April 15th: Jackie Robinson Day

[mhansen2]

Jackie Robinson Didn't Shut Up and Play Ball, so Why Should Today's Athletes?

April 15 1947. The best day MLB ever had.

 

[The Professor]

He was a great athlete and a damn good man. While serving as a lieutenant for the U.S. Army in 1944, Jackie Robinson was court-martialed after refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus. He was ultimately acquitted

“ON JULY 6, 1944, Jackie Robinson, a twenty-five-year-old lieutenant, boarded an Army bus at Fort Hood, Texas. Sixteen months later he would be tapped as the man to break baseball’s color barrier, but in 1944 he was one of thousands of blacks thrust into the Jim Crow South during World War II. He was with the light-skinned wife of a fellow black officer, and the two walked half the length of the bus, then sat down, talking amiably. The driver, gazing into his rear-view mirror, saw a black officer seated in the middle of the bus next to a woman who appeared to be white. Hey, you, sittin’ beside that woman,” he yelled. “Get to the back of the bus.”

“Lieutenant Robinson ignored the order. The driver stopped the bus, marched back to where the two passengers were sitting, and demanded that the lieutenant get to the back of the bus where the colored people belong.” Robinson refused, and so began a series of events that led to his arrest and court-martial and, finally, threatened his entire career.”

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson | AMERICAN HERITAGE

Jackie Robinson was a man who was blessed with incredible talent. He was also a man of extraordinary courage.

 

[tyroneweaver]

What about when a white player breaks into the nba?

 

[sealybobo]

Jackie Robinson Didn't Shut Up and Play Ball, so Why Should Today's Athletes?

April 15 1947. The best day MLB ever had.

I’m watching the movie. I can’t believe black panther played Jackie. First at back they walked him. He stole 2nd then third, then the pitcher yelled at him for not running back to third when he stepped off. Jackie fucked with his head and the pitcher balked. Jackie scored. Did that really happen?

 

[sealybobo]

He was a great athlete and a damn good man. While serving as a lieutenant for the U.S. Army in 1944, Jackie Robinson was court-martialed after refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus. He was ultimately acquitted

“ON JULY 6, 1944, Jackie Robinson, a twenty-five-year-old lieutenant, boarded an Army bus at Fort Hood, Texas. Sixteen months later he would be tapped as the man to break baseball’s color barrier, but in 1944 he was one of thousands of blacks thrust into the Jim Crow South during World War II. He was with the light-skinned wife of a fellow black officer, and the two walked half the length of the bus, then sat down, talking amiably. The driver, gazing into his rear-view mirror, saw a black officer seated in the middle of the bus next to a woman who appeared to be white. Hey, you, sittin’ beside that woman,” he yelled. “Get to the back of the bus.”

“Lieutenant Robinson ignored the order. The driver stopped the bus, marched back to where the two passengers were sitting, and demanded that the lieutenant get to the back of the bus where the colored people belong.” Robinson refused, and so began a series of events that led to his arrest and court-martial and, finally, threatened his entire career.”

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson | AMERICAN HERITAGE

Jackie Robinson was a man who was blessed with incredible talent. He was also a man of extraordinary courage.

Luca Doncic

 

[Maxnovax]

My grand said he called him a N word to his face he said Jackie’s coward like a dog

 

[sealybobo]

My grand said he called him a N word to his face he said Jackie’s coward like a dog

We live in a civilized society. Whoever called Jackie that isn’t civilized.

And in a civilized society, you aren’t allowed to put your hands on someone for exercising their first amendment right to free speech. So jackie did the right thing. Jackie’s a legend. He played it right.

 

[Maxnovax]

We live in a civilized society. Whoever called Jackie that isn’t civilized.

And in a civilized society, you aren’t allowed to put your hands on someone for exercising their first amendment right to free speech. So jackie did the right thing. Jackie’s a legend. He played it right.

Damn right.