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...showing how the flinchy, all-business Sayers, a born superstar, clashed with Piccolo, who compensated for his middling talent with hard work and disarming jokes. The update also looks more closely at the subtle prejudice the African American Sayers faced among his own team (along with overt public racism when he and Piccolo became the Bears' first interracial roomies). But it cuts a key scene in which Piccolo calls Sayers a "nigger" to get a rise out of him, an apparent sop to contemporary sensibilities. Phifer's Sayers is a tougher nut to crack than Williams'; as Piccolo, Maher...
...Robinson spent 10 mostly triumphant years with the Dodgers, but baseball racism endured. Four years after Rickey left the Brooklyn organization, the black Puerto Rican, Roberto Clemente, showed great promise in the Dodger farm system. "We're not bringing him up," decreed Walter O'Malley, Rickey's successor. "We have enough colored boys already." Pittsburgh plucked Clemente, and the Hall-of-Famer slammed out 3,000 hits over an 18-year career...
...Racism exploded again when Baseball Inc. decided to solemnly mark the 40th anniversary of Robinson's major league debut. Ted Koppel invited me and the late Al Campanis, then Dodger general manager, to appear on his popular network program Nightline. Robinson died in 1972, but Koppel asked me what he might think about the state of blacks in baseball during 1987. I said Robinson would be appalled that there was not a single black manager in the major leagues. Koppel said to Campanis, who was sitting in a Houston ball park, "Is Mr. Kahn's statement true...
...Delaying school choice any longer and prolonging parents’ powerlessness is an intolerable injustice by which America condemns itself to endure the cancerous growths of racism, mediocrity and moral decay...
...terms, as art, but it’s also a historical document reflecting the times in which it was made. Rejigging these movies to be inoffensive to a new legion of fans ruins them: It desecrates the art and eliminates the history. Why not take all that racism out of Mark Twain? Huckleberry Finn: Special Edition...