Imus in the Mourning of his career
The baseball season is about to begin…our national pastime! Exactly 60 years ago, every little boy in America read Baseball Digest. As soon as the new monthly issue touched their hands the kids flipped to the center page cartoons. Here is the Feb. 1947 offering (a month before Jackie Robinson began spring training with the Dodgers to break the color barrier): CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE
Were Americans really such blatant racists sixty years ago? You Betya!
God Bless, Mr Robinson. Your great courage proved that Blacks were more than equal and you opened the door for Mays, Aaron, etc…some of greatest players of all time…as well as for MLK and Civil Rights a decade later.Note: This issue is part of my private collection and I would not sell it for a million dollars. It is a grim reminder of how much real baseball history was lost because of a bunch of dumbass Bubbas. IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
Joe Biden breaks his own record for shortest presidential campaign
New GOP Whip Trent Lott
To some observers, the choice of Trent Lott as the new Republican Senate Whip may seem like a step backward for a party still reeling from its election drubbing. But in fact the upset victory by the Mississippi Senator, bounced out of his post as the Republican leader of the Senate four years ago after he made comments
praising then-Senator Strom Thurmond for his segregationist 1948 presidential campaign
(“I supported Strom. If we had all voted for him we wouldn’t have all these problems today”
…sassy minorities). The G.O.P. plans to move forward backwards again. Link to the article
George Allen, leading Senate Racist and GOP Frontrunner for the 2008 Presidential Election (until 9/19/06)
Yeah, George really made the pork chop/ham remark.Racism comes in all colors: 8/18/06
Asked by the Los Angeles Sentinel if he has concerns about Wal-Mart closing down mom-and-pop stores, Andrew Young was quoted as replying: “Well, I think they should… I think they’ve ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it’s Arabs; very few black people own these stores.”
RACISM IN AMERICA?
Candorville
Published by Greg at 05:49 PM on March 2, 2006