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Divisive football clash reinforces color barrier at Penn State

Centuries after slavery and decades after the Civil Rights movement began in earnest, the color barrier is alive and well at Penn State.

“I know it’s not politically correct to say but I’m very pro white,” said student Jay Jemison. “I was raised in a predominantly white team community and really never met any blue team people until I got to college.”

Jemison said he carries no signs, but his head-to-foot white attire says a lot about his attitude.

“Don’t get me wrong,” Jemison said. “Some of my closest friends root for the blue team. I don’t visit their neighborhoods or anything, but we’re as close as second or third cousins.”

On the other side of the stadium, Sandy Canhorn, attired in deep blue, is unconvinced about the White fans’ attempt at cordiality. She claims at her first Blue-White game, she was forced to use the blue porta potty and had to drink from the blue keg.

“It’s one of those things, the whites talk integration and brotherhood and say we’re all Penn State fans,” Canhorn said. “But, at half-time, they’re back in their fancy motor homes, cracking jokes about us.”

Canhorn said in her sophomore year, she briefly dated a white fan, but the romance was broken up by the boy’s parents.

“It’s just sad,” Canhorn laments. “After all the years of struggle, we’re no further ahead than the last generation who attended the Blue and White game. It’s no wonder Fergie bailed.”
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