The Huddle

Food for thought from The Huddle.

1. How can the Ultimate community encourage more interest and involvement in communities of color?

2. What is it like to be the only player of your race on the field? On a team? At a tournament? How does this change your game or your experience on the team?

3. If an upper-middle-class white American (like myself) were concerned that his teammate was racially marginalized by team dynamics, what advice would you give him? Have you ever seen team dynamics like this? Has it been fixed? How?

4. [This came up in a fan email to The Huddle...] Imagine a young black fan from Trinidad writes you, and they want to come to America to (among other things) try to play on a competitive Ultimate team. They are worried about what they have heard about race relations in the US, and they want to know if this will affect their experience. How would you answer this question?

5. How do race relations in Ultimate compare to those in other sports that you have played?

6. Some of you have written very passionately about the opportunity for DTB to do something more than just play, party, and have a great time. If you were in charge and had the resources, how do you envision DTB helping? What would you like to organize, and what kind of resources would you need? How do you think DTB can help? How can like-minded folks from any race help DTB in these goals?

Here comes the weekend. Brown intends to show up.