Jackie Robinson FFS

[Randomthought]

I just talked with my cousin in Florida and biographies of Jackie Robinson are being banned in Florida. Jackie Robinson!?!
Florida is ... no words

[RussBLib]

1. didn't you know?

Black people have always played baseball with white people.

[madinmaryland]

14. Uhmm. George Santos invented baseball and was also the first black man to play baseball.

[LoisB]

16. LOL!

[cbabe]

2. Roberto Clemente book ban reversed

https://www.nbcnews.com › news › latino › roberto-clemente-book-florida-discrimination-review-approved-rcna71771

Roberto Clemente book approved for use in Florida public schools ...

Feb 22, 2023A book about the late Afro Puerto Rican MLB legend Roberto Clemente that was removed from public schools in Florida's Duval County pending a review over its references to racism and...

(If I were cynical I would say the reversal is because desantis needs the Hispanic/Cuban vote. Black votes not so much.)

[Randomthought]

5. Correct

You are right.

[Phoenix61]

27. Not cynical, realistic. nt

[LoisB]

3. I think what DeSantis is going for is: No Black person has ever done anything worthy of you

innocent little White children learning about. Sort of a modern day Roger Taney.

[Randomthought]

6. Yes,

Racist AH

[Celerity]

4. Kids' books about beloved baseball heroes fall prey to K12 censors

Children's books that tell the stories of how baseball legends Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron and Roberto Clemente battled racism were banned by Duval County Public Schools.

https://districtadministration.com/kids-books-about-beloved-baseball-heroes-fall-prey-to-k12-censors/



Black baseball legends Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, and Roberto Clemente—and their triumphs in the face of racism—are apparently not appropriate reading for students in one large Florida district. Children’s books that tell the stories of how the three sports heroes broke color barriers and battled racism during their lives have been removed from libraries in Duval County Public Schools, which is about the 20th-largest district in the country.

Florida schools have become a hotbed for the censorship of books about racism and the LGBTQ community since Gov. Ron DeSantis began attacking “woke culture.” The Republican with presidential aspirations and emboldened by a landslide reelection victory has championed the state’s “Don’t Say Gay Law” and stifled instruction about racism in a battle against critical race theory.

When it comes to Robinson, Aaron and Clemente, the decision to block their stories by administrators in Duval County Public Schools appears even more unusual. The three books appear to have had a very short shelf-life—they were expelled along with more than 170 other titles in early 2022 shortly after they’d been acquired with the district’s purchase of the Essential Voices Classroom Libraries Collection, according to PEN America, an anti-censorship organization.

Robinson was talented enough to break baseball’s color barrier, becoming the first Black player in the major leagues in 1947 while Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s career home run record and held it for 33 years. Clemente was a generational talent who also did extensive charity work in his native Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Caribbean and Latin America. All three men were inducted into the baseball hall of fame and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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update

Roberto Clemente book returned to school shelves in Florida school district

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/roberto-clemente-book-returned-to-school-shelves-in-florida-school-district/

[Randomthought]

7. Why are we even having this conversation

This is 1930s, 40 s 50s. B S
So angry

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. Well, maybe the voters of FL will decide to do something about it?

If everyone votes, Republicans lose. Yes, I know there are obstacles, but they can be overcome.

[Demanchor]

11. It would be much easier to vote even with all the obstacles

as opposed to attempting to correct the consequences of not voting.

[rubbersole]

18. desantis is term limited for governor.

Florida has a 'resign to run' law. He would have to resign when he declares for potus if term limits didn't exist. Rubio did a version of this. When it was obvious tfg was going to get the nomination in 2016, Lil marco re-declared for senate...pissing off the other candidates that did resign to run.

[Celerity]

12. What's old is new again. The Rethugs are racists, and they need to consolidate the white vote

as that pie is shrinking in terms of the percentage of the population and the electorate.

It started with the Southern Strategy after the disastrous (for them) 1964 Goldwater implosion, and continues to manifest itself in a multivariate number of nefarious ways to this day.

Voter suppression,

the rise of RW state legislatures that will try and usurp legitimately lost (lost by the Rethugs) electoral outcomes,

pro-Rethug partisan gerrymandering at every possible level,

white grievance politics,

the capture of vast swathes of the State and Federal judiciaries including the big hammer, the SCOTUS itself,.... all for a massive push towards RW judicial activism to bypass elected governmental power when the Rethugs are blocked and thwarted by that power,

the attempts to now turn Latino and Asian voters (especially the millions of newly minted evangelical ex-Catholic Latinos) to the Rethug way with a specific and evil AF toolkit,

fearmongering as a permanent campaign mode,

christofascism,

homophobia,

stochastic terror,

misogyny used to champion a fucked up return to a falsely-imagined 'good old days',

disinformation on full blast, 24-7 via social media, RW hate radio, and RW hate telly, all aided by bad overseas actors, much of it done using non-linear, asymmetrical warfare and reflexive control models perfected by the Russians

the smearing and the 'othering' of anything that they deem to be a threat,

socio-economic policies designed for not only mass wealth extraction, but also to keep the masses on edge, to keep them struggling and enraged, looking for scapegoats to blame (scapegoats the Rethugs have had in place for ages),

and finally, the utter annihilation of objective truth, wherein they literally can tell their supporters anything, including the biggest of lies, and still keep them in the Rethug pen, and even, they hope, expand the number of believers of their lies (hello corrupted RW global use of AI, which is soon going to be a massive systemic threat aiding in all of the above shitbaggery).


I am sure I left a lot of things out as well.

[LoisB]

20. I think you pretty much covered it. Any and everything not white, straight, male, and

Republican.

[LowerManhattanite]

9. What an awful place.

Good God.

[Randomthought]

10. I am an old woman

73 next month and raised in the south and this shocks me.

[kewhawaii]

13. Happy to say I saw Clemente play back in the day....

sheesh, that was a long time ago.

[LoisB]

17. Lucky you. I only saw him on television and thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[OAITW r.2.0]

19. He was a star, no question.

This Red Sox fan appreciated the awesome Pirates of that time.

[BComplex]

15. Are republicans "cancelling" black people?

Is this the new "cancel culture" thing they're into?

[Rhiannon12866]

21. What?? Why?? He's a sports and cultural icon!

And anyone who knows about baseball or history should know his name...

[Brother Buzz]

22. But, but, he was also an uppity black 2nd Lieutenant from California who was court-martialed...

for doing a Rosa Parks twelve years before Rosa Parks did her thing.

His fortitude and resolve was the main reason Branch Rickey signed him, not for his baseball prowess (There were many better players in the Negro league, but Branch Rickey knew only Robinson had the mettle to stand up to the fight)

[Rhiannon12866]

23. You're right, he was known for his courage as well.

I cringe to imagine that we could be producing an entire generation who is unaware of what has actually gone on in this country, and this effort to keep basic historical or cultural facts from the next generation is exacerbated by all the education that they missed during the lockdown.

[Brother Buzz]

24. The Powers That Be already scrubbed the reconstruction period history

During the 1870s, more than a dozen African American men, many of whom had been born into slavery, were elected to the U.S. Congress. It was a period that ended all too quickly, and deliberately, by white men with fragile egos.

[Rhiannon12866]

26. I have Mary Trump's book and she also mentioned that

She talked quite a bit about the lasting effects of slavery and how Freedmen were never given a chance. I also saw the PBS series on Reconstruction and how Andrew Johnson canceled the many of the plans for freed slaves, rather than giving them the land that they were promised, he returned the land to Southern owners so that they'd "owe" him.

[elleng]

25. on pbs now

https://www.pbs.org/video/jackie-robinson-social-justice/