renard_ruse
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I guess to take my mind off all the horrible news going on, for some reason I decided to watch an old World Series game on YouTube today. I've never done that before. I randomly chose game 7 of the 1952 Yankees-Dodgers Series.
Not surprisingly it was quite interesting. In many ways it didn't seem as different from today as I expected. Regardless, one interesting thing stood out in light of what's going on these days with our societal race obsession.
We've all heard the Jackie Robinson story ad nauseum for years, but the Dodgers had a star pitcher who also happened to be black, named Joe Black. I say happened to be black, because it seemed to be no big deal to anyone one way or the other. This was only two years after Robinson "broke the color barrier." The announcers spoke about Black like any other player, didn't mention race once. It seemed like nobody even thought about it at all.
Fast forward to today, generations later and you can't watch a baseball game or anything else without race constantly talked about. Its really amazing that we've completely lost our minds as a society.
Not surprisingly it was quite interesting. In many ways it didn't seem as different from today as I expected. Regardless, one interesting thing stood out in light of what's going on these days with our societal race obsession.
We've all heard the Jackie Robinson story ad nauseum for years, but the Dodgers had a star pitcher who also happened to be black, named Joe Black. I say happened to be black, because it seemed to be no big deal to anyone one way or the other. This was only two years after Robinson "broke the color barrier." The announcers spoke about Black like any other player, didn't mention race once. It seemed like nobody even thought about it at all.
Fast forward to today, generations later and you can't watch a baseball game or anything else without race constantly talked about. Its really amazing that we've completely lost our minds as a society.
