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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Sorry to interject - but can anyone explain why for decades the council has provided basketball courts at the drop of a hat when the odd £10,000-£50,000 -or even more- had to be spent?
Back in the mid 1990s we had the "Save Kennington Lido" campaign. It turned out that the council had a grant to build basketball pitches which they couldn't use on Clapham Common - for fear of the wrath of the Clapham Society.
So the less dominant Kennington Lido lovers went for a burton - the lido was demolished and basketball won the day.
There are of course basketball pitches on Loughborough Estate, Angel Town and even Ruskin Park - probably many other places beside. And I have seldom seen any basket ball played on most of them. Only Kennington Park and Angell Town usually.
Has a message gone out from the cultural imperialists at the American Embassy that black people have to learn basketball, not soccer?
I think we should be told.
Back in the mid 1990s we had the "Save Kennington Lido" campaign. It turned out that the council had a grant to build basketball pitches which they couldn't use on Clapham Common - for fear of the wrath of the Clapham Society.
So the less dominant Kennington Lido lovers went for a burton - the lido was demolished and basketball won the day.
There are of course basketball pitches on Loughborough Estate, Angel Town and even Ruskin Park - probably many other places beside. And I have seldom seen any basket ball played on most of them. Only Kennington Park and Angell Town usually.
Has a message gone out from the cultural imperialists at the American Embassy that black people have to learn basketball, not soccer?
I think we should be told.
