Reggie Jackson Remembers And He's NOT Alone
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Reggie Jackson, a Hall of Famer, has often expressed his feelings about playing in the Deep South in 1967 while in the minor leagues in Birmingham, Alabama, but on this day at a luncheon in the afternoon, and again on national TV at night, it was different. This was meant for the world to hear.
Jackson, in an open forum in Birmingham, was asked if he were a better person having come up through the city where Jim Crow laws existed and whether he was stronger after enduring the social inequities in Birmingham.
Jackson, who attended the historic Rickwood Field Game in Birmingham, was not a guest of Major League Baseball. He was not a paid guest for Fox. He came to pay respects to the Negro Leagues and the passing of Willie Mays.
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Boy, is he making racists super angry on Twitter😂😂😂 they can't stand it when a mirror is shown to their faces.
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I dumped X for good…Sick of seeing Hitler wannabes pimp and hustle their trash.
They're like "RaCisM DoEsNt ExiSt"
Shows them just how evil they have always been
It’s like being in a relationship with an abuser. They get mad or violent when you stand up to them, because they want to make sure they benefit from having control.
Reggie is not lying. I was born in 58 and I lived through it.
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@@reesewatersI was working in a supermarket in the Bronx as a teenager in 1988 and was repeatedly called a f@#king mully/moli by the Italian Americans who worked there. They say nothing wrong in doing it.
We know he isn't lying.
We have family and elders at our church and neighborhood, who lived through it.
We have documentaries that showed whites spitting on blacks and their white allies during Jim Crow
It is people like Bryon teether Donalds who doesn't know what he is talking about.
His ancestors are not even from America.
depending on where you grew up. Some places were Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky
Me to getting hand me down books when white school got new books
Reggie Jackson Give a MAGA History Lesson. God Bless Him.
Well they know what it is but those supporting them need the lesson
BANNED IN FLORIDA AS CRT
@@reesewaters Touche' (smile)
What’s a “make America great again” history lesson? Please explain.
Let's stop pretending that racism is just on one side of the aisle, it's all over. Not paying the Negro People Reparations is racism. It is the very reason racist people don't want us to have Reparations. It is so bad that some Negros and other Black People pretend and lie about this nation not being racist so they can get funding. Just think about that. And it seems none of you all are thinking about how you will answer to The Most High God for this.
This is America's history, America's present and it is America's legacy because it's America's pastime (something that amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably).
*Before someone says it...this is NOT VICTIMHOOD...This was HIS EXPERIENCE!* All power to Reggie & all who had to endure!
VICTIMHOOD…..Attack on Black American History.
I’m 83 years old. Born and raised in North Carolina. KKK country. I hope my grandchildren don’t ever have to experience the segregation that I have experienced. Project 25 and 45 need to be stopped. It breaks my heart when I hear young black say “ I’m not voting,they all the same” Beloved it’s your future. I will vote 💙💙💙💙 for your life and future.
Thats word white people use
I'm 73 it's scary back then you kept your mouth shut ,my 25 year old granddaughter would lose her life she love to speak up
@@carolynfranklin4865 the price we paid can’t really be understated. Peace and Blessings.
I’m from Africa and I know enough about the history of black folks in the US for it to be unfathomable that people like Byron Donalds exist.
You’re a tether stfu. Don’t speak on our politics
Thank you….You understand where we are coming from.
Donald exist to convince black people that the plantation is a better life for them under Trump
@@Nik110512 No, you don't. You only THINK you understand. Blacks citizens of the United States are better off than Blacks citizens of any other country on this planet.
You don't understand Byron Donald's because you don't Understand what real freedom is and the way our founding fathers set up this greatest nation that has ever existed on this planet.
You can be ANYTHING you want to be here IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WORK HARD FOR IT!
Nothing is nor should be just given to you, too many Blacks here want to be victims and I'll guarantee Byron Donald's isn't one of them, it's just Jealousy on these people's part to see someone like Byron get along with other people and carve out a good life for themselves and their families.
Coming from Africa yourself does not enlighten you in the least, your post only served to point out your ignorance of the facts of this great Nation.
Have you ever heard the phrase, "misery loves company"? Think about it, these people here just want Byron Donald to be like them.
If you even care or dare to respond, I'm telling you now, there ain't nothing about racism holding anybody here back, but if I want to, I'll shoot down that excuse also
@@Nik110512
Like I said, Misery loves company.
Kills me how so many racists are angry / annoyed by him saying he should be grateful.
Gratefully to experience racism? Funny how they never do this to any other group
Grateful how? To not have been killed by there people back then? Do they comprehend how evil they truly are?
