Rex Chapman on Dating a Black Girl at Kentucky vs. Black Teammates Dating White Girls (Part 2)
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Former basketball player Rex Chapman revealed how his interracial relationship was received during his years at the University of Kentucky. Chapman, a White athlete, had a Black girlfriend, which was considered unusual in Kentucky during that time. He recalled how he was asked by a coach to keep his relationship private in order not to draw attention, a directive he found deeply troubling. Chapman deliberately defied the advice, hoping to provoke a public backlash that would raise the issue for debate, but the media avoided the topic. He also pointed out the double standard that existed, noting that his Black teammates were dating White girls on campus without any backlash. Chapman found the unwritten rules to be pure racism and struggled to compartmentalize his feelings between off-court emotional distress and on-court success. - บันเทิง
Man, from a man that’s made mistakes. You can tell he still feels a type of way about how he treated ol’ girl. Good on him for speaking on it
Worrying about who the next man or woman is with has always been crazy to me. It will be a great day when people learn to mind their own business…
Hear, hear...
It was worse back then.
Good luck Anthony
@@awee5816 worse now
@@whataboutsci8294 Even though there's always been hate people are more tolerable Now days then back then. There's even been a black president 🇺🇲 in the U.S. & to everyone's surprise 🙀😯 he's still in 1 peace.
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As a big ole fat white boy from a very racist family and community in Kentucky I married a girl who was not white and had to tell everyone GoodBye. 34 years later we are still together. Her family has been my family and have been great. So, i believe Rex. He is a not someone i like now for other reasons but he is right about the racism.
Who was doing all the racism?
Sounds like she picked a winner😂😂😂
Congrats on 34 years together and many more to come!
Genuinely happy to hear that and happy for you
You know who pink 🐖@@mr.nyceguy7800
Imagine being 18 years old and called into your coach’s office to be told you can’t openly care for the person your dating. This is a total violation of trust from the adult mentor you look up to. Sad, confusing, and pathetic.
... ... ... to say the least.
Mr. Chapman, appreciate you, brother. Who cares about race other than haters?
Damn, that pressure must've been crazy especially around that time in the late mid-late 80's in KY and being the star player on a collegiate team.
From what I heard Lexington really hasn't changed that much now, even Trevor Noah spoke on an incident he had in Lexington on one of his standups.
@@34blackula oh yeah, didn't catch that one.🤔
@@kendrickbell8525 It's in his stand up special, said a white woman came up to him and called him a good-looking ni**er right to his face like it was nothing. I can't recall if she said ni**a or ni**er though. Either way for her to just say that with no remorse at all is crazy. I've been in Ky for 10 years now unfortunately and have not had one racial incident at all. At least not to Texas standards lol.
Rex was the first freshman to start for University of Kentucky.
Jack Givens, Rick Robey, and Jay Shidler (at times)?
This is one of the best interviews I’ve seen
Most honest guy around
what muuuurrddaaaa?!?
Well you might want to ask Shawn Kemp about that.
Much respect to his game on and off the court. You're a real one Rex!
I'm from Charlotte and way back in the day i saw him and his black girlfriend at a upscale mall called Southpark mall and my girl was black 2 and I looked at his girl he looked at mine and he gave me a that's what's up look
Lol 😂😂
All while majority of the black guys especially if they didn’t know you would harass y’all. You know I’m not lien!
Cap@@williamwald9282
@@williamwald9282 harass you while having white girlfriends themselves😂the irony escapes them💯
🧢😂😂😂😂😂😂
Rex was sick back n the day🏀 ...
Im from Kentucky..my brother loved the Tarheels..I learned early
🧢 He was aight🤣
Love that you’re interviewing a LEGEND close to my home town. I live in Muhlenberg County Kentucky (home of Patrick Sparks, a Kentucky Wildcats guard from 2004-2006 seasons), 45 minutes from Owensboro Kentucky. The Bluegrass State LOVES REX!
Drakesboro here…home of Reggie Warford
Love Rex. I was a kid in Phoenix when he played for the Suns. Shout out everyone who helped normalize dating who you want during the times when it was looked down on.
