Comments on: POW: Rachel Robinson Preserves Husband’s Legacy With Scholarship http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/04/pow-rachel-robinson-preserves-husbands-legacy-with-scholarship/ The latest Entertainment news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers. Thu, 02 May 2013 22:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tommy http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/04/pow-rachel-robinson-preserves-husbands-legacy-with-scholarship/#comment-5184951 Tommy Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:00:15 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/?p=288005#comment-5184951 What is wrong if the decision to integrate was economic? That's really the bottom line with everything...the money. Affect their wallet and change will come, until then you cant rely on good nature n stuff...no way. What is wrong if the decision to integrate was economic? That’s really the bottom line with everything…the money. Affect their wallet and change will come, until then you cant rely on good nature n stuff…no way.

]]> By: MaybeONEday http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/04/pow-rachel-robinson-preserves-husbands-legacy-with-scholarship/#comment-5166521 MaybeONEday Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:30:41 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/?p=288005#comment-5166521 All the racial hatred Jackie Robinson went through on the baseball field, many who look like him had to endure on an almost daily basis. I've contemplated going to see the movie, then I get cold feet. I'm not ready yet. For the first 10 to twelve years of my life it was sometimes like walking on eggshell when the law was you'd better not break them. Any wrong word spoken could not only bring harm to the individual speaking them, but also his her family members. The law couldn't and would protect you from harm, because the law was a a part of it all. Just excerpts from the movie brought old memories flooding back like a tidal wave. Remember, Robinson died of a heart attack at the young tender age of 52 or 53. Surely all that racial hatred he went through just to play on a white baseball team played a significant role in his death. Integrating white baseball league with blacks, wasn't about America having grown a conscious on how they'd treated blacks for centuries. It was an economic move. As professional white baseball was loosing ground and interest with its fans, the Ne*gro baseball league was growing and taking flight. Maybe one day, but not today. I find very little solace or comfort the movie is being held up as a positive, progressive change of moving forward on race in America when racial hatred primarily against blacks has been on a strong comeback for over 2 decades now, and especially after America's election of a black president. All the racial hatred Jackie Robinson went through on the baseball field, many who look like him had to endure on an almost daily basis. I’ve contemplated going to see the movie, then I get cold feet. I’m not ready yet. For the first 10 to twelve years of my life it was sometimes like walking on eggshell when the law was you’d better not break them. Any wrong word spoken could not only bring harm to the individual speaking them, but also his her family members. The law couldn’t and would protect you from harm, because the law was a a part of it all. Just excerpts from the movie brought old memories flooding back like a tidal wave.

Remember, Robinson died of a heart attack at the young tender age of 52 or 53. Surely all that racial hatred he went through just to play on a white baseball team played a significant role in his death. Integrating white baseball league with blacks, wasn’t about America having grown a conscious on how they’d treated blacks for centuries. It was an economic move. As professional white baseball was loosing ground and interest with its fans, the Ne*gro baseball league was growing and taking flight.

Maybe one day, but not today. I find very little solace or comfort the movie is being held up as a positive, progressive change of moving forward on race in America when racial hatred primarily against blacks has been on a strong comeback for over 2 decades now, and especially after America’s election of a black president.

]]> By: red line http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/04/pow-rachel-robinson-preserves-husbands-legacy-with-scholarship/#comment-5164042 red line Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:24:53 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/?p=288005#comment-5164042 My son is going to see that movie,i hope he learns something positive,like i did when i was his age. My son is going to see that movie,i hope he learns something positive,like i did when i was his age.

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