Oklahoma Sooner Locker Room (various clips of Barry Switzer & Bob Stoops) – YouTube
I honestly never thought Oklahoma would remain this permanent rogue red dumpster fire historical footnote to racism in Richard Nixon’s Solid South.
I never would have imagined governors like Mary Fallin and Kevin Stitt would actually make George Wallace seem progressive in comparison.
Don’t laugh. After George Wallace was shot and paralyzed he became a much better man who viewed the world through a fairer, softer prism. You are allowed to laugh though when you consider how overtly stupid the state of Oklahoma was to re-elect Mary Fallin to a second term.
That was the precise moment I knew Oklahoma was headed for Hall of Famer unread imbred white trailer trash status. I knew..I knew…I knew, but I didn’t want to admit it.
Oklahoma is such a sports driven state… I figured the black athletes at both OU and with the Thunder would pave the way at some point in the state for gradual societal change.
Same thing with Coach Sutton at O State who I fell in love with on Day 1. I hoped Coach Sutton would be a part of the whole societal dynamic which would help Oklahoma emerge from the oil and gas robber baron days of the Gilded Age and actually at some point participate in the 21st century.
I hoped at some point the state would improve their educational system and get serious about not being a perennial joke to the rest of the country.
Oklahoma is never going to be anything of any consequence unless they can keep their brightest and smartest college graduates in state to contribute to the tax base with the higher paying jobs.
Anyway, I’m posting this locker room video to illustrate the beauty of team sports. There’s no black or white in a locker room in any team sport. It’s ‘Us’, it’s ‘We’… it’s about winning as a team. Doing what it takes to win as a team.
And that’s the part the white peckerheads in the Southern part of our country and throughout many segments of rural America have never come to terms with. They refuse to recognize the South lost the Civil War.
In fact, the South became even crueler with the Jim Crow laws during the Reconstruction period of our country’s sordid history in relation to race. Which is precisely why at that point the Great Migration of blacks took place with many blacks ending up in cities like Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Philadelphia….just to name four who went for Barack Obama and Joe Biden in overwhelming numbers.
Anyway…here’s some vintage Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops locker room scenes with their football teams.
I’m playing this to get in a frame of mind for the West Virginia game this Saturday.