Are you upset that they are actually against Jim Crow 2.0. It was folks like you that were pissed when they integrated baseball, so it is just par for the course.
Actually, Branch Rickey was a conservative Republican.
The leftists were the ones that opposed breaking the color barrier.
Actually it was white, conservatives that opposed breaking the color barrier.
The lies come pouring in, it was a Republican Branch Rickey who went out of his way to break the Color barrier, Jackie Robinson was a lifelong Republican too, he says so in his own book.
The Jackie Robinson Republicans
Stop lying!
Not sure where the book says that, and I don't see a quote, but I do see this -- in your own link:
>> Robinson supported those Republicans, such as Nelson Rockefeller and Jacob Javits, who championed civil rights, and opposed those in the GOP who ignored black concerns. Thus, in 1960 Robinson campaigned for Richard Nixon in his losing race against John F. Kennedy, citing Nixon’s support for the 1957 Civil Rights Act, which Kennedy and many other Democrats opposed. And in 1964, Robinson served as deputy national director of the Rockefeller for President campaign, as he had earlier served in Rockefeller’s gubernatorial races. When Barry Goldwater won the nomination,
and ignored Robinson,he became a political independent.
This should have served as an early lesson for the GOP. When a staunch Republican like Jackie Robinson loses faith, it should have raised a red flag about their relationship with the black community. Today’s GOP, which continues to be perceived as an enemy of civil rights, would do well to recall the Robinson story. <<
It does seem "he became a political independent" would be at odds with the phrase "lifelong Republican". Since that's all from your own link I guess your link contradicted itself.
J.R. actually
anticipated the infamous Southern Strategy, in 1963 --
>> “The danger of the Republican Party being taken over by the lily-whitest conservatives is more serious than many people realize.” <<
This was when he was souring on Richard Nixon, after pleading with RN to intervene to help Martin Luther King Jr, who had been sent to hard labor --- again in Georgia --- over a traffic ticket. Candidate Nixon passed on the idea, candidate Kennedy didn't.
Moreover,
from the same autobiography quoted here, he anticipated Colin Kaepernick:
>> 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. <<
So yeah, invoking Jackie Robinson here (who btw came from Georgia) is an interesting choice.