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Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social |
Thanks for Reggie Jackson for saying this, and contempt and defiance, in advance, to the worthless shitbirds who will say he shouldn’t have and that he oughta leave if he doesn’t like it.
Regrettably those worthless shitbirds are now fairly mainstream.
sports.yahoo.com/mlb-at-rickw...
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Jason Parton
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The current shitbirds are, likely, the children/grandchildren of the racist shitbird forefathers who were in Alabama in the 60's and they don't need anyone reminding the rest of us what a shitbird family tree they're a part of.
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Pyperkub
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the other thing is that many of the people who showered that hate on Reggie (and many, many others) are still alive too. They aren't gone. And many of them still working towards that past.
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Pyperkub
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And that was almost 2 decades after Jackie Robinson. smh.
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Chris Miller
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Great to hear Rollie Fingers was a stand up guy, not just the best baseball card to stumble across in the mid-80s.
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marythetrainer🦋🐢🤷🏻♀️😏🌎
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I saw part of it. So much respect to him for saying the quiet part out loud.
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Clyde "Two Ducks" Smith
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My family moved from ATL to BHM in the late 60s and even as a kid I could tell that the intensity of bigotry was off scale, right down to our teacher in Bluff Park saying on Apr05 that MLK was an agitator who had it coming. I've been trying to work out the reasons for that difference ever since.
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@backcountrylaw.bsky.social
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They shouldn’t have fucking bleeped it. When the man himself says “they pointed at me and said that ***** doesn’t eat here” you let people hear the ugly racist fucking truth.
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Rob Michlowitz
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My favorite Yankee/player of all time. A better person. Reggie, Reggie, Reggie!
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Melissa Hall
@vrimj.bsky.social
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This is such a useful lesson in why solidarity matters. Thank you for pointing it out.
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matthew green
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ah, "the good times".
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Steel Rat Gamer
@steelrat.bsky.social
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That was an amazing moment on television. Raw, unscripted, Truth and the props to the producers that let it play out. He not only called out the ones who called him an N-word and kicked him out. But the allies who helped him and treated him like the human he is
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Kevin Troope
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I wish I had heard these stories from Jackson when I was growing up and watching him play. It would have probably changed a lot of things. I get why he didn't, but glad he is now. (Haven't read story yet)
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Fountainhead this
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I hate that Yahoo and others have bleeped Reggie. Here is a clip, unfortunately from Twitter, that is not bleeped. He also posted a longer clip with the fuller comments but unfortunately that one is bleeped.
x.com/Ben13Porter/...
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Mitchell Epner
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My wife had the opportunity to meet Mr. October in California in the 1980s (before I met her). He was (in her words) handsome, brilliant, built like a brick house and a great storyteller. I'm so glad that he shared the truth about how Jim Crow was daily violence to those under its thumb.
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Kim
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MAGA is salivating to go back to this time and sooner, like the 50's.
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Noah Brand
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Was it me, or was the big fella to the right of Mr. Jackson almost in tears? He was looking pretty choked up by about halfway through the speech.
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Bryan Sullivan
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I missed the prime of Reggie's career, but I mostly thought of him as an ego-driven jock. Today I'm a much bigger fan of Reggie than I was yesterday. We never truly understand what someone else has been through.
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Winged Hussar
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That was awful. I can't imagine anyone surviving that with their heart intact.
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Devilpants
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"Leave if you don't like it" is super funny because I know how racists act when they run out of minorities to oppress -- they turn on each other, or even invent whole new minorities, or engage in never-good-enough purity testing on each other. Their whites-only paradise is pure fantasy.
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Antilles
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This interview broke my heart
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Francis Gasparini
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Friend of mine saw him play as a Yankee and heard fans yell the N-word when he struck out. It wasn't just the South.
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T.J. Rohr
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Have people been saying he shouldn't have said it and that he oughta leave if he doesn't like it? I haven't seen any takes like that, but I very well may have missed them.
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the legend in his own mind
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This really needed to be said. I'm glad he did.
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🌑Helena🌑
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There will be at least one comment accusing him of "making everything about race"
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Are You Being Detained
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Reggie Jackson is forever the straw that stirs the drink. That was powerful.
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The Cleric
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What’s especially jarring in this is that they remodeled it in a nostalgic style so everything, even the ads, have a 50s/60s look. So for Jackson it must feel like someone saying “We sure miss those simpler times when we could be racist without anyone getting in trouble.”
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@joshuabhoe.bsky.social
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It sure is funny how the same people who say racist stuff all the time are literally the same people who insist we are in a post-racial society
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Ray Radlein
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As I learned the other day, the announcer at Rickwood Field in Birmingham used to be BULL CONNOR
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Justin Noormand
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I forget sometimes that literally just over 50 years ago, not that long befitting I was born, it was this bad. This is just gut-wrenching stuff. I’m glad he got through it and managed to be one of the best players the league ever saw but no one should ever have to experience this.
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MoreWakkaWakkaWakka
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Reminded me of Willie Stargell telling stories of death threats to his face.
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CNY Big D
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I am shocked, I remember Reggie and it was happening in those times.
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BluesHiroshima
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Absolutely! To ignore this painful truth would have been a great disservice to Willie Mays and all the Negro Leagues players who paved the way for Jackie, Hank, Reggie, Tony, Mookie to be household first names to baseball fans around the world.👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
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DrGeophysics
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Never forget.
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Clark Starr
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I loved Reggie so much as a kid (I rebelled against my Minneapolis family and rooted for the A's). Hearing that Rollie Fingers was one of his allies is so cool.
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Tamara Keel
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But racism don’t real and even if it was it happened way back in the Before Times that nobody remembers.
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@kddean.bsky.social
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This was great and I'm very happy, and surprised, ESPN allowed it to air
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Nolan Zugernat
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I found the whole event amazing and moving and I can’t imagine feeling that without appreciating the awful truth that Jackson expressed.
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@jeffwask.bsky.social
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Johnny McNamara was one of my favorite Red Sox Managers growing up. I think even more highly of him now.
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Professor Furious
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Reggie Jackson is a boss.
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Stevie 🟦 🇵🇸
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Met him when I was 10 at a local LIttle League field opening. Nicest guy. Signed autographs for at least 30 minutes
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Mobius Stripper
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Also, imagine being the kind of person who thinks he can tell REGGIE JACKSON of all people what he should and shouldn't say. Like Reggie Jackson is going to care about their opinions.
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