"WHY BLACKS DON'T SURF," BY EARL OFARI, H20 MAGAZINE (1979)
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"Why Blacks Don't Surf" ran in the Summer 1979 issue of Los Angeles-based H20 magazine. Writer Earl Ofari, 24, was then the Public Affairs Director for radio station KPFK, and has since written more than a dozen books on race, culture, and politics. This text below has been slightly edited. * * * “I was a black man in a white world, I never had it made.” The words were not spoken by some wild-ey...
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