Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson TELLS HARROWING TALES of RACISM in America!!!

[DukeU]

Is it only racism if the player fails?

Is it racism if it doesn't serve as an obstacle?

 

[Failzero]

He was in High School in the tail end of The Green Book era

 

[DukeU]

Then burn those people for it. It doesn't change anything in this thread.

You burn them, you're the race police right?

 

[WinterBorn]

He first played in 67 ( so he saw the Change from the past to the future )

Yes, he did. But the Change came slower to some places.

 

[WinterBorn]

You burn them, you're the race police right?

No, I am not the race police. Simply pointing out that racism happened is not being a racist. It is being a realist.

 

[DukeU]

No, I am not the race police. Simply pointing out that racism happened is not being a racist. It is being a realist.

It still happens....Against all races.

 

[WinterBorn]

Is it racism if it doesn't serve as an obstacle?

Yes, it is. If someone says "The ****** can't eat here" it is racism.

 

[DukeU]

Yes, it is. If someone says "The ****** can't eat here" it is racism.

That would be an obstacle, so yes.

 

[Muhammed]

Brother Jesse talks about an important answer given by Reggie Jackson to a simple question from Alex Rodriguez about being in the Major Leagues. Jackson chronicles the racism he was forced to endure at the hands of White people throughout his career.



Reggie Jackson is younger than my father, and I'm not even 50 yet!!

This answer should be instructive for people who stupidly argue that racism hasn't existed in America for a long time and act as though it is ancient history.

Those racist white people Democrats were very mean to Reggie Jackson.

Democratic party of slavery supporters are scumbags.

 

[Failzero]

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Yes, he did. But the Change came slower to some places.

Like Oakland ?

 

[MarcATL]

Well, I highly doubt that. Considering the actions of the empire of Japan and the third Reich. Slavery existing in parts of Africa up until the 1930s. No, we did not do bigotry better than any other country. Arguably the USA was the most liberal country in the world throughout its existence.

Ask an Indian What he thinks about the British. That’s just one example of many.

Here in 2024 we should have equality. Not racism from the left or the right. We have widespread racism from the left wing against white Christian men in this country. Major organizations, media outlets, Hollywood all giving easier access to people based on being a so-called minority. So much for meritocracy.

The sooner we have equality, the better off we will all be.

"For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular acts, and if we're good, moral people, we can't be racist - we don't engage in those acts."
-- Robin DiAngelo
Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/robin_diangelo_931796

"Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy."
-- Robin DiAngelo
Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/robin_diangelo_931815

"Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward."
-- Robin DiAngelo
Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/robin_diangelo_931792

 

[WinterBorn]

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Like Oakland ?

Or Alabama

 

[lennypartiv]

Or Alabama

So you don't believe in state's rights?

 

[WinterBorn]

So you don't believe in state's rights?

I don't believe in segregation and the systemic racism that I have seen in Alabama.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Jackson made his MLB debut in

in 1967......he played until 1987.....

 

[Meathead]

Brother Jesse talks about an important answer given by Reggie Jackson to a simple question from Alex Rodriguez about being in the Major Leagues. Jackson chronicles the racism he was forced to endure at the hands of White people throughout his career.



Reggie Jackson is younger than my father, and I'm not even 50 yet!!

This answer should be instructive for people who stupidly argue that racism hasn't existed in America for a long time and act as though it is ancient history.

Poor boy.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

No one denies racism exists.

Didn't seem to effect Jackson's career though, he was very successful.

Even with all of the racism he had to endure.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Poor boy.

Of course racist don't care.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

No, we weren't the only country with bigotry. We did do it better than anyone else.

No one is using any of this to gain an advantage over anyone. It is to tell the truth about how things were. Some of the greatest athletes at the time were refused basic services because of their race.

That's his way of deflecting and making excuses for racism and discrimination in America, you never hear any of these cowards claim Jewish folks weren't the only people to face a Holocaust, you never hear them claim Japanese Americans weren't the only folks put in internment camps, but their hatred for black folks runs so deep they will never admit the wrongs that were done to us. Someone needs to ask that idiot Franklin when reparations became a handout.

 

[MarcATL]

That's his way of deflecting and making excuses for racism and discrimination in America, you never hear any of these cowards claim Jewish folks weren't the only people to face a Holocaust, you never hear them claim Japanese Americans weren't the only folks put in internment camps, but their hatred for black folks runs so deep they will never admit the wrongs that were done to us. Someone needs to ask that idiot Franklin when reparations became a handout.

Oh that's easy..... whenever it came time for Black people to get them.