Original Hornets Owner cautioned Players against Interracial Dating

Discussion in 'Sports' started by glt1980, Feb 24, 2019.

  1. glt1980

    glt1980 Well-Known Member

    For those of us old enough to remember the current incarnation of the Hornets is not the original, back before MJ was the owner there was another team in Charlotte called the Hornets created in 1988, that year in the expansion draft they took a player by the name of Dell Curry father of Steph and Seth he is married to a light skin black woman by the name of Sonya. Anyway at the time the owner of the team was a man by the name of George Shinn, and he apparently had a problem with his players dating outside their races. Sonya recalled a story

    “The owner called in another player, a white guy player who dated black women, and said, ‘We drafted you. We know who you like to date. But we just want to tell you to really be careful about letting people see because Dell Curry is married to a white woman and we don’t know how people are going to take them either,’ ” Sonya Curry said. “The player was like, ‘You are not going to believe what they just said.’ I was like, ‘What?’ Just the assumption of what I look like and all that.”

    https://theundefeated.com/features/...es-with-racism-into-lessons-for-her-children/

    The white player in question was Rex Chapman in case you are wondering.
     
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