Globetrotters

We don't have much of this anymore.  It used to be common in baseball as well, as in the Indianapolis Clowns, who even Hank Aaron had to play for early on to get noticed. It was not only a vehicle for black athletes to have an actual job and to show their skills, but to play out our racial conflicts, where blacks would push the boundaries of their stereotype and get to make fun of white people, but not stray too far over those borders. People were being instructed without realising it.