QOTD: Jackie Robinson
by digby
Today as I look back on that opening game of my first world series, I must tell you that it was Mr Rickey’s drama and that I was only a principal actor. As I write this twenty years later, I cannot stand and sing the anthem, I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
That is the last paragraph of the autobiography of Republican, military veteran, American hero and sports legend — Jackie Robinson.
Donald Trump and his racist followers haven’t changed one tiny bit since that time. They don’t openly boo players just for being black anymore. But they’re always looking for any excuse to do it.
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