@@uncannytheos2454
They always think they’re “the good guys.”
@@uncannytheos2454 TRUST & BELIEVE I get it.
And it’s bizarre to me too that somehow minorities, especially black people, are expected to just be grateful we’re here.
@@uncannytheos2454 They do not comprehend how evil they are and that's the problem. Their psychosis lets them think their racism is how it's supposed to be.
Can you tell me when maga is ever happy. Racism lives in hate.
Man... I was born in '67. Had to grow up in that racial climate.
We appreciate you
Born the same year, grew up in Kentucky!
Unfortunately, this country has ALWAYS had a racial climate of some level.
I grew up in 64 and my parents had a hard time between being under the white man's thumb and now navigating not being in that situation. There was always a heir of caution. They would say you can't do everything white kids your age can do and they would drop little comments about the past and don't let me trigger something.
Born the same year. So I'm there with you.
1960 here. Born in Illinois. Got chased by mobs (at 12 years of age). Spit on. Denied jobs. So I don’t remember when Amerikkka was great.
1961 here, born in Washington, I remember walking home from school in the first grade and seeing three black girls beating up a little white girl and I remember only thinking why were they doing that? I had no idea. I had my best friends, Walter and Clay (brothers) and Marc to go play with. Two blacks and Marc who was and still is mixed ethnicity.
A few years later, 2-3-4 a group of black boys jumped my older brother with one hitting my brother with a baseball bat in his neck, luckily he wasn't seriously hurt, the neck as you know is damn close to the skull.
But we all grew up and out of that age and were even denied jobs.
You're all afraid to let go and fend for yourselves because when you fail, and you will, we all do, you have only yourself to blame and that ain't too cool, it's so much easier on yourself to blame yt and absolve yourself of any responsibility. Wow, sweet deal.
I could never live that way myself.
@@tonyr.3435 So Tony here is claiming his experience is equal to what we experienced. SMH.
@@csu111 Lol. Ffs man. What do you mean, "what you experienced "?
Wtf were you brought up? I swear you said Illinois, but you make it sound like Northern Ireland, or the Sainai peninsula, or the El Salvadoren jungle, perhaps Mozambique?
So somebody spit on you, and yeah that's nasty but not life threatening unless the person was a komodo dragon.
A mob chased you when you were 12. Why did the mob chase you?
And some dude(s) didn't hire you. Oh yeah that's never happened to me before.
So did you ever have a job in your life or would you just rather say yt kept ya down.
Go ahead slap that race card down like you just took every book in spades.
Wear it like your crown. Now ain't you a proud black man, but a fool to all else.
Would you hire that ☝? Neither would I.
I was born 1958 in Louisiana. Louisiana is still backwards.
Do you remember segregated school every time white got new books etc etc they gave us the old ones.
I read Very like people go out to vote, and I think it's out of fear
It is evil , not backward!
@@carolynfranklin4865 yes I remember that.
My mother and father and sister and brother from Louisiana they moved to Oakland California thank God
Those who don't remember history are condemned to repeat it!
That's why republican led states want to remove our history indeed. They want those good times to come back tim scott and the rest of those tap dancing jiggers.
.....exactly .That's the reason why people like Ron "Rhonda" DeSantis are so anal about banning certain books.
We don't have to imagine what Hank Aaron went through when chasing Babe Ruth's career homerun record in the '70s. He got death threats.
So did Eddie Robinson when he was the head football coach at Grambling and was closing in on Bear Bryant's record as the most winningest coach in college football.
Facts, I remember that on the news nightly.
Yes. 1960 was another era todays generations cannot fathom. Never again. Vote Blue.
Today’s generation appears to be lost.
Cause schools still are not teaching our history its entirety. In California, They still teaching the 3 basics: MLK, Frederick Douglas, and Harriett Tubman… smdh.
Thank you Reese for this segment. I am retired now but remember as a child having to go to the back window of a restaurant to order food because we were not allowed inside the restaurant. We can’t go back to that America.
And thank you for sharing your experience
Stay away from Trump then
Me I'm 73 not allowed go to school white kids we got raggedy hand me down books when they got new ones .I heard my mother being yelled at by white lady she work for, her bowing her head saying yes mam yes mam please don't fire me .Strange thing to me my mom was the person that yell at us
@@carolynfranklin4865I am shocked to tealise that I was living when this happened. Luckily I was not born in The 'Greatest country on earth'.
I think we need more black elders to come out and tell their story along with what they remember during the time.
Me 73 year old my mother who was strong woman 8 children .She work as maid white lady, I remember this strong woman bowing saying yes mam yes mam as white lady yelled at her
Other minorities as well.
