White Americans, majority
of them on the far-right and aligned with the Tea Party and some southern state
Democrats, reacted to the election of Barack Obama in 2008, the first African
American President, in a much more racially charged and radically insensitive
way than whites did in 1947 when the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson,
which effectively integrated major league baseball. White objection to Robinson
was not muddled in political correctness…he was a black man and simply not good
enough or deserving of the same opportunities afforded a white baseball player.
They spoke it out loud and were unapologetic.
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