35 years and still pioneers

Over at First Draft, Scout-Prime – who has done some of the finest reporting on many aspects of Hurricane Katrina – reflects on her own experience as an athlete and the class of Essence Carson and the Rutgers basketball team:

…it is sad to see in the year 2007 that someone as accomplished as Essence Carson has to stand before the nation and "finally take a stand" as a woman .... the very same damn stand we had taken so many years before as young women. How many generations will have to fight this fight?

I wonder what my team mates of years ago are thinking, feeling and saying of all this tonight. No I don't have to wonder. We shared too much, were too close. I know exactly what they are saying of Don Imus. I know they are immensely proud of the Rutgers women's basketball team for proving the point, for taking the stand.....for being the new pioneers.

Congratulations to the Rutgers women on a great season and Thank You for carrying on. It isn't right to have had this placed upon you. It's never been right. But somewhere out there is a young girl shooting hoops on a driveway or at a park......