As a child growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1960s and early ’70s, Marvin Richardson lived through school desegregation and the racial turmoil that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He lived through the “fears and challenges” that came with being Black in the South, he said Sunday, and grew accustomed to “having to deal with that ignorance right in your face.”
“The things that you experience growing up, you always hope that your children don’t have to live through them,” Richardson, 60, said by phone two days after one of his daughters, a Duke sophomore volleyball player, became the target of racially-charged slurs during a match at BYU. “But unfortunately the world that we live in is sometimes cyclical.
“And you find yourself repeating the past. And so here we are.”
