Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The 76th Masters...

...Golf Tournament will be played in Augusta, Georgia, this week. The Times has an article on its front page about the club's caddies: 

For decades, the black caddies at Augusta National Golf Club — required by the club’s rules and treasured for their nuanced knowledge of the course’s topography — stood as a striking symbol of the sport’s segregated state. 

“As long as I’m alive,” said Clifford Roberts, one of the club’s founders in 1933 and a longtime Masters chairman, “all the golfers will be white and all the caddies will be black.”

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