A big part of my formative experience was playing on my high school team, which was overwhelmingly Black players. The neighborhood I lived in was rightfully considered quite redneck, so I felt like I lived in two different worlds. I think that tension pushed me toward a heightened awareness of race for a white kid. But it wasn’t until I made that I fully understood that a deeper motivation for my wanting to do was because, for all my experiences with Black players as teammates, I really didn’t know these guys that well. I had little sense of their home lives and aspirations. became a way to understand something deeper about their lives through telling the stories of William and Arthur.
