Oral History Interview with Raymond Clement, July 6, 1983 Page: 8
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Clement
8looking back on it--since we had two blacks on the team,
that made the other bunch hate us even worse.
So after about one week of it, I guess, I went home for the
weekend. Man, I was tired, and I was sore, and I'd rather
do anything than come back down here and play again. So I
told Mama, "Now Daddy ain't gonna want me playing with some
niggers, and we've got some niggers on our team." I'll clarify
this right now. That's the way we were taught and instructed
back home--that they were niggers, not Negroes. So anybody
that's colored and that's going to read this, I apologize
to you. But, anyway, I said, "Mama, Daddy ain't gonna want
me to play with some niggers, and so I'm not going back." My
mother is a tremendous woman, and she looked up, and she said,
"If you want to play football, you play football. If you want
to quit because it's too tough for you, you quit. But don't
blame it on two colored people." So in the car I go (laughter),
and I come back and I'm wanting to quit. I'm wanting to quit
every day. Finally, I get through one semester, but that's
the early story right there.
Let'spick up on this a little bit. Awhile ago you mentioned
that Bowie was a very, very segregated community. Why don't
you expand on that and explain what you mean.
Okay, if you go back in the history of Bowie--and I teach
American history up there right now and have been since the
fall of 1964, I believe--right around the turn of the century,
Bowie had a black community--a farming community--that gotMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Clement, Raymond. Oral History Interview with Raymond Clement, July 6, 1983, book, July 6, 1983; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223649/m1/10/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.