Unfortunately, the announcement by civil rights activist andformer tennis star Arthur Ashe that he has AIDS makes anythingwritten or said on the subject sound like an obituary. Put that outof your mind.
Prospects are excellent that Ashe will continue a full andproductive life for some time to come, given the fact he has learnedwell how to live with this dreaded affliction for more than threeyears already.
How unfair can life be? We're not talking about sexualpromiscuity, filthy needles being stuck into drug-craving arms orheredity and environment here, but of a terrific man catching analmost unfathomable series of lousy breaks.
But Ashe has never taken a backward step. In the realm ofsports, Arthur was and is a Gandhi, a Martin Luther King. He neverkicked a door down; instead, with his words and actions, he talkedhis way in, then gained invitation without reservation. Just as Jackie Robinson was the man to spearhead the obliterationof the racial barrier in baseball, Ashe was the ideal man to lead thecharge for change all over, not just here.
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