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Just as you're not equipped to be in the office you hold, you SOB.
And worse. In less than 48 hours, Campanis was fired. The Dodgers had a sterling record of signing minorities and pursuing the best athletes regardless of color or religion. But as Campanis found out the hard way, racism often hides under the surface.
Some 31 years later, #45 and his cult followers make no effort to conceal it. It’s their platform. Would that we could fire him.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Campanis
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Campanis' remarks took place on the late-night ABC News program Nightline, on April 6, 1987, during the run-up to the 40th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball debut (April 15, 1947). Campanis, who had played alongside Robinson and was known for being close to him, was being interviewed about the subject. Nightline anchorman Ted Koppel asked him why, at the time, there had been few black managers and no black general managers in Major League Baseball. Campanis' reply was that blacks "may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or, perhaps, a general manager" for these positions. Elsewhere in the interview, he said that blacks are often poor swimmers "because they don't have the buoyancy." Koppel says he gave Campanis several opportunities to clarify, ("Do you really believe that?"
or back down from his remarks, but Campanis confirmed his views with his replies. Koppel also pointed out that much of what Campanis was saying "sounds a lot like the garbage we heard 40 years ago." Campanis was fired less than 48 hours later.
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