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...treatment. He was not the best ballplayer the Negro Leagues had to offer, but he was still the best candidate to step over the color line. At 28, with World War II service in the Army behind him, Robinson was mature and tough enough to withstand the taunts of racist fans and opposing players. He was married, to the beautiful Rachel Robinson, and hence no threat to the sanctity of white womanhood. And he was, literally, an All-American--in football at UCLA. Moreover, Robinson understood everything that was riding on the experiment. He left his natural combativeness...
...divisive moral issue. Most are far too concerned with raking in endorsement dollars to risk any controversy. In 1990 Michael Jordan, who occupies the psychological spot that Robinson pioneered as the dominant black athlete of his time, declined to endorse his fellow black North Carolinian Harvey Gantt over troglodyte racist Jesse Helms in a close contest for the U.S. Senate on the grounds that "Republicans buy shoes too." More recently, Jordan brushed off questions about whether Nike, which pays him $20 million a year in endorsement fees, was violating standards of decency by paying Indonesian workers only 30[cents...
...Internet, normally a good thing for companies that sell to urban young groovoids. But Hilfiger's getting the wrong kind of attention. E-mail groups run by African Americans and other minorities--core Hilfiger clientele--have been getting messages urging them not to buy Hilfiger clothes because of racist things he allegedly said on Oprah. The rumor spread so fast that Oprah's producers received dozens of calls wanting to know if it was true. The clothing company would not speculate whether the Web traffic was an act of malice or idle talk run wild, but Hilfiger has started...
Levitin's piece on "Har Homa" was a curious mixture of the ill-informed, the self-contradictory, the vindictive (indeed racist), and--on one issue--the correct...
...First you sort it out and find out how racist you are," Hillerman says. 'And then you say, 'How much of culture is based on race?' If you're like me, you find out it doesn't matter that much...