My dad was Puerto Rican who spent 20 years in the service. After the Second World War during which he had been in the South Pacific (his brother was killed in the war) he returned to Brooklyn seeking a decent job as a dock worker. They refused to hire him and told him "no spicks". Twenty years of loyal service and he remained nothing more than a third class citizen.
Life isn't any better today. I sacrificed everything to get two college degrees (one a doctorate). The only job I got after all that work was as a floor sweeper. Today I'm now on a meager Social Security check and food stamps.
All these stories must be told and heard.
Thanks to Reggie for his frankness and honesty.
Born in the early 60's. Even as late as 1970 in Texas, I remember that we couldn't use the restroom at the gas station. We had to pee before we left the house or stop on the side of the road to use the bushes.
Well U got to remember this was traumatic. So I can understand why they may take it to the grave or hold it in for years like my mother's mother who was told by a teacher as a little girl growing up in Ohio...(born in GA tho).. that she n her race wasn't n won't ever amount to $H!t so we'll just skip you when she asked the kids to explain what there race did for the world. I never knew this til I was in my early 30's.
I just wanna know where is Tim Scott & his “supporters” are and what they gotta say about this!
APOLOGIZING FOR TRUMP SOMEWHERE
Tim Scott is a good Christian .
I considered voting for him for President .
I hope there are no left wing racists who will call Mr . Scott an uncle Tom
nah Uncle Tom was a hero! Tim Scott is another Clearance Thomas!
nah Tim Scott is more of a Clarence Thomas!
@@user-ki1un4jg2dyour poorly timed joke is about as popular as a turd in the punch bowl
My late mother told me how virulently racist Alabama was growing up under Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1950’s and 60’s. People were being terrorized on the daily. I am so grateful for the strength and tenacity our ancestors had to have to endure such cruelty and horror of those times.
You're right. We do need to hear more of these stories. Reggie brought me to tear. Byron and Tim especially need to hear it.
Got that right although denial is very strong with them
They know, but don't care and would be the ones to snitch. In prior lives, they were the ones who told ole Massa about the plans for an uprising or the escapes.
@@reesewaters except they don't believe in whatever comes out of their mouth. What they want is to be loved by their tormentors. Sad
Some of us have become complacent with the progress that civil rights era has granted us. Now is not the time to be content. All that has be gained through the sacrifice of those before us is at threat of being taken away.
You are absolutely right!!
I live near the KKKlan & their headquarters! I’m in the midworst aka Killinois! They are all over this state!
Wow. And open?
bruh illinois has the 2nd most sundown towns in the usa! In 2014 my mother was sharing a hospital room with the wife of the Grand Wizard of the 3K! Belleville Illinois was the most raysis city in the country in 1994!
Wow!! That's crazy and scary 😲
I’m from the so called “most dangerous city in the country” so not much phases me
I am from Illinois; it's like that had to fight kkk clan grewin up
For those who haven't seen it yet, the documentary "Reggie" is worth watching.
I’m on it
It was a great documentary
@@RochelleLang Which streaming service is it on ???
@@user-be7tc2bd6e I saw a few months back I don’t remember what media company distributed it.
@@reesewaters It is very good. It covers a little bit of the racism he faced with the A's and Yankees.
Jackie Robinson caught pure hell.
I was born in 1964 in Georgia. My family has stories!
I can bet
My late parents who'd be in their early hundreds knew slaves when they were teenagers in the 1930's, and the stories that the slaves told them were absoutely HORRIFIC, and there were many times l'd catch my late parents sitting there crying when they thought about and reflected on the cruelty of one human being's inhumanity to another human being, all because of skin color. The animals ate better and were treated far better than the slaves and their children ate and were treated.
@bridgetw.5328 I know it's not the same, but my mom was born in 33 in na z i Germany. She couldn't talk about it without crying. I know the na z I s got the playbook from the usa
I have no words, just love
One world, we are here for each othet
Your people died so did ours
I wasn't born here in '78 due to my father being in the army, but I don't remember living anywhere else and my family has stories! One involves a pregnancy, some rope and a tree.
I’m a 50’s child. School desegregation was traumatizing and we still haven’t recovered. Those ‘classmates’ never invited us to a class reunion. Now they are the political and economic leaders. Racism didn’t spring up with tfg. It was under the table. Now they are emboldened
I never wanted to attend my high school reunion, and I graduated 6th in my class and was voted senior class vice president. There were 6 black girls who graduated from my integrated high school.
What they should have done was phase in integration and not done it so quickly. I would not want racist teachers and administrators in charge of education. You are right we have not recovered in a lot of ways.
