April 15: Jackie Robinson Day and a new film (Photos)

April 7th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

As April 15 approaches, not only is it “tax day,” but it is also recognized as “Jackie Robinson Day.” On April 10, 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, Branch Rickey, signed Jackie Robinson to play second base for the Dodgers, setting the stage for Robinson to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier with his major league debut on April 15.

Scheduled to coincide with “Jackie Robinson Day,” “42,” a new film directed by Brian Helgeland from a screenplay that he wrote, will be released April 12. The film stars Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey.

According to Denis Cummings in findingdulcinea.com, Rickey sought a black ballplayer with great talent and personal character. “I wanted a man of exceptional intelligence, a man who was able to grasp and control the responsibilities of himself to his race and could carry that load,” he explained in a 1956 speech.

Rickey found the perfect man in Jackie Robinson, a former four-sport star at UCLA who played the 1945 season with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League. Robinson had a history of challenging racism; as a U.S. Army lieutenant, he was court-martialed for refusing to sit in the segregated back seats on a military bus.

When he made his major league debut on April 15, Robinson faced racial abuse from players and fans throughout the season, but he took the high road and rose above the vicious racism.

“Jackie Robinson had to be bigger than life,” writes Hall of Famer Hank Aaron in Time. “He had to be bigger than the Brooklyn teammates who got up a petition to keep him off the ball club, bigger than the pitchers who threw at him or the base runners who dug their spikes into his shin, bigger than the bench jockeys who hollered for him to carry their bags and shine their shoes, bigger than the so-called fans who mocked him with mops on their heads and wrote him death threats.”

In speaking with a number of “seasoned seniors,” across the country, those born in the 1950s and earlier, many recall the amazing impact Jackie Robinson had on the Black community whose members found themselves ardent fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers throughout much of their lives. Indeed, Jackie Robinson was a giant of a man, whose legacy, on and off the athletic field, lives on.

Mark Newman notes this comment by Robinson on his legacy: