Dudley says he ``was a minority'';
``I heard him say he 'understood what it was like to be a minority because he had played in the NBA,'' recalls state Rep. Lew Frederick, the only African-American man in the Oregon Legislature.
Besides noting that for once, the big boys were having as much trouble scaring up capital as they were, he stated his support for the minority tax certificate and enforcement to combat No Urban and No Hispanic dictates.