@@AldiAldiFPen below is your black history re: school desegration:
1. Brown was decided 1954 and school districts were ordered to integrate with undue haste
2. most white school districts didn't desegregate until 1970; white people obviously didn't understand the words "undue haste" or didn't like them and would often go so far as to close schools down completely rather than comply
3. 1970s black parents lobbied to integrate black teachers and administrators into integrated schools up to the early 1980s when they pretty much gave up. The consequence is that the school systems are overwhelmingly white. However, white people changed to narrative from school integration to "black parents don't like busing any more than white parents."
4. black intellectuals and academics asked white people to go to the board and write 100 times: "desegregation is not integration." True story. I just can't remember the name of the black journalist and the newspaper.
5. Eventually white people, who always insist on writing these historical narratives that are really just whitewashed history, convinced black people that school integration happened, was a success, and that the Negro problem was resolved.
🙍🏿♂️That's Not a Compliment, its a Degrading, RACIST INSULT!!🤬
We ❤ you Reggie!!
I was born in 1956. Black people still go through this stuff today! 🤨🔥😔🦾
I'm the same age as you and grew up in Alabama. Even today when I travel there I stick to the main roads. People tell me about short cuts thru back roads, bur no thanks.
No, no we don't!! We are killing each other over drug selling territories, in the hoos. We're killing each other over shoelace colors. And for being "disrespected" over perceived slights.
@@nadiaddis1145 You are obviously a white supremacists. The violence in the black community grows out of white racist oppression. Read and educate yourself! 🤨🖐🏿😔🔥🙏🏿
There are too many stories that I could share about the ill treatment I've received for no more than having dark skin. I grew up in a town that was 85% white in a state that pride themselves on once having one of the largest KKK membership populations in the nation. I was around 12 or 13 taking a shortcut to my home down an ally and there was two boys one white the other Mexican walking with a dog. The dog started barking and " broke loose" from his leash, the Mexican boy tried to run after the dog but, the white boy said, " No, let him chase that N-word. " I took off running thankfully I was near home and made it safely to my front porch. My dad was not home but, my mom was. She heard me run in the house and all out of breath. She asked me what what was wrong? and I began to tell her what happened but before I could get the story all out my mom went to our parents bedroom and got the gun and put it in her purse and grabbed her car keys and told me to " get in the car." We arrived at the white boys home my mom knocked at the door and the father of the white boy who is known in the neighborhood to be just was racist as his son looked at my mom and then at me then back at my mom and said, " Yes what do you want?" My mom said to the man, " I want to talk to you about your son siccing your dog on my child." The man never taking his eyes off my mom called his son to the door and he asked his son if he did what my mom accused him of and then the boy with a full prideful chest said ," I don't know what she is talking about I did not nothing to that girl." I yelled," Yes you did and you said "let him chase that N-word." My mom stepped down the steps to the sidewalk and started going into her purse, the father looked as if his life flashed before his eyes, then he did something to his son I will never forget, he turned back towards his son and he hit is son who was the same age as I right in the face with a full balled fist with such power as if he was a prize fighter. I was in shock, but my mom just turned to me and said, " lets go home." I don't believe for one moment that man tried to be an ally but, he was living on the Black side of town and I don't believe he wanted to have to deal with my father because for sure when my dad got home from work and heard what happened there was going to be another knock on his door. Or, if could have been he just did not want to deal with what my mom had down in her purse.
Get'em Reggie! I met him as a kid at the Inkwell!
How was that?
@@reesewaters I think he was vacationing. In the 80's it was well known for being secluded, though that reputation was eroding then. We, my father and I, were there because he lived in Oak's Bluff. He was surf fishing the Inkwell when Reggie and my father met, and my father introduced me. I was 9 or 10 at the time.
@@junkdubious That's a pretty cool story.
Thank you for doing this episode. Reggie Jackson sharing his experiences is something we should share w/ everyone. MAGA is code for turn back time. Our vote will be our way of saying ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Thank you, Reese, for all your posts. As a white woman who grew up in New Orleans during the sixties, I saw only the "white" version and consider myself a racist through ignorance. The good thing is that change is the one constant in life, and I am honored to be a subscriber and learn about a life that I never saw as a child.
My heart aches to hear stories of verbal and physical cruelty.
I am ashamed that many of my fellow white brethren, act like the pharisees of old and can't see the hypocrisy of their actions. May God bless you as you continue to bring this to light. May He soften our hearts of stone and teach us to exude kindness and love.
