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This thread is yet another attempt to highlight institutionalized racism in America, and to seek justice for the Martin family. People who want to make a martyr of George Zimmerman are welcome to start their own threads; there's plenty of room on this forum. This thread is started in order to acknowledge the country's racism and attempt to rise above it.
Sanford, Florida has made headlines for its bigotry before.
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But Sanford, Florida, does have its own history and it includes a collective moment of intolerance and bigotry that almost derailed the man Martin Luther King Jr. called “a freedom rider before freedom rides,” Jackie Robinson.
Before Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color line in 1947 as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he spent a season desegregating the minor leagues, playing for the Dodgers AAA team, the Montreal Royals. The Royals held Spring Training in Sanford.
Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey, after so many years, thought he knew Florida. He believed that Robinson’s presence could go over if efforts were taken to ruffle as few feathers as possible. Robinson, on Rickey’s instructions, didn't try to stay at any Sanford hotels. He and his wife didn’t eat out at any restaurants not deemed “Negro restaurants." He didn't even dress in the same locker room as his teammates.
Rickey thought that would be enough. He thought he knew Florida. But he didn't know Sanford.
[quote=Evenstar51;23562679]This thread is yet another attempt to highlight institutionalized racism in America, and to seek justice for the Martin family. People who want to make a martyr of George Zimmerman are welcome to start their own threads; there's plenty of room on this forum. This thread is started in order to acknowledge the country's racism and attempt to rise above it.
Sanford, Florida has made headlines for its bigotry before.
Quote:
But Sanford, Florida, does have its own history and it includes a collective moment of intolerance and bigotry that almost derailed the man Martin Luther King Jr. called “a freedom rider before freedom rides,” Jackie Robinson.
Before Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color line in 1947 as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he spent a season desegregating the minor leagues, playing for the Dodgers AAA team, the Montreal Royals. The Royals held Spring Training in Sanford.
Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey, after so many years, thought he knew Florida. He believed that Robinson’s presence could go over if efforts were taken to ruffle as few feathers as possible. Robinson, on Rickey’s instructions, didn't try to stay at any Sanford hotels. He and his wife didn’t eat out at. any restaurants not deemed “Negro restaurants." He didn't even dress in the same locker room as his teammates.
Rickey thought that would be enough. He thought he knew Florida. But he didn't know Sanford. [end quote]
It is a very sad and telling history. I find it strange that blacks would migrate to such a place where people wore/wear bigotry on their sleeve. Although, a few of the people that sat on the commision board that gave the no confidence vote for the police chief were black. I guess the city has made some progress through the years.
Yawn.So Sanford hasn't changed since the Jim Crow days. That's a lie but expected from a struggling liberal rag like the Nation. Develop yourself and the rest will follow.
This thread is yet another attempt to highlight institutionalized racism in America, and to seek justice for the Martin family. People who want to make a martyr of George Zimmerman are welcome to start their own threads; there's plenty of room on this forum. This thread is started in order to acknowledge the country's racism and attempt to rise above it.
Sanford, Florida has made headlines for its bigotry before.
It is a very sad and telling history. I find it strange that blacks would migrate to such a place where people wore/wear bigotry on their sleeve. Although, a few of the people that sat on the commision board that gave the no confidence vote for the police chief were black. I guess the city has made some progress through the years.
Some, but clearly not enough. Jackie Robinson lived to become a true American hero. We'll never know what Trayvon Martin might have accomplished. It's a "sad and telling history" indeed.
Yawn.So Sanford hasn't hanged since the Jim Crow days. That's a lie but expected from a struggling liberal rag like the Nation. Develop yourself and the rest will follow.
So Sanford hasn't "hanged" since the Jim Crow days? That's a revealing Freudian slip.
Stretch Armstrong would be proud. Stupid premise indeed.
I think the OP is attempting to point out that even a famous and idolized American such as Jackie Robinson had racial problems and had to deal with bigotry while in Sanford.
I think the OP is attempting to point out that even a famous and idolized American such as Jackie Robinson had racial problems and had to deal with bigotry while in Sanford.
Other than assuming white people are murdering racists before the facts are known, what makes you think this Treyvon Martin didn't cause his own demise?
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