Jackie Robinson (ie Integration) was one of the worst things to happen to black people
THREAD STARTER COMMENTS: As major league baseball celebrates jackie robinson this weekend, it doesnt remind me of a success for black people, it reminds me of the destruction of the black community. Integration destroyed the "black" community. The owner of the dodgers was a business man, he could care less about black people playing baseball, it was a business decision. Jackie Robinson brought the black dollar and the destruction of the negro leagues and the black economy. My father was talking about this very subject about a month ago, how the negro leagues was the MAIN part of the black communities across america. Here is a good article i found about this very subject:
http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/negroleagues.cfm
"On Oct. 23, 1945, Jackie Robinson—the star infielder for the all-black Kansas City Monarchs—signed a contract to join the Brooklyn Dodgers, shattering the unofficial boundary that prevented hundreds of star-quality athletes from playing major league baseball.
That date is usually marked in American, black and sports history as an end to the decades of segregation known as baseball’s “color line.” But at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, located just blocks from where Kansas Citians watched Robinson steal bases and the great Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige pitch shutouts, visitors learn that Oct. 23 marked a more bittersweet end as well. With many of its best players following Robinson’s jump to the majors, the once robust Negro National League folded after the 1948 season. The last All-Star game—once among the most star-studded gatherings in black America—took place at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium in 1962."
"Kendrick believes that Negro Leagues baseball was intimately connected to the economic success of black America. “Wherever you had successful Negro Leagues baseball, you had a successful black economy. It can be paralleled. The black economy never recovered from losing the Negro Leagues. Integration was a double-edged sword. It was great for our society.” But with black baseball, “Black businesses arose and flourished to supply the leagues and their supporters. They couldn’t compete with big businesses when integration came. The degree of black [business] ownership that we saw during the Negro Leagues—I’m not sure we’ll ever see that again.”
http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/negroleagues.cfm
"On Oct. 23, 1945, Jackie Robinson—the star infielder for the all-black Kansas City Monarchs—signed a contract to join the Brooklyn Dodgers, shattering the unofficial boundary that prevented hundreds of star-quality athletes from playing major league baseball.
That date is usually marked in American, black and sports history as an end to the decades of segregation known as baseball’s “color line.” But at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, located just blocks from where Kansas Citians watched Robinson steal bases and the great Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige pitch shutouts, visitors learn that Oct. 23 marked a more bittersweet end as well. With many of its best players following Robinson’s jump to the majors, the once robust Negro National League folded after the 1948 season. The last All-Star game—once among the most star-studded gatherings in black America—took place at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium in 1962."
"Kendrick believes that Negro Leagues baseball was intimately connected to the economic success of black America. “Wherever you had successful Negro Leagues baseball, you had a successful black economy. It can be paralleled. The black economy never recovered from losing the Negro Leagues. Integration was a double-edged sword. It was great for our society.” But with black baseball, “Black businesses arose and flourished to supply the leagues and their supporters. They couldn’t compete with big businesses when integration came. The degree of black [business] ownership that we saw during the Negro Leagues—I’m not sure we’ll ever see that again.”
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