Big shout out to those who lived and went through the Jim Crow era, like my parents
Vote Trump you going back Trump go gut Dr. King Civil Rights bill
Born in 48, every summer in August it was my family's turn to go south and help my sharecropper grandparents. We had to take enough toilet paper,water and food for 3 days from Milwaukee to Mississippi. We travel at night if we went through a town we looked " colored" signs to stop.
Sundown town N words get out of town before Sun go down
I was born the same year the Civil Rights Act was signed into law in 1964. My parents have stories too and my uncle was a Black Panther.
The 1950s were a great decade if you were a straight white Christian men if you were outside those groups in anyway it wasn't really very good at all
The crazy part is how people would say that these things happen a long time ago and to move on and get over it. And yet there are still people that are still alive that have experienced these things first hand! Not 1,000 years ago… this is all recent!
White man born in ‘56. My family moved to Birmingham on New Year’s day 1964. I was in elementary school all during George Wallace’s terms as governor, including a class field trip to the State Capital in 3d or 4th grade, where we got to “meet the governor”. As a kid aged 7 - 12 years old I heard about all the things Mr. Jackson is talking about, Bull Connor, the church bombing, the Selma marches, the Edmund Pettis bridge, MLK, etc. Just about all day, every day. As a white kid my experience was in no way comparable, but I will never forget it. Hatred and violence were in the air and it changed my life, formed me as a person. Sixty-one years now since JFK was killed. I will never forget my feelings - then Dr. King, Bobby Kennedy, Medgar Evers, and 100s or thousands of Black Americans in and around Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery, AL. I have family whom I haven’t spoken to in decades who still live in Birmingham. Since I left AL decades ago I have not returned, and I never will.
That is the atmosphere the GOP, with the help of the supreme court, want back in America.
I commend Mr. Jackson for speaking out. I hope black Trump supporters awaken and see what MAGA really means. I simply can't imagine any of us wanting to go back to a time where what Bear Bryant said to Mr. JAckson was acceptable.
This should be a "must listen" for black kids today. I teach my young, black nephews and nieces about black history. The good parts, and the egregious parts. From the "black Bible," to black inventions and medical innovations. To how Alkebulan "educated" the planet. How mankind started in Alkebulan. How western civilization is "based" on Alkebulan civilization. How art, medicine, mathematics, the sciences, architecture, agriculture, textiles, metallurgy, religion, astrology, astronomy, trial by jury, the wheel, etc. All Alkebulan inventions. I relish teaching this to them.
Thank you , Reggie Jackson for your truth!! You endured a lot !!
I was born in the late 60s and I can remember seeing separate fountains and restrooms in many areas of the south and this was the mid 70s
As a American White man and see how our country was . It's shameful and now in 2024 our Republican party wants to return to those days.. I've serving will blacks and latinos and Asians And we all bled the same blood and swore to defend the same constitution. And no Trump our military or our veterans support you. Our minorites who truly aren't minorites need to stand together.We need you guys to defend us .as a normal person working 9to5 and a vet . We honestly need everyone to stop trump.plz think of every woman you love and thier rights are the 1st they'll take.plz look out for our family and country.As a white American who believes in everything that Biden has done for our country. And Trump is against everything that can help the people. As a white man who loves our country and believes everyone of us should have the same opportunities.Forgive me but what the hell are our black,latinos and asians thinking as a white man I know Trump doesn't give a shit about me.Just wants my vote. All of us need to wake up. . You'll fall before me.but I'll fall defending you'll and everything that's right.sorry I wrote so much. But I can see a America worse than China or Russia or NK.its just a few votes away
Thanks brother for your support we will die together if need be! 👊🏾
I was born in 1948, grew up in Hammond, Indiana remembering playing Hammond Morton eighth grade basketball ball as I attended Maywood Junior High and Morton fans yelling “stop those chocolate drops”….
Amwrica was never great. It's just that things aren't quite as bad as they used to be
Quit bad use to be Trump is talk about rolling back Dr.King Civil Right bill
@@carolynfranklin4865 That is simply not true. What is your source for this claim? Have you ever heard him say that or are you just repeating what you heard someone else say? Do your own research and stop spreading information that you have no legitimate source for. If I heard him say it, I'd be screaming it from the mountain top in all of my spheres of influence. If you have any source that shows him saying or doing any of what you claim, please cite it. He already served as our President for 4 years and none of what people are accusing him of happened. Do not trust and media outlets in this era. They all lie! Again, do your own research.
