More groups promoting surfing in Black and and ethnic communities has helped more people feel welcome to share the water.
Justin “Brick” Howze has a saying: “You can’t be it, if you can’t see it.”
“They don’t realize they are part of a social justice movement,” he said of the beach partygoers who show up to the gatherings, with another planned for Sunday, June 18. “They are just out there having a blast.”Howze calls himself an “unapologetic pandemic surfer,” who like many others, picked up the sport in pursuit of an outdoor pastime.
That’s when another older surfer in the water butted into the exchange, calling Howze a derogatory, racially-charged word, shouting it out over and over again. Howze started hosting beach gatherings under the name Ebony Beach Club, a nod to a Black beach club in 1957 that never got off the ground because of government interference.
Costa Mesa brand Hurley has launched a new apparel line with with Black Girls Surf, a non-profit that aims at promoting diversity out in the water and in competitive surfing. Justin “Brick” Howze, who hosts “Beach Bounce” gatherings at Dockweiler Beach, was invited by Red Bull to the Surf Ranch in Lemoore, California a few months ago for his efforts to add diversity to surfing. The recently published study by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association, or SFIA, dug into surfing’s participation and demographics.
“The growth has been pretty significant,” he said. “It happened across all ethnicities, but some have a more interesting growth than others.”
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