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Open and wide spread racism was notable when I was a kid in the 1960s.  And it was not solely in the South.  White players would have tried to hurt a black player on an opposing team, maybe a bit less so by 1968, but certainly in 1934.  It was accepted, "politically correct", and politicians got elected by openly espousing it.

I remember when Jimmy Carter was elected governor, he had run what I considered a racist campaign, but he gave his inaugural address that changed that perception, for me anyway, and made a lot of enemies.  Carter's opponent was a Republican who I thought was quite moderate and sensible, Hal somebody, who was a local TV reporter and commentator.

He had no chance, none.

I've noted before how shocked, literally, I have been en famille in France among highly educated people who are very frank and open about their racism.

It's not done here, at all, ever, in my experience.

By the time I got to UGA, it was "no big deal" among students that I could discern.  I'm sure some were racist, but they kept it to themselves, 1972-1975.

I played volleyball with some of the Dawg FB players, black and white, and they seemed to get along just fine.  I once spiked our tight end in the face and was upset with myself, but he laughed it off, and later spiked me in the face, pretty hard, not intentionally, it was part of the game.  I was teared up though.  It was a smack.

The fact he was  black was irrelevant.  Things changed fairly quickly in some respects.

In 1934 Michigan’s football team was integrated unlike most of the Big Ten at that time.  So I have a hard time buying that AD Yost was a racist.  The deal Yost struck with GA Tech was a business decision that allowed the game to be played and included Tech having to bench their star player.  Second guessing the decision some 80+ years later is a cheap shot and smells like virtue signaling by the committee.

Very few white folks in  the 1930s were not "racists" using the current definition, north or south.  It was a widely shared belief that blacks were inferior and only equipped for menial jobs etc.  It took a long time for that to start to change, for some.

Lincoln was a racist.  I'd guess Yost was a racist like everyone else around him.  

I think one fact in changing was desegregation of the military,  Folks served in units with black men and "discovered" they were pretty much the same.

Jackie Robinson in my view merits all the credit and acclaim he gets today.

A black player (Thorpe Award winner Lawrence Wright) popularized that phrase/cheer in the mid-90s.  
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