I was born in 65 and my high school’s football team had a cross burned on us in 1982
Welcome to America
My Man, respectfully, you kind of aged yourself in this video. I didn't realize you were og until you mentioned how you were bussed to the whiter school. Crazy! Respect and love Reese. JDz
I grew up in Colorado, and moved to Texas than Georgia over 40 years ago and was shocked at how people here feel comfortable using racial slurs around me because I'm white@ I've been stared at when I go out with my black friends! It felt like I went back in time! I always let people know right then that they offended me. I figure if they can't handle that I don't need them around me. I've heard some stories from older black people who grew up here that blew me away! One lady, MS Brown had to quit school at a young age and became a babysitter/ housekeeper for a rich family in town at 10. She cleaned, cooked and took care of their children but could not use their bathroom!! She had to go under the house or thecneighboor would let her use their bathroom. She had much more grace than I did about that! Why haven't we all achieved equality and acceptance of each other by now, I don't know. I can't imagine what it must of been like to live back then
.My parents were born in Mississippi and Louisiana respectively in the 1930s, and were coming of age in the 40s and 50s and the stories that they tell will make you weep! My parents and grandparents lived through the lunch counters, the segregation of restaurants, schools, neighborhoods etc.
Reese my name is Carolyn I'm 73years old I have my own Reggie story hope you read it on your channel .When i was little girl one day teacher said " getting new books tomorrow"Igot excited love to read never had a new book.I walked into the room books stack on table teacher pass them out .I open my book excited turn to the back, there were 7 names in the back of book.I thought this books not new, that night in bed overheard my mom say white school got new book gave us old ones.Black and white didn't go to school together back then they got new books we got old ones .I heard Trump go take a look at Dr. King 1964 Civil Right bill ,meaning we will have no right .Black school hand me downs not drink public water fountains Jim Crow .Love your channel
And sadly, while some things have changed we still have a LONGER way to go.
I'm a hard core Yankee Fan and I remember cheering for Reggie back in 70's when he was with the Yankees. I never knew he was going through all that racisim. I did notice some of his own Team mates like Greig Nettles and Thurmen Munson was gealous of him because he was getting all the attention.
Thank you, Reese. Yes, I'm an Old G that experienced a lot of what Reggie talks about. I was 12 years old at the height of Reggie's baseball career. I think what struck a nerve with me is when you said media was always asking Kareem and others "why don't you smile more often?" I remember this question being asked of me frequently. Like I should be happy that I was " given" all the opportunities in life. I was given nothing! Everything that I have obtained, I did
on my own, and I will continue to do that. Forever. Until it's my time to say goodbye to this world.
Reese born in 1948 watched everything on tv drafted in 1967 nam came back went in p o letter carrier retired in 2003 never thought I would c United States in this situation with trump please let maga known that if it comes down to they will face opposition 🎉
It hurts me deeply to see such a tough guy in such visible pain.
Reggie Jackson with his big light tinted shades was a scary dude.
I moved to the small city, Anniston Alabama about 2 years ago. I have been absolutely shocked by the amount of separation and racism that still exists to. Luckily I did buy a house in an all black neighborhood. The neighbors have been the nicest live and let liive neighbors I've ever had in my life. I am of Irish and Norse descent! But they don't care they judge me as who I am.
Beautiful ❤
I was born 1970 & I'm Puerto Rican I recall having to eat at separate counters. Told we don't serve your kind. In college being told that i speak & write well but receiving lower grades to "motivate me." In the caf black and brown people sat together so we could keep each other calm while hearing others call us racists slurs. That was 1989.
My parents & grandparents told me about life during those times.... it wasn't pretty at all. You could find yourself or a loved one hanging from a tree for the most ridiculous things. Smh.
The PTSD that this Wonderful man, Reggie Jackson, had to endure and imposed by the Mentally, Sick, Deranged White American Racists; is an example of the AMAZING, Resilience, Courage, Bravery, Strength, etc., of the African America people!! God Bless Our White Brothers and Sisters that are the Majority of America; that are REAL Americans that Embrace and Celebrate the Diversity of Our Country! Thank you so Very Much, Mr. Waters for All you do to Acknowledge, Our Greatest of WARRIORS!!
