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To: Kid Shelleen

How about demanding most major league baseball teams be run out of business? It took them until 1947 to allow blacks in the mlb.


4 posted on 04/26/2019 10:26:23 AM PDT by llevrok (Vote while it's still legal)
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To: llevrok
How about demanding most major league baseball teams be run out of business? It took them until 1947 to allow blacks in the mlb.

They still beat the NBA by three years. Boycott the NBA!

5 posted on 04/26/2019 10:28:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: llevrok

Flyers are hockey.


14 posted on 04/26/2019 11:06:53 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: llevrok; ExTexasRedhead

And below are two quotes from Kate Smith in 1945; BEFORE, I might add, major league baseball teams allowed “negroes” to play in the majors:

“It seems to me that faith in the decency of human beings is what we must have more of, if there is to be a future for all of us in this world. We read in the papers every day about conferences on the best way to keep the peace. Well, I’m not an expert on foreign affairs—and I don’t pretend to know all the complex things that will have to be done for a lasting peace. But I am a human being—and I do know something about people. I know that our statesmen—our armies of occupation—our military strategists—may all fail if the peoples of the world don’t learn to understand and tolerate each other.”

“Race hatreds—social prejudices—religious bigotry—they are all the diseases that eat away the fibers of peace. Unless they are exterminated it’s inevitable that we will have another war. And where are they going to be exterminated? At a conference table in Geneva? Not by a long shot. In your own city—your church—your children’s school—perhaps in your own home. You and I must do it—every father and mother in the world, every teacher, everyone who can rightfully call himself a human being. Yes, it seems to me that the one thing the peoples of the world have got to learn if we are ever to have a lasting peace, is—tolerance. Of what use will it be if the lights go on again all over the world—if they don’t go on ... in our hearts.”

Later that same year on VJ Day:

“Millions must be fed and clothed. Other millions must be taught an entirely new way of life: a philosophy which does not include aggression and cruelty and the absolute worship of a Hitler or a Hirohito. They must be taught that there is no super-race, that all men are equal and have an equal right to enjoy the fruits of this earth and the tranquility and decency to which the truly civilized subscribe.” Kate Smith

Keep in mind that there were a LOT of Americans - still revered today - who had no problem with Hitler, Hirohito or Mao. Oh, and people like Senators Robert Byrd, J. William Fulbright, Ernest Hollings and others who would not have made those comments 20 years later!


18 posted on 04/26/2019 11:22:36 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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