Jackie Robinson was discriminated against for being black before breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball back in 1947. We’ve all heard the stories of the discrimination Robinson faces not only on the field, but off the field too. Of course, it’s not very well known that Jackie Robinson was discriminated against by liberal media hacks after his baseball career was over too. Jackie Robinson was a writer for the New York Post (long before Rupert Murdoch was it’s owner.) The little known fact, according to Reason.com is that Jackie Robinson was fired from the New York Post for being ‘too Republican.’ The more liberals Democrats change of the years, the more they stay the same.
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Today is the 68th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s notorious de facto ban against players having skin tone a shade or two darker than pure Castilian soap. As is the annual tradition, all MLB players today are wearing Robinson’s #42 in homage.
As I (and plenty of others) have long argued, Jackie’s awe-inspiring legend has, if anything, given short shrift to what a colossally competitive, accomplished, and complicated man he really was. He has as good a claim as anyone else at being the best all-around athlete of the 20th century (he was also a national champion long jumper, league champion collegiate basketball scorer, and All-American halfback at UCLA). He was a prolific if underappreciated author. A passionate and righteously angry civil rights activist. A banker/entrepreneur, active Rockefeller Republican, and the first black columnist for a major non-black newspaper, The New York Post. Which fired him for being too pro-Nixon.