[Buckeye McFrog]

ESPN's Howard Bryant (in photograph) claims that if Robinson was still alive today, "He would be facing the same sort of vitriol that Colin Kaepernick is facing today."

Not in any way true. Jackie Robinson was a proud American, a World War II Veteran, an intelligent, thoughtful, well-spoken man, and someone devoted to improving race relations in this country and not just throwing gasoline on fires. He would never have engaged in the sort of disrespectful behavior seen in Kaepernick.

Indeed, Branch Rickey chose him specifically because he would NOT engage in controversial theatrics.

[ethom]

Bryant will never admit racism is even close to ‘over’ because his liberal gravy train depends on it.

[Kazan]

Old-time black players that really did suffer discrimination, like Jim Brown, love the country and vehemently oppose Kaepernick’s anthem protests.

[Rome2000]

Yes and not only that, this jerk from ESPN is deliberately choosing not to notice the very large percentage of Latin ball players who have varying percentages of African blood.

Hell, the league is 58% full blooded white.

This guy is spouting nonsense.

[Dr. Ursus]

Also,he was a Republican!