The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1991 Page: 2 of 20
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A GUEST EDITORIAL
From Bill Harris
IX/TaNY COLUMNISTS have asked why
JL w JLPaul Tagliabue, NFL Commissioner, got
involved in Arizona’s Martin Luther King
holiday controversy?
A Better question would be why would the
NFL ever consider Arizona for a Super Bowl?
Let’s set up the type of scenario that worries
Tagliabue and the NFL owners.
January 1, 1993, and 76,000 fans are in Sun
Devil Stadium, the bands are playing and excite-
ment shakes the stands. Some people have paid
S200 for their tickets.
The Philadelphia Eagles are meeting the
Houston Oilers.
Early on January 1, Governor Evan Mecham,
Arizona’s finest, states, "You see we won, we will
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RECORD
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BEN EZZELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL Editor
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Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945 at the Post Office at Canadian, Texas
under the act of March 3, 1879. Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas,
by Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
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never have a holiday honoring a black man."
Randall Cunningham, Eagle QB, calls War-
ren Moon, Houston QB.
At 1 p.m. mountain time, the teams don’t
appear on the field, not even a white faced coach
shows. The game is canceled.
Bad dream? No, a possibility.
African Americans might not be making much
progress in some lines of endeavor, but profes-
sional football and basketball are dominated by
Blacks. We would not watch either very long if
they did not participate. Professional baseball
and the Armed Forces are also good fields for
Blacks.
Professional sports provides a channel from
the ghetto to the super rich status.
The NFL Commissioner, the owners, and
coaches know who makes their money.
The NFL has helped develop reading
materials for ghetto schools, provided NFL
awards to encourage teachers, and encouraged
players to return to college in the off season to
complete degrees. They also have an anti-drug
program for kids.
During the 1950’s, all of the NFL teams had
Black players except the Washington Redskins,
and they were always at the bottom of the stand-
ings.
The other owners told George Marshall of the
"Skins" to draft some Black players or drop from
the league. Marshall traded for Bobby Mitchell
and Bobby become a star. They started winning
more games.
During the last NFL player strike, Joe Gibbs,
Redskins Coach, went into the ghettos to teach
Bible School every day until the strike was over.
The Redskins won the Super Bowl that short
season.
Some bigot will say "Let the NFL whites play
alone."
Don’t kid yourself, the NFL whities don’t want
to see their playing buddies embarrassed and
would not show up if the Black players were
insulted.
One Nation, under God,
People blessed with Peace.
Killing the young over culture!
Killing the poor for money!
There are no political cartoons
found by me to be funny.
Passive gift from God we see
while turning away not on bended knee!
So to the world I cry my plea,
Peace on Earth! Let it be!
Clay Cooper, January 13, 1991
A note to the editor accompanied that brief verse on Monday
morning. "I expressed some personal feelings about the pos-
sibi'ity of yet another senseless war," young Clay Cooper writes.
"Perhaps it can be placed somewhere in our local newspaper in
some form. Thank you for your time." And so it is done.
Clay is a senior in Canadian High School, at an age
when war or the threat of a war becomes peculiarly per-
sonal and ominously real...as it should be to all of us. Some
young men who have been his classmates, and team-
mates, are already on duty with the military services in
what maybe tomorrow’s battle field. Others may be...soon.
As this is written, only hours before the January 15 deadline
set by our President for the firing to begin in earnest, none of us
knows what tomorrow may bring. By the time this is in print, we
may know for certain, or we may be still waiting. It is an uncertain
time. Those of us who are older have known these moments
before. For young people of Clay’s age, this is a first time. For all
of us, it may not be the last. Experience does not make it easier
to bear.
Most political cartoons have not been found by me to be
funny, either. They’re not intended to be...not these which
appear regularly in The Record, anyway. Cartoonists, the
good ones, anyway, and editorial writers (the good ones)
are not trying to make their readers laugh...they’re trying
to make them think. If they give you a chuckle, that’s a
bonus; but if they make you see through the sham and
chicanery of politics and politicians and recognize the
ridiculousness (and sometimes the sheer idiocy) of the
public positions they assume, they’re performing a public
service.
There is nothing funny about war. It is deadly serious busi-
ness, and deadly...make no mistake about that. But that doesn’t
mean that there’s no humor in combat situations. There has to
be something to laugh about now and then, if we are to keep our
sanity. Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying. Hang
onto your sense of hum or...it’s the one sure defense we have
against hypocrisy.
Of course there’s nothing funny about the fanaticism of
Saddam Hussein...any more than there is about the
Continued on Page 4
LAWYER is the only man in whom ig-
Aaknorance of the law is not punished. —
Elbert Hubbard.
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1991, newspaper, January 17, 1991; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth738783/m1/2/?q=jane+long: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.