When uscfb and UCLAFootball have their 92nd meeting Saturday, it will be the first time both schools will start Black quarterbacks. “I’m definitely proud of (Caleb) just as much as he’s probably proud of me,” Bruins QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson says.
And perhaps the most heartening part of this milestone is that most people won’t even notice.
“The belief was always that Black players could not handle the rigors of the position, couldn’t read defenses … and that white players would not follow Black men because Black men were not leaders,” Reid said. “It finally changed for reasons of self-interest. When the money in this league became astronomical, these coaches and executives realized they had to win or get fired. They realized they needed a good quarterback who could no longer be judged by race. Green trumped Black.
The first Black quarterback at UCLA was Kenny Washington in 1937. At the time, the Bruins had been playing football for 18 years.starred from 2012 to 2014, he was the first impact Black quarterback at UCLA since Jackie Robinson in 1939, a span of nearly three-quarters of a century. “Several people said you need to switch your position because they don’t have Black quarterbacks,” recalled Jones. “The perception that Blacks can’t play quarterback goes back to slavery. Why would you expect anybody you enslaved lead you in anything?”“I’ll never forget, one Christmas Eve, some guys in dark suits showed up on our porch,” recalled McKay’s son J.K. “They were from the FBI. Threats had been made against us because my dad was playing Jimmy Jones at quarterback.
“I never had a chance in the NFL, and whether it was 50% racial or 100% racial, I knew what time it was,” Jones said. “I’ll always be a little disappointed.” USC quarterback Rodney Peete runs for a touchdown against Washington on Oct. 15, 1988, at the Coliseum.
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