Kuhl Stuff

Ours was a "sort of" athletic family.---One football player, 2 baseball players ,5-6 tennis players and 6-7 swimmers.  As a not too big physically "Gringo"family  we were well represented.  With high school and "club" athletes comes responsibility.
At one time we were volunteered to take 2 male tennis players from the Corpus Christi area overnight.
Corpus Christi is an average Texas city in many ways. Probably 15-20 % black, 60-70% Latin American and the remainder Anglo. "The Valley" where we lived had fewer than 200 blacks from Rio Grande City to Brownsville and Padre Island.  We were 85-90% Spanish surname, and the remainder Anglo minus 150, more or less.  No exposure to blacks in our little family!
To prevent "culture shock", the evening before the expected arrival of the guests, I gave a brief lecture.
" These boys are to be our guests, and if they are brown, black, white or other color, it is to make no difference, they are to be as our friends and good people".  No questions at that time.
However, the next morning John said to his brother,"I hope none of them are green!"
They weren't! They were like the most of the "Valleyites".-- Like my hunting buddies, Nicolas Garza and Roberto Vallejo, Latin Americans.