Jackie Robinson Teaches Us to Never Back Down to Bigots

Rachel Robinson, Professor, Nurse, activist and wife of the baseball trader Jackie Robinson, is still with us at 102. This month’s Defense Ministry removed The web page, which details the Jacques Robinson’s military history and replaced the error page with the letter “Dei” in the URL. Perhaps the most upset part is that Rachel Robinson lived to see the name of her late husband, humiliated by the new tours of white supremes 78 years after he broke the colored barrier in the major league baseball.

“Dei” has become a comprehensive term of Trump administration to demonize everything that promotes the history and experience of black and brown people. In this context, its use is particularly stupid: it is a racial peel. Former Fox News Defense Department Pit Hugset sent an unmistakable message that Robinson’s achievements are fraudulent and rising only from the skin color. Robinson was not the only target in the Fusillade Racism of Hegset. Articles about the famous Negotiations on Navajo codeswhich were marked in books and movies were shot as well as honoring legendary Tuskegee Airmen. Everyone erase, with the DEI error page in its place.

Not surprisingly, the waves of anger, followed by the media, arose over this brazen disrespect aimed at unavailable Robinson. The fury deepened when DOD addressed each reporter from ABC News to To To The Progressive He was the same e -mail that seemed to be carved and dropped out of the fascist YouTube transcripts: The world of Hegecs seems acquaintance. The statement said that the celebration of the achievements of the color (like Robinson) was an example of what the serviceman is now: “Cultural Marxism“

For many, this is certainly heard as restless nonsense: a conversation in the right wing on the Internet. But the phrase is more capricious. “Cultural Marxism” has long been the code in the extreme right for the Jewish conspiracy, especially in the darkest corners of the Internet and Nazi messages. As an anti -Semitic gland, it preceded our online world, capable of traceing the 1920s in Germany, when Adolf Hitler announced the “cultural Bolshevism” of leading German artists. This is the incitement to the United States Jews who are guilty of weakening US troops through Jackie Robinson celebration plan. (No one ever said that bigotry must make sense.) The everyday use of the phrase is another example of what is the introduction of anti -Semites and trusting them “Fighting anti -Semitism” is a wish for death.

When “Cultural Marxism” was highlighted as pseudo-intellectual, GobbledenGook’s reasoning for Robinson’s breakdowns, even on ESPN’s main page, angry grew until Doda gigset has grown until Doda has grown up until Doda has grown angry And Robinson’s page resumed. The bright light on the new DOD policy was made by the executed Hegset Caur, and the above -mentioned disappearance of tribute to code conversations and magically appeared again.

This may not seem much, especially in the climate where people disappear For thoughts of crime against US foreign policy. But I would claim that we desperately need a reminder that even in this repressive climate, we can defeat them back. Like the bullies, they only design when they believe we are weak.

Branding of this Ministry of Defense as a white supreme body is an accusation that should not be done, but one is struggling to find an alternative explanation of why something happened. After all, Robinson was a republican. When GoP tried to be less racist as a means of losing Mita Romney 2012 (they did not follow this strategy for a very long time), they produced materials that emphasized “famous black Republicans”, and Robinson was the front and center. Of course, RNC left that he was a centrist “Rockefeller -Republican”, who was in a state of repulsion compared to the 1964 GOP 1964 convention on a Nazi actionBut he was still a republican.

It is clear that Hegset and friends did not erase Robinson only from his darkness, but because of the fact that it is inextricably for its darkness: the life story formed in the reality of Jim Kroh and the American apartheid. Robinson once said that if he had to choose between the baseball hall of glory and full citizenship for his people, he would choose citizenship. An attempt to erase this story is not only an effort to whiten the sins of the past, but also a statement about who can require a “citizen” mantle in the present. Or maybe, Ggegset and friends are just upset by those who won World War II.

The fact that DOD was to refuse disconnection should be argued as a victory and a reminder of who these people. Jonathan Coulman, author of an essential book Long Way: Black -White in AmericaHe said to me, “In the legal world, if something is said, even if it is later recognized, the lawyers will insist that” you will not be able to unleash the bell. “In the case of Jackie Robinson,” recovery “is too little and too late.

Robinson once said that when he sees an American flag on a truck, he knows that “this man is not my friend.” HEGSET – “That man”. The defense secretary and its ILK are types of people who would deprive Robinson of the Major League baseball. They chose the side and it’s not Jackie Robinson’s side. I feel up to Rachel Robinson and I’m sure not one. But she encountered greater bullies than that. We need to remember this and know what we can do the same.