It’s funny how when we look back at our 17 year old selves and we wish we could have one more chance at responding to a situation differently than the way we did
Very refreshing
Agreed 👊🏾
I played against the dude in a preseason game as a freshman,
And i literally got schooled
Rex was COLD back in the day
Wow impressed. It is such a good feeling to be a fan of a player then find out they have a good soul.
Rex and his sister were into black people. This was well known by people in my area. His sister (allegedly) dated a Cincinnati Bengal. I once called Rex "Hip Hop white guy's grandpa" on Twitter because he was one of the first white guys to have a "fade". He laughed and retweeted it.
They were telling him to stop being a 🥷 lover.
WhoDey
Yes she dated cornerback Lewis Billiups of the Bengals dude was light skinned 😂 I heard Lewis wanted to beat up or kill Rex. Maybe he talks about it on Vlad.
@@JesusisLvfds6400 why would he want to beat up Rex? Did you hear about that too?
@@mr.nyceguy7800 ...yes a long time ago.
He should not feel so bad. He was a young kid fighting 400 years of murderous racist history....
Nice racist comment any comment on blacks killing whites in Africa and if whites could be like that why didn’t you all stop them
Thank you for saying her name!
Exactly!!! Vlad is a disrespectful 🫏! Referencing her like she’s a chain you wear that’s sparkly 🙄
I had respect for Rex back in the day and I still do now.
REX CHAPMAN WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION
Reminds me of that scene in harold and Kumar. With Neil Patrick Thomas 😅😅
I've liked Rex Chapman for a long time. He's just a good dude. I never knew any of this stuff about his dating. Watching him as he talks about it makes me respect him even more. I'm about 3 years older than Rex, so I have seen plenty, but seeing this, at my age now, reminds me of a conversation that I had with my favorite aunt when she was in her late 70s. She expressed his you keep learning about life, even at her age then. At 60 ears of age, I am still learning life lessons. It feels good. Thanks, Rex.
Growth and Development continue even after the physical tour ends.
Shoutout to rex chapman... folks had that 3 ball for u... an nba jams was fire
Dude had a 40 plus vertical
I called him White Jordan as a kid.
46 inch wasn't it?
@@williamstiltner531 56
Yea something crazy like that I remember him yamming at Kentucky.
I remember in the summer of 86' Rex won the H.S. Slam Dunk contest!
Why is there such a double standard???
Because it benefited black players to be with white girls verses a white player to be with a black girl. Social , economically etc.
The woman he's talking about is my Aunt. Shawn Higgs, Rex is a really good guy. The Higgs & Chapman name is big in Kentucky. Vlad should definitely look deeper 💪🏾
Shawn 🚽
Is your aunt still a 🛌🔧??
@@melanatedwarrior3530 is your mom🤔
@@270higgs5 Ummmmm, is that what you call a clap back🤣
Your pops was a hell of a ball player
Shout out Alvin Robertson from Barberton Oh
Man that's just bs really to hear this shouldn't have to be like that
They should have done it on the coach's desk and left him a little sample.
If you go to Owensboro now, EVERYBODY has some mixed family members. Everybody there has some family of a difference race there now.
That could very well be true.. but trust me from personal experience, it doesn't mean that all of those family members like it, and fully accept it with open arms. You don't get to control who your blood is. Seen plenty of bigots saying all kinds of messed up stuff about other races, and then try to sugarcoat and say they have POC in their family. Means absolutely nothing. You might not like those POC in your family.. or you might actually ONLY like them because you know them and because they are blood, you don't consider them to be a part of others you don't like because you don't know them.
Facts
@@DavidJones-si8igthere are way more black racists than there are white in 2024
Or as George Jefferson said ZEBRA BABIES
No everybody doesn't not!! 🙄
Never knew he had to deal with the racism nor did I know he had a black queen but it all makes sense now because Rex had a little sauce in his game
He used to have 3’s!
This man killed my Sonic's in the 90s
I was a big fan of Rex back in the day. He was a helluva player.
