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Article: Black residents say race-gender issue at Augusta not the same.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2003
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Byline: Monica Yant Kinney
AUGUSTA, Ga. _ Just around the corner from the line of Lincolns and Lexuses inching toward the final practice round at the Masters, Willie Brown sits in a beat-up Cutlass Ciera with no place to go, no golf bags to carry and no hesitation when asked what he thinks about all this hollering over women wanting to join the Augusta National Golf Club.
"A man has a right to be left alone," he reckons. "It's been a man's club all these years. That's the way it's always been, and that's the way it should stay."
The sentiment isn't so surprising, except that Brown, 53, is black.
Across Augusta, African Americans say ...