Robert Griffin III: Jackie Robinson breaking color barrier not political

[Yinny]

This is stupid. Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier was absolutely political, because it was a direct challenge to a political system built on segregation. You can't ignore that the barriers he faced were being upheld by laws and policies, and the resistance to integrating baseball wasn't just from fans, but from politicians and institutions, too. Stop trying to sanitize Black history to justify its erasure.

It’s alarming and frustrating how easily people can be deluded into separating historical events from their real, dangerous contexts especially for Black people as if they happen in vacuums apart from the society they took place in.

 

[3rdWorld]

Black anti Black sentiment is common place these days, and the extent of such simular sentiments could be far more commonplace than originally imagined.

The number of Black people who've thrown in the towel is staggering, and those thinking they have Black allies in a final showdown are in for a huge nasty surprise.

Think of the Black youth coming up today..where are the strong positive Black people and imagery in media to steer their minds the right way and not clown like these??

 

[Bleed The Freak]

This dude doesn't speak up at all about Trump being paraded at the Super Bowl but suddenly got some smoke for Jackie Robinson. He's routinely paraded around at UFC events and at NASCAR as well

Keep politics outta sports my ass

 

[3rdWorld]

This dude doesn't speak up at all about Trump being paraded at the Super Bowl but suddenly got some smoke for Jackie Robinson. He's routinely paraded around at UFC events and at NASCAR as well

Keep politics outta sports my ass

He's an Agent Koon..
The worst kind of koon.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

He's an Agent Koon..
The worst kind of koon.

Yeah I don't throw these out very often because I try not to play that game but it's pretty obvious he's acting on behalf as a spokesman and he's being used as puppet. Or he hates himself.

You can see it with your own two eyes

Absolute filth have some self pride. He's always got smoke for something black

 

[Unbothered]

RG3, just like many other Black NFL players, are cac ass-kissers who're usually afraid to rock the boat and ruffle feathers, Robert saying this in regards to Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier is an example of that mentality.

He's one of those...

“There's only one race, the human race” type of fools; politics and sports have always had a relationship; cacs just don't like it when it involves Black people and highlights the injustice committed by white people, the American system, law enforcement, etc.

RG3 is the type of Black person who gets an attitude and tries to hush you up when you start speaking on particular topics (race, police brutality, racism, etc.) that make his cac friends, coworkers, and associates uncomfortable.

 

[dontreadthis]

I mean anybody on this type of humor with their white wife.......

 

[King Poetic]

If a real black person working at ESPN you probably was walking around like every time seeing RG3, Sage Steele and Stephen A Fetchit on air making us look foolish

 

[Swirv]

I understand what he’s trying to say. This history shouldn’t be caught up in Donald Trump’s campaign against DEI. So the next president comes in and erased Ty Cobb (known mega racist) from all federal records?

90 years ago, Detroit Tigers legend Ty Cobb challenged myths of being maniacal racist

Detroit Tigers legend Ty Cobb carries a complicated legacy. But 90 years ago, he christened Hamtramck Stadium in honor of the Negro Leagues.

www.freep.com

Cindy Cobb put her family’s background in perspective.

“Race was never an issue in our family and my dad always spoke very highly of Granddad,” she said. "People assume that Ty Cobb must have been a racist because he was raised in Georgia in the 1880s. In fact, he descended from a long line of abolitionists. As Charlie Leerhsen discovered, Ty’s great-grandfather was a minister who was run out of town for preaching against slavery. His grandfather refused to fight in the Confederate army because of slavery. His father was an educator and Georgia state senator who spoke up for his black constituents and whose political career was in part cut short for having broken up a lynch mob.”

Historic day in May

On May 11, 1930, before a crowd of 10,000 fans at the new brick, steel and concrete structure built by Roesink, a white Detroit businessman, Cobb helped christen Hamtramck Stadium by throwing out the ceremonial first pitch to Dr. Rudolph Tenerowicz, mayor of Hamtramck. The Stars launched their new ballpark in grand fashion by sweeping a doubleheader against the Hamtramck Giants, 11-0, and Cuban Stars, 7-4.

According to "Voices from the Pastime," a selection of baseball oral histories published in 2000, former Stars infielder Bobby Robinson remembered Cobb coming to watch a game in 1929, interacting and sharing stories with players in the dugout. Robinson recalled that “there wasn’t a hint of prejudice in Cobb’s attitude.” (The year before the opening of Hamtramck Stadium, Cobb weighed in on the Detroit mayoral race, endorsing John W. Smith over Charles Bowles, who was heavily backed by the Ku Klux Klan.)

 

[BaggerofTea]

Black anti Black sentiment is common place these days, and the extent of such simular sentiments could be far more commonplace than originally imagined.

The number of Black people who've thrown in the towel is staggering, and those thinking they have Black allies in a final showdown are in for a huge nasty surprise.

Think of the Black youth coming up today..where are the strong positive Black people and imagery in media to steer their minds the right way and not clown like these??

 

[Elim Garak]

If was a real black person working at ESPN you probably was walking around like every time seeing RG3, Sage Steele and Stephen A Fetchit on air making us look foolish

Don't you mean MAGA Misty Stone?

 

[valet]

 

[3rdWorld]

RG3, just like many other Black NFL players, are cac ass-kissers who're usually afraid to rock the boat and ruffle feathers, Robert saying this in regards to Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier is an example of that mentality.

He's one of those...

“There's only one race, the human race” type of fools; politics and sports have always had a relationship; cacs just don't like it when it involves Black people and highlights the injustice committed by white people, the American system, law enforcement, etc.

RG3 is the type of Black person who gets an attitude and tries to hush you up when you start speaking on particular topics (race, police brutality, racism, etc.) that make his cac friends, coworkers, and associates uncomfortable.

The NFL if full of big muscular men, but lack the testicular fortitude to match..I dont know what it is, but theres something in the water they drink over there. The NBA has its fair share of Koons, but the NFL takes the cake.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Nah. Jackie Robinson being brought up and removed is nothing other then political. His accomplishments are being thrown in as part of DEI. Which is political. Even though Jackie Robinson was decades before any of this DEI made up mess. It was political in the first place that he was the 1st Black man in MLB cause politics kept Black people out of it in to begin with.

If it wasnt political, then only one 'side' wouldnt be trying to do this.

And anyone who cant see that and is trying to make ANY excuse for this idiot, who works in sports , is black and had a degree in political science, needs help.

Spot on.

It's being used politically

 

[hashmander]

RGIII is the type of black person that gets the ron dekkklantis of the world thinking about how he came to be: 1) child of career military parents who was raised to not think about race in anyway in his home life and base education life. 2) learns the right version of politics at a conservative christian university.

so they get to thinking we need to get rid of all these divisive "racial history" things in our educational curriculum and we'll get more of the black people we like seeing.