Lifetime NY Mets fan here. Legend has it that the Mets passed on drafting Reggie Jackson in the amateur draft because they found out that Reggie was dating a white girl . The Mets instead drafted a guy named Steve Chilcotte who barely made it above the minors. Racism again
The sad thing was the girl he was dating was Mexican, not white. Jackson's father was hispanic. The Mets screwed the pooch on that one. But like Reggie said in his autobiography..."White girlfriend? Serves the bastards right"
Reese, I was born in 58. Luckily Mom left our dad who got more and more racist as he aged. Took us to El Cajon, CA. As white, though poor, we were taught the evils of racism! Mom had seen it, hated it. But, I can never know what it is like for any non white person. I can only try to learn and help as they wish. And hella admire the people who paved the way. Let's vote BLUE, then push to make America great for all. Red only wants to go back to 'white, male,het, safe space!' Also, just remember, Mohammed Ali always said, after hearing all the accolades and hero worship, to his best friends who took awhile to understand, 'yeah, but I'm still just a n!@@#r!' Allies would be good, so would TV shows that had great impact! And yeah, you do gotta include cosby.👍🏼💙💙💙🥰✌🏽
You are so appreciated as is your mother ☝🏾
@@reesewaters Wow, thankyou for answering! You often do, but I was late and long. I feel like, 'celebrity' touched! 🤩💙💙💙🥰✌🏽
The ones who went through that racism and never spoke about it allowed it to continue. Reggie is a strong man! We must reveal the true nature of people because the perpetrators never will.
Just watched a Bill Russell documentary on Netflix. He went through similar *ish.
I need to catch that
Boston was and still is very racist in particular areas. Bill won them 11 championships and he had to endure this 😮
White folks cool with you when you entertain them or kiss thier asses….. but, they’ll always hate you at the same time!!🤨💯
Yeah bill said boston loved him on the court,but he was a n@@er off. Boston is the worst!!!!
I love you Reese for your efforts to the young people 🙏
My late father played in the Negro League and told of a town they went to that told them they "better NOT beat our n-word", how they refused to give them ANY water and possibly lied and said they broke a window and made them pay for it. Miss me with the "that was in the past" crap. These folks are REALLY trying to go back to this era in time. My late grandmother told of how she was in church and I don't recall if it eas a day or night service, but the KKK came and marched through their church. How my family got through those indignities without losing it ..... God bless you
I’m 70. Reggie was depicted as “that uppity boy.” I was aware of the illogicalities of racism but not the felt sense. Subtleties from an isolated farm boy perspective only came incrementally. Very slowly. And still very incomplete. This is a primary learning edge in my life. That I don’t know the shoes of another and must not judge too easily, too quickly or harshly lest I be so wrong in ignorance if not trained oppression which is often a better descriptor and thus lose my way.
I find I don’t hate so much anymore but I surely pity those who’ve become overwhelmingly damaged, lost, dead or alive, in any way by and of the pain inflicted, the pain felt, the shared unequally pain and shame in our evolutionary process and it’s paradoxical meanings as if truth is absolute.
There but for the grace of mystery go I, this vail of tears, no one here gets out alive. Both the wretched curse and ugly enlightenment of humanity.
Still I’ll maintain a core belief in progress if not perfection in spite of deep misgivings.
This is why in spite of the debate I’ll vote for a man who while perhaps past his prime has known something of humility while his opponent has known apparently none.
But this societal formation has still disfigured the game. Only 6% of major league baseball players are American born Blacks now. America's game has been whited out. No more Willie Mays, Hank Aaron or Jackie Robinson. Not even a Ken Griffey or Barry Bonds.
I think you should do a video on the white folks that stood with us against racism, and the Jews and others that stood with us against the hate.😢 America has never really been great, it has been ok but could be better for everyone. 😊 So much more work to do.
Why? That changes nothing. America has never been ok for black folks.
First thanks for the acknowledgement of having older viewers because we are frequently assumed not to be in your space. When a young Black man has thoughtful, informative and challenging conversations you want to listen and subscribe. Regrettably, Brothers and Sisters, our parents, grandparents, etc. have experienced so much that we have inadvertently suppressed the many agressions we have experienced during our lives. I realized that fact during the BLM marches and discussions what I had ignored or compartmentalized. We are thankful for all of the people that are on YT, IG, TT, X, and all other social media including yourself who are standing in the gap educationing everyone about all of our journeys.
VOTE ❤
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I’m one of your older viewers. Yeah it was rough. My parents didn’t take us anywhere that was segregated. This was DC, which is the south.
I loved to watch Reggie play. I vaguely remember Willie Mays. My father loved baseball and took me to Griffith Stadium to watch the Senators, who constantly lost😢
I was 10 years old in 1969 and I used to wonder why my Grandfather used to seem so angry and on edge when ever he had to drive to a mostly white area in northwest Indiana,as kid I never noticed the stares and ugly looks that he used to get and the fact that he had to be extra careful to avoid being pulled over for any little thing.As I got older I realized that this was why he would be stressed out about this.
That is terrible!
The people who are mad are the sons of the people who did it.
They let Reggie say the hard R on TV? Because I heard it unedited somewhere.
