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Defend America on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:30:23 PM
A Personal Inequity
by Thomas Sowell
Sometimes, when I hear about "disparities" and "inequities," I
think of a disparity that applied directly to me-- the disparity in
basketball ability between myself and Michael Jordan.
When I was in school, I was so awful in basketball that the
class coach wouldn't even let me try out for softball, at which I was
actually pretty good.
I was more than forty years old before I ever got the ball
through the basket. It wasn't during a game. The basket was in my
brother's backyard and I was just shooting-- unopposed-- from
practically right under the basket. The only pressure on me was that my
little nephew was watching.
After making that one basket, I never took a basketball in my hands again. I retired at my peak.
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