For Tar Heel basketball fans, there is nobody alive more deserving of a day in his honor than Charlie Scott – so who could be surprised to hear about the “Charles Scott Day” planned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his signing with UNC-Chapel Hill as its first black basketball player?
Charles Scott, that’s who.
You see, nobody bothered to tell Scott that a day of events and fund-raising is scheduled, using his name and ostensibly in his honor.
“I found out from my daughter last Tuesday, when she came into the room and said she’d read on a UNC website that they were proclaiming April 9 ‘Charles Scott Day,’” Scott told me from his home in Atlanta last week.