Reggie Jackson shares raw story about racism in early days of baseball career
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Reggie Jackson shares raw story about racism in early days of baseball career
Baseball great Reggie Jackson shared a powerful story about racism in the early days of his baseball career. He said that what he experienced "he wouldn't wish it on anybody." I’m a huge Reggie Jackson fan, and react to his message. I think it's a warning because the racist, sad world that Jackson experienced isn't too far in our history:
I was born in 1952. I grew up in the South. Jim Crow is still real in places like Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina. Hitler used "Jim Crow" as a blueprint for his treatment of the Jews and anybody else he didn't like. The US fought a war to destroy Fascism, yet here we are not even 100 years later with people trying to justify this garbage. We know better. Reggie is one of many who can tell us what it was like. Listen to him.
Trump has no ideology except the relentless means to scam money anyway possible. Trump truly has no attention span, not more than episodic focus, and a severe sense of inferiority that he hides at all costs. Control is essential for him because he could never compete on a level playing field. So he cheats and lies and and makes up facts to convince himself that he is a superior human. He has to surround himself in sycophants to reinforce his hide his frailties. That’s why he freaks out when anyone is unflattering to him. So he has surveyed the land and found useful idiots to protect from his self truth.
As long as he is in control, no one will find out his truth. As long as he is in control he feels superior.
To achieve this, he is willing to promise whatever he thinks these useful idiots want to hear. He won’t fulfill these promises unless it benefits him. He is not a man of his word and pivots on a dime if it will benefit him , like the abortion issue, now the Ten Commandments, …
He has no ideology other than what’s in it for him. He will say anything to get what he wants. Ask the people who have done work for him, then he stiffs them when it’s time to pay.
Trumps racial prejudice came from and was embedded in his youth by his daddy. He just has hidden to achieve his lifetime of grift.