Giant Caucasian Athlete Understands Plight Of Downtrodden

“He wasn’t seriously making the comparison. In no way was it an attempt to minimize the challenges that members of the minority community face.”
 — A spokesman for Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley explains his boss’ remark that he understood the problems of minorities because he himself was a minority as a professional basketball player. Dudley, a white Yale grad, spent 16 years in the NBA.