Kalen and John,
I'm also a career basketball player, albeit a retired one. Overall, I'd agree with John that there's more prejudice on the basketball courts. However, like Kalen, I played most of my basketball in California, and most games there were color blind.
I have played in games where the white guys needed to earn respect, and were treated as inferior until proven otherwise. Good old reverse discrimination.
On the other hand, I remember walking from a hotel in Bridgeport, Connecticut, down to the projects, looking for a basketball game when I was a kid. I was about 18, and I was wearing a pair of engineer style overalls. I found a game next to a housing project, and settled in for a couple hours. Nobody said an unklnd word, nor treated me as unusual, even though I stuck out like a sore thumb in those striped overalls. I was a basketball player. For reasons such as these, basketball is the greatest sport I know.