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5-And-A-Half Stories About The Same Thing

Will June 3, 2009

Coleman Collins, D-League journeyman, former Euro-basketballer, and a pretty entertaining author, is now contributing to TrueHoop. A taste:

I was walking through Amsterdam the other day when I crossed paths with two German women, one of whom stopped directly in front of me, looked me up and down, and turned over her shoulder to yell to her friend: “Damn, lots of blacks here, aren’t there?”

She said this in German, obviously, probably not guessing in a million years that I could understand what she was saying … but still … hadn’t she seen real-live black people before?

Read the whole thing, even if you’re not a basketball fan.

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