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Michelle Obama On '42,' Which Tells Story of Jackie Robinson: 'I Was Mad Just Watching the Movie'
US News and World Report's Washington Whispers ^ | April 2, 2013 | Elizabeth Flock

Posted on 04/02/2013 9:48:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Dozens of D.C.-area students were invited for a frank conversation about race Tuesday at the White House with Michelle Obama, Harrison Ford, and other members of the cast and crew of "42," the soon-to-be-released film about Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.

"I know I was mad just watching the movie," the first lady told the 80 students assembled in the State Dining Room, as Robinson's widow Rachel, who is 90, sat behind her. "It would have been easy for them to get mad or to give up. But instead, they [met] hate—they met hatred with decency."

The first lady also said Rachel Robinson "paved the way for me."

"I mean, watching anyone go through what Jackie and Rachel Robinson did‑the outright discrimination they encountered at every turn... And you're left just asking yourselves, how on Earth did they live through that?" Obama said. "How did they endure the taunts and the bigotry for all of that time?"

Robinson told the assembled students, who sat in rapt attention, that her husband had just wanted "a full life, a decent life" when he was joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947....

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 42; baseball; jackierobinson; michelleobama; racism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Since the left loves comparing Jackie Robinson to Obama lets switch it. If Jackie Robinson came on the scene as the first black pro ball player and had a record worse than Bob Uecker, would we have ever heard of him again? That's the best way to compare Obama to Robinson.
21 posted on 04/02/2013 10:18:31 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Yet North American blacks are better off than any others in the whole world, by leaps-and-bounds. She should get on her knees and thank the Lord that someone captured her ancestors and put them on slave ships.


22 posted on 04/02/2013 10:19:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well." - Booker T. Washington 1911

23 posted on 04/02/2013 10:19:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: TigersEye

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.” - Booker T. Washington 1911


Thanks for that, Tigers Eye.

Mr. Washington was quite a man.


24 posted on 04/02/2013 10:22:03 PM PDT by laplata (The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hey! I call my dog moose and your comment is an insult to dogs and moose!!


25 posted on 04/02/2013 10:22:20 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: doc1019

Overt white racism has been dead maybe two generations now while anti white racism flourishes

But where they really had a chance was about black families and fatherhood and illegtimacy

Black young people worship that fool

He had their ear...and did not one thing to at least instill some shame back in them about their behavior...or lack of

He will answer for that when the roll is called


26 posted on 04/02/2013 10:22:58 PM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jackie Robinson got to the Major League by virtue of his superior ball-playing skills. It was no other entitlement.


27 posted on 04/02/2013 10:24:15 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then why are you and your husband Dems Wookie? That’s the party of slavery, genocide, internment, jim crow, segregation, KKK, etc.

Shame!


28 posted on 04/02/2013 10:25:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'm done with the GOP. Let them wither and die. We need to start over.)
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To: laplata

He nailed it 102 years ago. Apparently it was already a shopworn gig then.


29 posted on 04/02/2013 10:26:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: wardaddy

You can take a person out of the ghetto ...


30 posted on 04/02/2013 10:27:59 PM PDT by doc1019 (The rabbit hole that Obama is leading us down just gets deeper and deeper.)
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To: TigersEye

He nailed it 102 years ago. Apparently it was already a shopworn gig then.

For sure. They’ve just improved their methods as the population had been dumbed down.


31 posted on 04/02/2013 10:30:49 PM PDT by laplata (The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
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To: doc1019
I don't think Michelle 0bama was raised in a ghetto. She chose to take on the "aggrieved negro" persona purely as an ideological affectation. IOWs she's as phony as her jug-eared Kenyan consort.
32 posted on 04/02/2013 10:31:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: shibumi

Yipes, yipes and yipes...that is one angry woman.


33 posted on 04/02/2013 10:39:14 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: TigersEye

Great point. I just used the ghetto reference more as a state of mind that the current occupants of the WH seem to want to be part of their persona. (late, hope this makes sense).


34 posted on 04/02/2013 10:40:26 PM PDT by doc1019 (The rabbit hole that Obama is leading us down just gets deeper and deeper.)
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To: doc1019

I know. I was just expanding on your point not intending to criticize it.


35 posted on 04/02/2013 10:43:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Yipes, yipes and yipes...that is one angry woman.


And some say she might be president one day. I no longer think such things are impossible.


36 posted on 04/02/2013 10:43:36 PM PDT by laplata (The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her first date with Obama was a Spike Lee Movie...”Do the Right Thing”. So this is just one of her-same story, different day - “I hate whitey” gigs.


38 posted on 04/02/2013 10:47:16 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Pox

It’s a liberal white guilt movie and Helgeland, the director is an a-hole libtard, and so are the producers. Yes, I met him on a movie project here in L.A. months ago.


39 posted on 04/02/2013 10:56:26 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

oh I can’t wait til lwe get a CLASSY lady back i nthe whitehouse- Brign back the Bush women


40 posted on 04/02/2013 11:30:07 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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