Chess is racist. “Out of the 1500 grandmasters in the world, only three or four are black.”
I believe, traditionally at least, chess has status in black urban culture, I guess because of those tables in the park.
So 3 or 4 grandmasters? No problem. I’ll just bet those guys in the park were a lot better than me. I guess I learned early on that I didn’t excel at chess. That’s the nice thing about it. It’s honest.