artist Bob
West shows a shackled Wilt,
seated on a basketball, being
dragged, like a house-pet, by a
scantily-clad white woman.”
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by Michael Thurmond
Raymond Jenkins, a former
Paine College basketball star,
has been named assistant
basketball coach at Paine for
the 73-74 season.
During the early fifties,
Jenkins was a starting guard
and captain of Paine’s team
during his senior year under
the late and legendary James
Brown.
The newly appointed
Augusta born coach revealed
that although he is serving for
the first time as a collegiate
coach, the profession is one in
which he is well experienced as
he has been “coaching all his
life.”
His coaching career began
shortly after his four year
tenure in “Lion Land”. He
enlisted in the army and later
served as head coach at his
army post. After returning to
civilian life, he coached in
elementary school and was the
Coordinator of City Recreation
Activities. During his 17 years
of coaching, Jenkins proudly
boasted of never having a
losing season.
When asked about his
feelings concerning returning
to coach at his alma mater he
replied, “It’s really nice to be
back, especially after being
gone for 20 years. I am really
proud of the fine bunch of
young men on this year’s
squad.”
As most sports fans know
small college coaches don’t
make very much money and
coach Jenkins is no execution.
“I must admit it wasn’t the
money that brought me back,
but more than anything else, it
was my deep love for the
college and for basketball that
prompted me to come back.”
Whether it can be credited
to the presence of the new
coach is debatable, but the
Lions are undefeated in their
first three games. Jenkins told
the News-Review, “I think that
Raymond Jenkins (second from right) studies court
action with head coach, Ernest Tolbert.
the key to victory thus far has
been unity and an unselfish
attitude among the players
which has resulted in a very
balanced attack.”
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Finally Jenkins fondly
reminisced about his freshman
year at Paine when Coach
Brown appointed him
“captain” of the fifth string.
No doubt it’s been a rather
long, hard road from a
mediocre fifth string captain to
assistant coach.