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    Jackie Robinson A Republican Hero, Say Republicans

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    Image of bizzo5000 bizzo5000
    10/14/09

    In reply to Jackie Robinson A Republican Hero, Say Republicans
    Nixon would be labeled a socialist/fascist and they would be asking for his birth certificate if he were around today. Oh wait, he’s white. Never mind.
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    10/14/09

    @bizzo5000: AND HERE'S THE RACE CARD! Is that all your party has now? You sure can't stand on any facts.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Jackie Robinson A Republican Hero, Say Republicans
    By today's standards, Richard Nixon wouldn't be thought of as much of a Republican. Afterall, the EPA was started under his Administration and he was in favored of some form of universal health care. Nixon was much more socially liberal than today's Republican.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Jackie Robinson A Republican Hero, Say Republicans
    "A new breed of Republicans had taken over the GOP. As I watched this steamroller operation in San Francisco, I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."

    You mean, like being on a train to Dachau? Yeah, I can imagine the tension.

    Is the Nazi meme tired yet? Apparently not.
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    10/14/09

    @wingdynasty: I'm pretty sure Robinson didn't just say this today.
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    10/14/09

    @twoeightnine: One would hope not. Perspective is seriously lacking in any modern discussion regarding race in America.

    /seen the ovens, searching for a joke
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    10/14/09

    @wingdynasty: No, not like being on a train to Dachau. Robinson was clearly talking about living in Germany under the Nuremberg laws. In the 1950s, this was a fairly accurate comparison to the way African-Americans were being treated in most parts of this country, from ghettoization to social separation to prohibitions against intermarriage.

    The Civil Rights Act was the most visible symbol of change in that status quo, but by 1964 Jim Crow was still the law in much of the south. That year's Republican and Democratic national conventions both featured strong grassroots movements opposing the Civil Rights Act and the social change it represented.

    The Democrats rejected George Wallace, but the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, leading many of the more racist Democratic politicians to change parties (notably Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms).

    Looking back, we know that Goldwater and Wallace failed. But from the perspective of a black man in 1964 who only knew that one of America's major political parties had just committed all of their resources to overturning the Civil Rights Act and returning America to the Jim Crow era in which he grew up, it doesn't sound like an unreasonable comparison.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Jackie Robinson A Republican Hero, Say Republicans
    Is Craggs ghost-writing under Barry's name now?
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    Image of Bobby Big Wheel Bobby Big Wheel
    10/14/09

    @I Like Cheap Beer: Two well-educated New Yorkers are both siding with liberals publicly? Must be the same guy!
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    10/14/09

    @Bobby Big Wheel:

    Craggs seems well educated...jury's still out on Barry.

    I kid...I kid.
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    10/14/09

    @This is my Star: Temple is the Harvard of North Phily.
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    Image of Barry Petchesky Barry Petchesky
    10/14/09

    @Bobby Big Wheel: For what it's worth, there's a j-school degree after my Temple time.

    What's that? A j-school's worth nothing? Oh, carry on then.
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    10/14/09

    @Barry Petchesky: That's not a knock, I went to the Harvard of the South myself. One of the dozen or so Harvards of the South.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Jackie Robinson A Republican Hero, Say Republicans
    Of course Jackie Robinson would be a Republican if he were alive today. Who else are you going to vote for when you're 90 years old?
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Jackie Robinson A Republican Hero, Say Republicans
    One of the most asked questions we here at Deadspin get is "If Jackie Robinson were alive today, how would he vote?"

    From a wheelchair?
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Jackie Robinson A Republican Hero, Say Republicans
    As I watched this steamroller operation in San Francisco, I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

    Considering the source, that is one of the most mindblowing statements I have ever seen. Obviously he was the right man at the right time for baseball if he endured all that and still had this much perspective. Wow!

    /dick joke
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    06/06/09

    In reply to Didn't Jackie Robinson Play Baseball?
    It appears they made that picture colored for the set.
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    06/06/09

    In reply to Didn't Jackie Robinson Play Baseball?
    Back then, The Color Barrier was known as the the Stanford offensive line.
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    06/06/09

    In reply to Didn't Jackie Robinson Play Baseball?
    Who knew Magic wasn't that creepy witchcraft game?


    Most people don't realize that Jackie Robinson was the first to break the "mana color barrier" by building a mixed black/white mana deck, in 1957.

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    06/06/09

    @Steve U: +1 changeling. Holy crap. I had no idea my high school boyfriend commented here.... how have you been? Still driving that Fiero?
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