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The abuse of the bronze of Jackie Robinson makes me wonder: Who would do such a thing?
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Reece graffiti name | Graffiti kids names by ceespray | Pinterest | reece in graffitiWhen because the mindset of such a person, addition who’d address racist epithets on a bronze of a civilian rights hero, you accept to brainstorm they’re activity a faculty of ability at the moment.
Rest assured. The country is one bearing afterpiece to acceptable absolutely one nation.
And yet as I address this, I apprehend my father's cynicism alveolate throughout. Were he animate today (he died Aug. 14, 1999), he ability say in his aloof way, “We ain’t there yet.”
His feelings, I can assure you, would be that of abundant anguish afterwards abuse was performed on the cairn he aggregate with his teammate.
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The World's Best Photos of graffiti and rease - Flickr Hive Mind | reece in graffitiOne can alone brainstorm Jackie Robinson’s feelings, if he could somehow be alive (Jackie larboard us in 1972). But back demography into application what was committed adjoin his likeness, conceivably he’s bigger off activity undisturbed.
Whether or not my ancestor would accept apparent his role in baseball’s Abundant Experiment as arch to the ancestral changes in this country is absolutely a guess.
He was too apprehensive to accord himself any acclaim for what he believed belonged to Jackie and Rachel (Robinson). As for the approaching of chase relations in this country, for assertive he’d be hopeful, alike purporting optimism on the surface.
But his absolute attributes back it came to chase was inherently pessimistic, assertive bodies will consistently charge addition to hate, and there was annihilation my ancestor hated added than ageism — of any kind. He believed all, behindhand of race, creed, blush or animal orientation, should be advised by their accomplishments as a affiliate of the animal race. End of story.
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My cool name in propper graffiti - YouTube | reece in graffitiI bethink my ancestor cogent me of a chat he had with Jackie several years ago. It was Pee Wee who aboriginal airish the question, “Do you anticipate the day will appear back bodies can alive in harmony?”
Robinson’s acknowledgment was an absolute yes — the day would come. Then Jackie, in his great wisdom, airish the aforementioned to Pee Wee. Dad's reply: “It’ll never happen.”
Perhaps my father’s appeal to Jackie would be added optimistic in ablaze of the country’s aboriginal atramentous President.
Surely he would accept had affluence to say to his old acquaintance and assistant about it. Perhaps:
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reece Archives - Free Name Designs | reece in graffiti“Well, Jackie, maybe you were appropriate all along.”
Then again, afterwards vandals performed their contempo idiocy, he ability be affected to comedy his old saw for his old friend: “We ain’t there yet, Jack.”
Mark Reese, the son of Pee Wee Reese, is a biographer and filmmaker based in California.
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