They must’ve been blindsided
And Jesse could rhyme just as prodigiously as Reggie hit home runs
@@reesewaters I can see that. Story had to be told though
All of us can relate to these kind of stories. This Slavery ,Jim Crow, and Civil Rights periods in America were bad
. Time to keep going forward. We're not going backwards That time was terrible
Thanks for the shout out. Good Episode!
Right on, Reggie. Speak the truth. So sorry you experienced this treatment. I was 7 so this was happening in my lifetime. Normalized???!!! Shameful.
Great post Reese.
Thanks for the video Mr. Waters. Mr. Jackson was and is right on point
I was born in 1964, and until Dump, I truly thought that race relations were improving. Slowly, agonizingly so at some points, but steadily and consistently. Now, I don't know what to think.
That was brilliant and beautiful Reese.. Thank you to you for being you!
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 thank you Brad as always
And this period in America was so bad that a lot of older black people don't want to talk about it. That's why the younger ones are missing out on knowing that history straight from the elders.
❤ Always interesting 🤔 Always Great Reporting 👍 Video Shared 🎉
What ignorant, insensitive treatment. I had no idea things were that bad. God bless us.
Stories like this are important but what good are they if they don't help us become more loving to one another. We need absolute solidarity that makes a difference.
You are so right. Back in the day we had that love for each other. We helped each other with no questions asked. Now we're killing each other without hesitation. We as parents need to do better...
These story are to tell you don't vote Trump he's talking about rolling back Dr.King Civil Right bill.Wake up day after election not even human anymore
See if you were born after 1972. And didn’t travel into the south during 70’s. You’ll have no idea how much this country changed in the 70’s and 80’s.
Great segment young man. Very good. Keep them coming.
Thank you Reese for a Great job, Always.
Thank you for continuing to hold the mirror up! Some people would like to go back, most of us want to move forward. We need to keep calling it out for what it is.
Yes please do that segment!
I was about 5, or 6 years old and me and my brother had a sitter that watched us during the day. Her name was Mrs Smith and she 70 or 80 years old and never wore shoes. One day I asked her about her husband or did she ever have one. The answer she gave give me chills to this day and I'm 61 years old. Mrs Smith said they came in her house she lived somewhere in Mississippi poured gasoline on her husband while he laid in bed and set him on fire. I didn't understand what she was saying and I thought she was making this up so I never thought about it again until I was in class daydreaming I was in the eight grade and I just thought about what Mrs said to me and I new now what had happened to her husband I put my head down on my desk and a tear begin to form. So young people it was for real they treated our elders like animals and we as black people should never forget or forgive.
I was a kid when Aaron was chasing Ruth's record. I remember reading articles about all the negative /racist reactions to Hank Aaron even AFTER he broke the record.
I love your channel but just realized didn’t subscribe til now love your content
You had me nervous at “BUT” 🤣
@@reesewaters 😂😂😂😂keep doing your thing brother I’m here for it👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
💯Thank you for sharing this important information. 🇺🇸
Reggie Jackson speaking all kinds of truth. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time for us to go back to actually LISTENING to the wisdom of our elders.
Their experiences are lessons for us and our children.
I was born in 1951 many stories i heard some i lived thru
Im glad you showed that piece on Reggie Jackson! I saw that when it was on originally, and its CRAZY how much we dont know! I remember being a kid (white girl kid lol) and everyday wed play baseball, and everytime I got up to bat Id announce that 'Im Reggie Jackson'! Man, he was my hero, and I lived/live in Milwaukee, Wi. I followed all the news on him....but that shit never made the news! Unreal. Im glad though he was able to reflect on those times and for the sportscast to run it, and for us to hear it. It was really eye opening! 😔
Also, Im very happy to hear another of my heros, Rollie Fingers, was an allie 👍
As a retired professor of history, I wrote extensively regarding the African American experience in sports. You might find my essay interesting in Charles Ross's collection of essays entitled "Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field." My essay "Major League Baseball's Separate-and-Unequal Doctrine: The African and Latino Experience in Spring Training, 1945-1961" illustrates that during the initial integration phase, accommodation was the prevalent strategy used by these players, but by the early 1960s, it had dramatically changed. Minority players became less tolerant and more outspoken against racial indignities. One of the most outspoken black players of this era was Hank Aaron. Some scholars have written about the plight of players like Reggie Jackson went through.
Bravo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾⚾⚾⚾💜🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 we've been through it!!! Still I rise because that's what we do!💯👀
Thank you reggie Jackson !
We ALL need to hear this! (I also remember the Reggie candy bar!)
Recently discovered you page. Enjoying you content. Informative and thoughtful with a few laughs sprinkled in from time to time👍🏾