Reggie Jackson keeping it 100!

[Rezn8]

I just wish he would have come out publicly about the racial abuse he suffered forty years ago when he was at the height of his popularity.
With his platform him telling the world how it is would have helped in the fight for civil rights greatly. That said I'm glad he exposed the bullshit, albeit years too late.

Reggie has been talking about these incidents for decades, going back to his Oakland A's days in the mid-70s. His autobiography was published back in the early 80s, and he wrote about his Alabama experiences in even greater detail than he talked about here. He talked about the racism his family faced when he was growing up in a mostly white suburb of Philadelphia. He talked about his time in college at Arizona State when everybody in baseball knew that he was far and away the best amateur player in the country, yet the Mets who had the number one pick in the draft refused to take him, one because he was black, and two because he was engaged to a Mexican girl. He's been talking about these issues for years.

He touches on some of this stuff in this documentary from when he was still in Oakland. He even talks about death threats he received long after he became an established pro. Cool documentary, by the way!!!

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[Rezn8]

Cubs great, Sweet Swinging Billy Williams, was ready to quit baseball because of the racism he faced in the minors. Buck O'Neil went to Alabama to persuade Williams to return to the team.

I heard an interview with him a few years ago, and he talked about it at length. He faced the brunt of it when he was in the Texas League in the late 50s, mostly when he was playing for the Houston Buffaloes. You hear a lot about Mississippi and Alabama in the pre-civil rights days, but 1940s and 1950s Texas was no joke at all! Actually, it still isn't.

 

[BlackGoku]

 

[Duece]

 

[BlackGoku]

There are many black folk still here that remember that vividly.

Really wasn't that long ago. My pops is in his mid 70s graduated from a segregated HS. People can whitewash all they want, but when you actually have people that LIVED it,. it hits different.

 

[Duece]

Texas was no joke at all! Actually, it still isn't.

In the hurricane shelters after Katrina, we would routinely be lectured by Black Texans about to expect in Texas.

Texas is no joke.

 

[parisian]

 

[OmariAmaru]

Used to see him on t.v. as a kid. Just was happy to see someone that look like me being a star. Can remember him wilding out on the field, scrapping. Just thought "Man, that's one angry black dude." "When i was a child, I thought like a child..." Never thought much about what was behind it. When I grew older and read books and stories about him is when I realized why he was so confrontational. Salute to Mr. October and all those who stood up and didn't take shit off those CAC

 

[Politic Negro]

 

[Politic Negro]

 

[Flawless]

All those racist are alive and well and you know who they are voting for.

 

[4 Dimensional]

Really wasn't that long ago. My pops is in his mid 70s graduated from a segregated HS. People can whitewash all they want, but when you actually have people that LIVED it,. it hits different.

Same. Pops was in high school when it was segregated and was drafted to the war right after. Somehow that suppose to make sense to these delusion CACs.

 

[doug777]

Really wasn't that long ago. My pops is in his mid 70s graduated from a segregated HS. People can whitewash all they want, but when you actually have people that LIVED it,. it hits different.

Even today, there are places that still have segregated proms, and cemeteries.

 

[OmariAmaru]

I honestly wish I didn't click on this. It is truly unfathomable to me how black people, especially ones from the south like this fool, have this blinded, skewed way of thinking in 2024. The really sad part is they're 1000's more just like him in positions of power that can change laws and policies to the detriment of us as a people. Defeat the enemy from within his own camp....or in other words, use his own people against him to bring them down, divide and conquer . In the 60's, it was people like William O'Neal. Today, it's people like Tim Scott. SMH

 

[Flawless]

Even today, there are places that still have segregated proms, and cemeteries.

All you have to do is go ona road trip, you can drive for hours through middle America and not see a black face.

 

[doug777]

When former Yankee Mickey Rivers was told Jackson had a 140 IQ, he asked was it out of a 1000. He also said he needed to wear back protection from crashing into the center field wall, trying to catch the rockets they're hitting off Catfish Hunter.

 

[Amajorfucup]

I just wish he would have come out publicly about the racial abuse he suffered forty years ago when he was at the height of his popularity.
With his platform him telling the world how it is would have helped in the fight for civil rights greatly. That said I'm glad he exposed the bullshit, albeit years too late.

I wish I could agree. I remember his "it's all about me" diva attitude and actions, an opinion of him btw shared by many of his teammates at every stop on his professional career. Now much of that may have been the result of jealousy but it can't be denied that humility never stopped Reggie from promoting Reggie first and foremost. But to be fair, I'm glad he talked about all the racial shit he had to endure, just wish he had done it many years ago when it would have helped other black ballplayers going through the same shit..

Imagine a 80 year old Black man having the courage to come on national TV and discuss his real life experiences with evil and how much restraint it took for him not to retaliate or respond in kind.. And some clown responding with a bunch of bullshit about his bad attitude.

#CoonOrHonkey?

 

[BlackGoku]

Shoutout to Rich Eisen...very good conversation

 

[DC_Dude]

Shoutout to Rich Eisen...very good conversation

This was good.

Rich Eisen is an OG

 

[DC_Dude]

 

[smoovejazz]

And Reggie grew up in BMore​

I remember that his mother lived in Baltimore. I also know people who knew him at Cheltenham High School in the Philly area, when he was starting to get attention for how good he was.

 

[slam]

it`s a few sly comments in here ...

undercover cacs keep exposing themselves ...

 

[DC_Dude]

And Reggie grew up in BMore​

Damn I didn’t know this.

 

[BigATLslim]

Your right back then he didn't have to talk black people the atrocities being committed against them because they already knew but white people didn't or say they didn't. That is why he should have spoken up more vigorously then to force white people to acknowledge the bullshit going on and not being able to hide behind "we didn't know". Reggie publicly speaking about it now while welcomed would have been more valuable had he done it then and I suspect he didn't because he didn't want to out there on that limb by himself; either that or he was afraid of the inevitable repercussions that comes from speaking out.

Man, if you had just started out with you didn't know what the fck you were talking about when it comes to white people, you woulda been good.

No African's job is to make a European aware of being the psychotic individuals they already are. That ain't why we here. Racism is not happen stance, it is highly intentional.

That man had a game to play and a family to feed and if we was going to educate CAC, his contract needed to be double.

Ninja, WTF?

"Force white people...man..."

 

[LordSinister]

Imagine a 80 year old Black man having the courage to come on national TV and discuss his real life experiences with evil and how much restraint it took for him not to retaliate or respond in kind.. And some clown responding with a bunch of bullshit about his bad attitude.

#CoonOrHonkey?

I really despise some of the self-hating coons, cacs, and bitch ass N****** that come here.

What part of it wasn't safe to speak out, let your play speak for itself don't they understand? The reason why cats like Bron can speak up now, was because of brothers like Bill Russell, Ali, Kareem, Jim Brown and others plowing and tilling the soil.

 

[Tdot_firestarta]

Never been a fan of baseball so I wasn't too familiar with the brotha other than just hearing his name mentioned among the greats...but the fact that was so outspoken and vilified for being a confident black man made me curious to learn more about him so I checked out his documentary on Amazon prime a lil while back.....shit was pretty dope and a must watch even if you're not a baseball fan

 

[bbuzzard]