I have a Jackie Robinson autograph Got it at Ebbets Field in BrooklynAre 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.
Ha ha ha, you can't change the fact the Robinson was a Republican for most of his life, and that he along with another Republican worked together to break the color barrier. They did it as REPUBLICANS!
Uhnh nnnnnnno. They didn't. They did it as baseball people. One as a player, the other as a GM. Breaking the "gentlemen's agreement" never required any politics at all. Prove me wrong. Show the class where anybody's political party made that color line go away. For that matter show the class where anybody's political party kept it there for 60 years in the first place. Especially considering there were no MLB teams in the South until 1966.
This should be fun.
I was a Democrat for years, then changed to Independent in the early 1990's, NEVER was a republican [sic] at anytime, people do change because of something, but Robinson was NEVER a Democrat....
Didn't say he was, wouldn't know and wouldn't care as it is (see above) IRRELEVANT. As is your own history. However it was **YOU** who wrote, on this board in this thread, that JR was a, quote, "lifelong Republican", and then presented a link that contradicted that. All I did was read your link. You made a claim and shot it in the foot, all in the same post. I guess it's a talent.
Thus you have little here to work with but YOU can't deny that it was the Republicans who broke the color barrier.....
Sure I can. ANYBODY can. Another job for Captain Obvious.
"Republican" is not some kind of species. It's a political party. It's used for running for an office. And once AGAIN there was no political party, no election, no referendum, no political office, nothing political in the world at all, that broke the baseball color line. People IN baseball did that, by defying the unwritten "gentlemen's agreement". Which was never a law and never a political position. And ergo required no politics and no parties to either sustain or abolish.
Again --- prove me wrong.
By the way I read my link, you are dishonest here.....
I actually QUOTED your link. Verbatim.
But hey since you're so fond of Ass-ociation Fallacies you might want to consider that Bill Veeck was positioned to do the Branch Rickey before Rickey did it. He described getting into position to buy the sad-sack Phillies in 1943 and stock it with players from the Negro Leagues. Aaaand cut mad scramble to find out what Bill Veeck's political party affiliation was, and brace yourself for the possibility that like most people --------- he didn't have one. Because (AGAIN) you don't need a political party to run a baseball team. Technically you don't even need one to run for office (e.g. Bernie Sanders, Angus King). On the other hand if you're not running for office, a political party affiliation gives you no benefit whatsoever. And that's why more people have no party than have either a "Democrat" or "Republican" label. The same reason people who live in Wyoming don't tend to own yachts. There's no point.