Reggie Jackson Remembers And He's NOT Alone

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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[grapeshot]

Boy, is he making racists super angry on Twitter😂😂😂 they can't stand it when a mirror is shown to their faces.

[MrTee]

*Before someone says it...this is NOT VICTIMHOOD...This was HIS EXPERIENCE!* All power to Reggie & all who had to endure!

[sophiad.livingston]

Man... I was born in '67. Had to grow up in that racial climate.

[Nik]

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.

[csu]

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.

[alanfike]

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.

[maureencora]

Reggie Jackson Give a MAGA History Lesson. God Bless Him.

[cynthiasellers]

Reggie is not lying. I was born in 58 and I lived through it.

[Flonet]

I was born 1958 in Louisiana. Louisiana is still backwards.

[joemomma]

I just wanna know where is Tim Scott & his “supporters” are and what they gotta say about this!

[debiwhite]

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.

[CCJJChannels]

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

[NubianGoddess]

I think we need more black elders to come out and tell their story along with what they remember during the time.

[joemomma]

I live near the KKKlan & their headquarters! I’m in the midworst aka Killinois! They are all over this state!

[DJMBindowo-lv]

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.

[miltonpickering]

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.

[margaretw]

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

[justtrust]

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 it could have been he just did not want to deal with what my mom had down in her purse.

[laxpaint]

The people who are mad are the sons of the people who did it.

[LeoBlight]

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!