Shawn put that black magic on Rex
What magic
Rex Chapman’s basketball card was a must have. IYKYK
Oh, IK !
So I guess if I don't kno I don't know
Indeed. And I still have it to this day!
No such thing as "reverse racism". Racism is Racism.
That wasn’t a “reverse racism” that was racism. From the dominant group to tell another person from the dominant group how to interact with someone from a minority group.
@@henokbaarez7464 I didn't say it was. I just pointed out there's no such thing as "reverse racism". Racism is just that. Racism.
@@abuhassan9321 ah. Yes. Racism has to come from the dominant group though.
If the opinion is based off of the color of someone's skin then it's racism
@@henokbaarez7464 dominate group?
He played for the Phoenix suns
& Charlotte
I dated a couple black women not even 15 years ago in the Chicago area, and others still give you weird looks about it. People are people WTF
I’m about the same age as Rex and my first girlfriend was black too. Honestly the most negative reactions we usually got where from black men, or at least they tended to be more verbal with their criticism. White people would just make a double take. But then I wasn’t a high profile athlete either.
this coming from the same pink males that made it against the law for bm and ww to be together for 400 years, all while still sleeping with bw 🤣🤣🤣.. the irony
Yeah must be so hard living a black manz world, not being allowed to date his women 🤣🤣🤣
He a ole Scott Van Pelt looking boy 😂
with a 40 inch vertical makes no sense 😂
Was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂
Baller
MJ would look the same if he wore glasses
I surveyed this guys property. He met us in the woods real cool dude I was star struck early 20s. Loved watching him during his Orlando days. Tough guy
Mr. Chapman gives a great interview. You don't have to listen long to get a sense that's he's a pretty good guy.
I always knew white athletic directors discouraged players from dating black women. This would make a good movie.
A buddy of mine played football at Clemson in the mid 80s and they were so concerned about interracial dating there was a meeting..which the black players basically said there are no black girls to date. So the AD went to the booster club ( IPTAY) and they started funding 100% costs academic scholarships for black females from South Carolina high schools. 😮
No they did not
@@SS-fb7zd you were there?
@@Biggdoom344 dude the white coaches did that shit at Oklahoma back in the day discouraged bros from fucking becky
Problem is it would be ruined by the leftist hollywood agenda with some shitty fake stories. Hollywood movies are trash and now just silly comic books with guys in tights acting like special effect morons. Just watch A Bronx Tale.
Vlad reads his wiki and calls it doing research….🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
To me he was the second most exciting player to watch in the league at that time. MJ 1. Rex has a lot of wisdom to share with the youth. I hope he has a foundation and is sharing his experiences.
College was always a mating ground
Has to be a hard thing to live with somebody who he would probably be with or married living with the unknown
I always loved Rex. Didn't realize he hit rock bottom. I'm glad he bouced back. He'd be a heck of a basketball coach.
He is still on the bottom
Rex learned his style of play at the same childhood gym I did.
Yes sir "Mechanicsville" Dugan Best 💪🏾
Please bring me up to date on what happened to them.
Fantastic interview! Did he marry Shaun? I see this is a multi part series...can't wait to watch the other episodes. Big respect for Rex Chapman...totally ashamed of the racism.
This dude was a hooper
Rex was the man!
This a deep story damn
Yeah, must be so hard being a whyte male, in a white male owned society 🤣🤣🤣
@@mr.nyceguy7800 wahhhhhhhhhhhh, how many times are you going to cry an play victim in the comments section baby?
Do your research and have a great day
I will give this man some grace. he was a teenage boy trying to find his way in the world and fit in. Btw everybody should date whomever they please. It is good that he still thinks about it with regret. it shows he has made the effort to be a better person. Love is a good thing and Love sees no color. Nobody should let a petty thing like skin color be a road block to love and happiness. I do hope the young lady ended up happy as well..
They don't call it UofKKK for nothin 🤷🏾♂️
A friend of mine Derek Anderson played for Kentucky and told us how racist Lexington was.
