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The Chicago Tribune ran a story about former University of Kentucky basketball player, Rex Chapman. He reminisces about the anti-interracial sentiments he encountered while in college in the 80s. Geez, not much has changed…athletes still get the brunt of the interracial dating hating, huh?

Former University of Kentucky basketball star Rex Chapman says school officials tried to stop him from dating black women, and asked him to at least hide the relationships to keep from inflaming fans. “There were certain aspects of my time there that were really ugly,” Chapman, who is white, said in a story published by The Courier-Journal on Monday. “I don’t know how it is today, but that’s how it was 20 years ago.”

“People were bothered by the fact that sometimes I dated black girls” he told the newspaper. “Most preferred that I keep it confidential and hide it.” He said he wouldn’t name names, but was talked to about it “at least a half-dozen times or more.”