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....
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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.
"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
“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.
Hey! I call my dog moose and your comment is an insult to dogs and moose!!
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
Jackie Robinson got to the Major League by virtue of his superior ball-playing skills. It was no other entitlement.
Then why are you and your husband Dems Wookie? That’s the party of slavery, genocide, internment, jim crow, segregation, KKK, etc.
Shame!
He nailed it 102 years ago. Apparently it was already a shopworn gig then.
You can take a person out of the ghetto ...
He nailed it 102 years ago. Apparently it was already a shopworn gig then.
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For sure. They’ve just improved their methods as the population had been dumbed down.
Yipes, yipes and yipes...that is one angry woman.
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).
I know. I was just expanding on your point not intending to criticize it.
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.
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.
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.
oh I can’t wait til lwe get a CLASSY lady back i nthe whitehouse- Brign back the Bush women
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