The American Spectator

The Nation's Pulse

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I can't speak for any 15,000,000 people any more than any other one person can, but I know that I've got too much invested for my wife and child and myself in the future of this country, and I and other Americans of many races and faiths have too much invested in our country's welfare, for any of us to throw it away because of a siren song sung in bass.

br> For this Robinson has, of course, been tagged with the trite and predictable Uncle Tom label. Yet he was just as passionate in decrying Jim Crow as he was the Communists, but he was wise enough to see that this country afforded the opportunity for the defeat of the former. At the same hearing he continued: br>

But that doesn't mean that we're going to stop fighting race discrimination in this country until we've got it licked. It means that we're going to fight it all the harder because our stake in the future is so big. We can win our fight without the Communists and we don't want their help.

br> Too many modern black athletes admire Robinson, but do not worship him as they do the more radical Muhammad Ali. Malcolm X said , "Cassius Clay is our hero. He's the first real black sports hero. Jackie Robinson is a white man's hero." On Sunday, contrary to those who find it easier to hate than to love, all America will celebrate her hero.

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Sports, Constitution, Russia, Communism