What was the first darkie that you ever saw in real life?

When I was a kid there wasn't any at my school, none kicking about in the town that I remember.

The first one that I remember seeing was when I was mascot for Pools at about 8 or 10 years old and Keith Walwyn was centre forward for York.

Bloody good player he was too if I remember rightly, scored loads of goals for them and he was dead shiny.

I reckon I was about 13, it was the first time I went to Middlesbrough. I was shocked, never quite got over it.

Jeez, that must have been about 1970 .....

duck truman's dad on the headland

the one wi the tash who used to walk greyhounds - sort of a cross between phil lynott n derek griffiths

I reckon watchin desmonds or the cosby show as a nipper.

I've never seen one

Me neither but I did see the 'chocolate coloured coon' GH Elliott at the Royal Vareity performance back in the 30's so I suppose it's him.

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Him on the front of 'Exile On Main Street' with five oranges in his gob.

You read the question closely then?

He was one hell of a player, sadly no longer with us.

I always remember after York won the league with a record points score going to a dinner, where Denis Smith their manager, gave a talk and answered questions. Someone asked him what Keith Walwyn's best attribute was. Smithy scratched his head and said I'm not sure about that but he's certainly got the biggest "todger" I've ever seen!

Mine was the adopted Son of our local vicar who was Scottish. He made him go to school (Seaton) in a kilt.

I was at that match as well, but not in the away end. I didn't know where the ground was, so I parked somewhere near the centre of York, and spent ages walking back to it. When I did find it I went through a turnstile on the side of the ground, in among the home fans, just as well that we never looked like scoring, Walwyn and John Byrne tore us apart.

Getting back to the subject of slightly overtanned gentlemen and women (and only because I think this a pertinent observation of Hartlepool in that epoch), the first time I ever saw a black man was in Hart Road (that's Raby Road to you young 'uns). There was a crowd of kids buzzing all around him in shock and surprise because they didn't understand what he was.
Sorry to say I joined them.
In my defence all I can say is never realised they walked the streets outside of Tarzan films. I blame the schoolteachers. They never warned us about racism.

So are we saying that black people's only contribution to society are their large penis's?

I can honestly say I dont know, being 26 it never occurred to me to make a mental note of the first time I saw a minority in the country be it a Chinese, Indian person.

My aunty who is about 67 told me a story about when she was little that utterly shocked me. She lived around the supporters club and a west Indian bloke who i think lived in Mayfair st called Albert. She said everyone called him Nigger Albert "oh well it was a term of endearment" she honestly couldn’t and still cant see what’s wrong with it and the fact its a derogatory term like WOG etc

I thought there were more of us than that at York that day... funny how we all remember things differently!!!
I can remember us singing" The football League is upside down" like