I remember white pool halls and black pool halls. Somehow black guys that could play well got much whiter than bangers! When I had worn out my welcome at most of the white pool halls around town I went to the black pool halls with a black friend who had been making laps of the white places with me. Apparently the main reason white men came was to chase black poon. Once they found out I was there to play pool I was welcome most places, not all. A few too many times the black gamblers gave me a voluntary guard out to my vehicle after playing because they heard somebody planned to cut me when I left. Had to give those places on the dark side of Baton Rouge up!
These days things seem pretty evenly mixed in southeast Louisiana with the local population being mainly what decides the make-up of people in the pool hall. I don't care if the crowd is mostly light or mostly dark.
Better tournaments are mostly white but the black players of appropriate skill level are usually there. I notice midlevel gamblers have little issue with race, green is green! All in all, race seems to be a nonissue unless somebody cares to make it one.
As a general rule, people go where they feel welcome. After a forced move after a storm I am still looking for a pool hall in Hammond, Ponchatoula, Amite, or points west Decent tables, nonsmoking. I have became highly allergic to cigarette smoke so that part is a rub sometimes.
Hu
