[Vision2020] A Late Tribute

[keely emerinemix]

That was a momentous day indeed, although it happened 13 years before I was born.  What's shocking is that up until about four years after I was born, men and women of Jackie Robinson's race were still forced in some places to drink from segregated water fountains, use segregated bathrooms, were legally barred from public accommodations at the whim of city fathers, and were discouraged from voting by poll taxes and "literacy" tests, primarily throughout the South.Fortunately, women and men of good will and moral courage refused to accept that the discriminated-against were happy and fulfilled in their place, and passionately challenged the idea that there was a necessary social strata from which the races, each secured in their own positions in the hierarchy, enjoyed harmonious and affectionate relationships with one another.Thank God no one teaches anything as ugly and stupid as THAT nowadays  . . keely> From: thansen at moscow.com> To: vision2020 at moscow.com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:38:53 -0700> Subject: [Vision2020] A Late Tribute> > Greetings Visionaires -> > I held off posting this tribute hoping that it might originate from other> sources, either here on Vision 2020 or on the Moscow airwaves.  Both sources> have thus far failed.  In light of Don Imus' recent comments this tribute> becomes even more relevant.> > It was sixty years ago today (April 15, 1947) that Jackie Robinson first> took his position at second base at Ebbetts Field to play professional major> league baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers.  Although Jackie Robinson went 0-3> that day against the Boston Braves, scoring one run, he shattered the color> barrier into professional baseball.  For that the nation is grateful.> > As the article in Friday's Sports Illustrated reflects:> > He was a soldier, a writer, an activist, a politician, a voice, a leader, a> father, a husband, and a friend.  Being a Hall of Fame second baseman was> the easy part.> > "Before and After Jackie" (EXCELLENT presentation)> Raging sports poet and director Sean Pamphilon's take on a baseball pioneer> who died way too early--perhaps, in part--because of the indignities he> suffered.> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjHpIBcTT0Q> > And an additional thanks to Branch Rickey, owner of the then Brooklyn> Dodgers, who made this day possible.> > A special shout out to somebody special:  How about them Dodgers!> > Seeya round town, Moscow.> > Tom Hansen> Moscow, Idaho> > "If not us, who?> If not now, when?"> > - Unknown> > > =======================================================>  List services made available by First Step Internet, >  serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.   >                http://www.fsr.net                       >           mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com> =======================================================
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