Sports on the Ellipse . WDC . Sunday, 5 December 2004


		Sports on the Ellipse . WDC a Sunday Walk photo essay . 5 December 2004 Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography . 'Writings' . Ads



	With the exception of a few school field trips I would not visit WDC on a regular basis until the fall 1972 when a friend that I had met the previous summer would began his first semester at the University of Maryland in College Park. And even then when I'd first tell my family that I'd be driving up to DC with Tom who was white they would remind me that the '68 riots had only occured just a few years before. And then, too. it was not all that uncommon, back then, to here news of a black guy who had been known to associate with white guys and wjho later would be found beaten up or murdered ... somewhere. So when I began visit DC on a more frequent basis often taking the Greyhound bus up my grandmother would remind me that in her day she'd have to ride in the back of the bus. And just before leaving for school on Friday morning and since I would be catching the Greyhound bus that evening after school up to DC she'd grab ahold of my arm and almost beg 'you be careful'. Contrary to the image the many had of DC even back then it has never been as black as the projectionists will have you believe. And as I would tell my grandmother then "times have changed" since I had witnessed with my very own eyes white, black, brown, red and yellow folks (gay and straght) walking hand in hand in the streets of Georgetown on Saturday afternoon. And later that night we'd all fgo out dancing and partying and sometimes after engaging in sexual relations would return the streets of Georgetwon on a sunday afternoon before ending the evening withb a tea dance at the lostg and or Pier 9 UNDER CONSTRUCTION . Please excuse this misspelling . I'm in the process of brainstormin.

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