41.   For many people who live near Piedmont Park, Freaknik is less a racial issue than one of noise, gridlock and inconvenience.

42.   Green, a former Atlanta Falcon, writes clean prose about dirty doings and is not afraid of examining racial issues in sports.

43.   He brings up racial issues before almost every audience.

44.   Green, the former Falcons player, said the current crop of racial issues could prove to be even more challenging than racial barriers of the past.

45.   He addressed the racial issue straightforwardly, striving to increase the proportion of blacks and the sensitivity of whites.

46.   He is also one of the few black television and film writers whose work is often unrelated to racial issues.

47.   He is also well-versed in the technique of public protest and has carved a niche for himself locally by becoming a media-savvy spokesman on racial issues.

48.   He had stayed largely aloof from the racial issue, declining to push for civil rights legislation lest he alienate Southern Democrats in Congress.

49.   He insists he does not see this as a racial issue, but of course he does.

50.   He thinks some parents view the comics page as being for light-hearted, fun topics, not as a forum to deal with prickly racial issues.