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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2002

"Rod Steiner recalled the racism he encountered in the 1940s when he competed as a boxer.

The epithets and taunts directed at the American Indian sear his memory.

But it's even worse now -- six decades later -- because it's still happening. It's happening to young American Indians who compete in sports. Steiner, of Kansas City, Kan., keeps a copy of a Corpus Christi Caller-Times sports article from earlier this year when he was in Texas.

The story was on racial slurs directed at college basketball star Chuck Archambault. Archambault is an American Indian.

"Two generations have passed, and we're still getting stuff like this," said Steiner, a 71-year-old Santee Sioux. Like Archambault, Steiner was raised on a reservation; his is in Nebraska. Steiner said he was upset that the story didn't make national news. It was as if no one cared. . ."

Get the Story:
Lewis W. Diuguid: Racial taunts are no game (The Kansas City Star 5/15)