“WHY BLACKS DON’T SURF,” BY EARL OFARI, H20 MAGAZINE (1979)

“Why Blacks Don’t Surf” ran in the Summer 1979 issue of L0s Angeles-based H20 magazine. Writer Earl Ofari, 24, was then the Public Affairs Director for radio station KPFK, and has since written more than a dozen books on race, culture, and politics. This text below has been slightly edited.   *  *  *  “I was…