"Racism is as American as baseball"

Our president back at it again, trying to gas his “silent majority” to act out. Supposedly the white guy said the n word.

I wish I could pull man to the side like , as much you wanna mush that mans face in, don’t do it. If you don’t have a record, you’ll end up with one. Game over.. If you already got one... well Its whatever then.. till 12 come banging on your door days later trying to pull a George Floyd on you because You caught the attention of Trump.

 
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Racism is as American as Baseball?

You have no idea.

This is what we are dealing with...



As could be expected, injuries resulting from this “game” were common, especially when baseballs were used instead of eggs. In 1887, the New York Sun recounted a bad day at the Westchester County Fair by noting that “Everything seemed to go wrong. The African Dodger was disabled. A very hard ball had explored a very soft region of his cranium and he was laid up for repairs.” The Sun also reported, with no apparent concern for the injured man, that “another negro was procured to do the African Dodger’s act.”

Based on newspaper reports, it appears that some African-American men may have been killed during the course of these games. In 1908, for example, an “African Dodger” named William White was the target of carnival-goers in Hanover, Pennsylvania, where a squad of baseball players took turns throwing hard balls at his head. White, according to the Philadelphia Record, was “subjected to a fusillade of balls” but “took the punishment courageously.” Almost as an afterthought, the Record observed later in the piece that “He was compelled to retire soon afterward with internal injuries which may prove fatal.”

Notwithstanding the horrific brutality of the game, we did not find any evidence of actual infants being used as targets, despite what the name of the game suggests.

We asked Franklin Hughes, a digital media specialist who works with the Jim Crow Museum, about whether toddlers were subjected to being human targets, and he told us that “In many cases, the ‘dodger’ would holler things out to the carnival attendees trying to bait them into playing; I can’t really see how a toddler could do this on the same level … However, I would not put it out of the question.”

 
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That's sorta correct, Slavery literally got rebranded on the islands after "emancipation", ie only children 6 and under were emancipated, and everyone else were "apprentices" still required to work for free for years, just not classified as slaves, then they just rolled over into an insulting level of pay.

It's why white American and British slobs head there and act like they own the place.
 
 
Why is it when someone is outclassed intellectually, the “come see me” thing comes up? I mean, you’ve already lost!
 
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