@user-se7hf3vm3v he lives in Louisville an we know some of the same people 💯
@@user-se7hf3vm3v or around Louisville lol
@user-se7hf3vm3v yeah D.A. is from an where I live in Louisville
Mark Higgs, great Miami Dolphin. Back to Back 950 yard seasons during the Marino years.
You finally dated Wendy Peppercorn. I guess the move of fake drowning worked
Underrated comment 😂
He was a real shooter he gave MJ fits on the court too, oddly enough lol
He was a scorer. Not a shooter. Similar yet big difference
@@JM-st6ut Rex was a shooter, who could score other ways. His jump-shot was sharp
He was good…he hit his limits in the NBA real quick though
No, he didn't! Nobody gave MJ fits!
@@themansince I watched the game for myself don't care what he says, he just being humble
This interview was totally unexpected!!!!!😮
This Is That "Get Out" Shit!
Lol.Peace
As a senior at UK and a transfer from ASU this is still the culture in Kentucky. Just how it is sadly
Your full of shit!
No it's not
How is it sad to stick with your own? Every commercial is trying to get you to mix, which is not natural. Call me what you will but I’m not sorry.
Some black men will never learn to stay away from Becky.
@@diabloblanco88Shut up. Two human beings together is natural. Fukcen morons.
VLAD has let the entire universe know he had a black girlfriend...😂
Yeah he expects to get some kind of cool points for that 🤣
He thinks that gives him cool points with black people.
Rex will always be a Washington Bullet
Ballhead like Jordan, he must be a fan!😂👌🏽😂
You can tell that he's really pissed about the dating thing.
Not really, he just pandering. Did he end up marrying a black female?
In high school Fathers would offer Rex money to take their daughters to the prom
Never knew. Rex seems like a good dude.
As a black man...i loved Rex in my youth...he was a walking bucket..
I figured it would’ve been the other way around tbh. The black male players would’ve been scrutinized and the white male player would’ve been okay
He's a great player PERIOD! dont like referring to him as a white player. But still to this day my number 1 white player ever!
This guy has some stories basketball, drugs, politics I am trying to give him a benefit of a doubt but when he was in politics he did some real bad stuff and as someone who lives in Kentucky it affected us all.
Rex was a baller
Mark Higgs played for the Miami Dolphins
Rex was a beast dude could shoot
6:19 damn that’s sooo messed up ! They messed this guy over
Last 🤬
He makes me wanna blow my tecmo basketball cartridge and play his character..dude was slammin' on ninjas 🥷🏻
Pause
LMAO@@thebettingpublicsportsshow
@@thebettingpublicsportsshow no Diddy
He makes you want to blow?
see you a real one lol. for the hornets. he was a god on that game.
You mean Coach Smith
❤❤❤❤
Your coach telling you to sneak around at night is crazy. The coach/player relationship is the most important one on a sports team. That’s the big authority figure outside of your parents especially during college. Man what a disappointment. It was all about getting W’s
Rex played like a Black baller he was tough! People are evil pure evil!
He was always one of my favorite players at UK. I didn't have a clue he was going through all of this.
You just never know what goes on behind closed doors. 😢 But this is Kentucky's mentality still that's one of the reasons why I stopped liking Kentucky. I still support Louisville and always will.
Bro is 56 years old...I thought he was latest in his late 40s! LOL
Wonder if Rex thought how much farther his college & pro career could have gone if his college community fully accepted his dating a black girl…..simply for his lifted spirits & peace of mind
This man was nice! Jumper was wet! Pause.
Disrespected mike .... wow he was ok
I respect him
LOL I commented on this in part 1. Just in case anyone is curious, Shawn is a cutie…
Kentucky was last to intergrate
Rex was singled out because he was the star they wanted to push to the nation.
You can tell that experience bothered him.
Got to admire people with power and money, Dean Smith had no issue getting Jordan to call Chapman and tell him how great NC was. They can make thing happen they way others can't
It’s only an issue if you let it be an issue
Ole Eddie Sutton was a piece of work... smh