Posted on 04/15/2008 8:11:30 AM PDT by bmweezer
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball. Robinson proved to be a stellar first baseman, and his Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Boston Braves 5-3.
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Is this a surprise? Like nearly all professional athletes, Robinson EARNED his position. This may be one of the reasons that so many of them vote Republican.
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Although Jackie was something of a RINO: he worked for Nelson Rockefeller and was a fervent Rocky supporter. Like many Rockefeller Republicans (probably including Lord Nelson himself), he supported the corrupt, amoral LBJ over Goldwater.
This is one of those things you’re not allowed to say.
Although Jackie was something of a RINO: he worked for Nelson Rockefeller and was a fervent Rocky supporter. Like many Rockefeller Republicans (probably including Lord Nelson himself), he supported the corrupt, amoral LBJ over Goldwater.
This is one of those things you’re not allowed to say.
Although Jackie was something of a RINO: he worked for Nelson Rockefeller and was a fervent Rocky supporter. Like many Rockefeller Republicans (probably including Lord Nelson himself), he supported the corrupt, amoral LBJ over Goldwater.
More very interesting info here: National Black Republican Association
There’s no doubt Jackie liked Ike but has switched to LBJ by 64.
I do like Jackie’s story because he made it in the face of all the contempt from fellow players and even the epithets of fans.
There were no “hate crimes” laws, thank God.
Jackie heard it all from the stands and overcame it to be a star.
I’m proud of Jackie Robinson for that because his story has nothing to do with political correctness, affirmative action, civil rights or diversity, etc, etc.
He did a lot to bridge racial division in this country with his character.
Actually, there were Black ML baseball players in the nineteenth century, then the color line came down.
I recall that Robinson, after retiring from baseball, was actively supporting Nelson Rockefeller in his gubernatorial campaigns in New York. Rockefeller was acknowledged as the leader of the “liberal” wing of the GOP throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. So Robinson by today’s standards would probably be called a RINO.
There’s quite a contrast in today’s baseball ownership, which, to the best of my knowledge, does not contain a single owner or ownership who can be identitified as Republican - not since George W. Bush left the Texas Rangers. Since Selig became Commissar, he and his minions have seemed to alligned themselves completely with the ‘Rats on Capitol Hill.
It was no accident, for example, that no less prominent a Dem than George Mitchell was picked to whitewash the steroid scandal, in so far as Selig and pals were concerned. By focusing their attention on star players, rather than the (excluseively Dem) management who for years quietly condoned, covered up, and profited from steroid use among players, Selig and company were able to emerge from the ‘Rat-controlled House committee hearings without significant damage to their reputations. The fact is that ‘Rat Selig’s regime has been a disaster on many fronts from the baseball fan’s perspective.
He was OUT? What difference did it make? The damn Yankees still won that game.
as it should be.
But, here’s the bad news for you as a Yankee fan: That photo was from 1955, the year the Dodgers finally beat them in the World Series!
But, here’s the bad news for you as a Yankee fan: That photo was from 1955, the year the Dodgers finally beat them in the World Series!
Unfortunately Goldwater's anti-Civil Rights stance cost the Republicans the great bulk of Black voters it had enjoyed previous to the '64 election. In 1960 Richard Nixon received fortyfive percent of the Black vote. Goldwater received a much smaller percentage.
This is one of those liberal historical lies (they DO know better) masquerading as history.
The fact is that Barry Goldwater had voted for every civil rights bill up until the 1964 one, which contained the seeds of wat would become the Affirmative Action program. Goldwater said it was unconstitutional, and it was. He alsopredicted that it would result in racial preferences an quotas and even made a gentlemen's bet with Senator Humphrey that it would. Barry was right, as usual.
Barry was wrong. He wasn’t a racist, but he was wrong on that issue, and he admitted it in later years. As did William F. Buckley. No matter how the bill was corrupted later on, how is the basic idea of equal rights for all Americans unconstitutional?
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Battle of the Bulge Operations Officer Capt. HARRY W.O. KINNARD’s suggested response for his Commanding General McCULLOUGH to issure back to a German World War II Ultimatum of Surrender at Bastogne in 1944
See 3rd Photo down of General HARRY W.O. KINNARD serving as 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) Commanding General for the 1st Major Battle for Freedom of the Vietnam War in 1965:
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