The dirty little secret that no one wants to discuss is that every day, from waking up in the morning until falling asleep at night, white people don’t even think about blacks, let alone plot to subjugate them, any more than they think about aborigines in Australia or native tribes along the Amazon. They don’t look forward to screwing them over, or setting aside a special place for them. They neither go out of our way to avoid them nor seek them out. They’re just not on our radar. They’re like anyone else, either someone we know, or another stranger.
They’re not that special.
From the opinion piece:
“White supremacy is pervasive and practiced subtly. Babe Ruth was a great white baseball hero, but he never had to face a person of color. He and Ted Williams made sure of that.”
Ted Williams
Williams interrupted his baseball career in 1943 to serve three years in the US Navy and US Marine Corps during World War II. Upon returning to MLB in 1946, Williams won his first AL MVP Award and played in his only World Series. In 1947, he won his second Triple Crown. Williams was returned to active military duty for portions of the 1952 and 1953 seasons to serve as a Marine combat aviator in the Korean War.
Didn’t take a knee during the National Anthem