Calling out the fact that America has never been great for people of color, women, same sex couples, ect. is not hating America. It is pointing out the work we still need to do to make it truly great for everyone.

I don't ever want that America back. Reggie was amazingly strong to have even survived that mental anguish.

*Larry Burkett's book on "Giving and Tithing" drew me closer to God and helped my spirituality. 2020 was a year I literally lived it. I cashed in my life savings and gave it all away. My total giving amounted to 40,000 dollars. Everyone thought I was delusional. Today, 1 receive 85,000 dollars every two months. I have a property in Calabasas, CA, and travel a lot. God has promoted me more than once and opened doors for me to live beyond my dreams. God kept to his promises to and for me*

Marrying a Latina from Brazil opened my eyes to reality. Watching her family be forced to turn out their pockets before they were allowed to leave the store, being singled out for “enhanced security checks” EVERY SINGLE TIME they fly, watching my wife be treated as a second class citizen, bordering on being treated like a criminal at times. And this wasn’t back in the 1960s. This is late 1990s until today. Sorry, but the racism and xenophobia is undeniable. I’m glad Reggie said what he said. Sadly, the people that need to hear and understand it will not pay attention.

We don't hate America! We are just honest about our country!

REGGIE WAS CORRECT!!!!

It's the hurt that I hear in his voice . So tell me that this country was never racist 🙄 🤦🏿😢.

That lady wearing the baseball hat said the most idiotic statement

America dont need to be great. It just needs to be more educated.

Reggie ONLY told the TRUTH!!

"Racism is as American as apple pie, but not addressing it doesn't make it disappear. Education and compassion are steps in the right direction."

I’m Hispanic grew up in Chicago, and remember when Jackson played. Lots of white people I knew were low key racist when talking about Jackson as much as calling him uppity.

It needs to be said. Reggie tells the truth.

I was a white high school kid in the 60’s. I needed to buy a new master cylinder for my Jeep so I went and picked pears along with workers that had come up from Mexico. We started 4 am and quit at 6pm. Those guys could work so Fast! They showed me tricks, and started to like me. One evening they took me back to their encampment. The old beat up cars, their cooking fires, their tin shacks the landowner had put up with no plumbing: I had never dreamed people had to live like that. It made me mad at my own ignorance. And yet their generosity toward me a white boy, was touching. We got paid at the end of every week: 23 cents per 50# box. That was August; when I returned to school in September, a different kind of white boy was I.

Imagine how much worse it was for Jackie Robinson in 1947, Willie Mays in 1951, and Hank Aaron who entered MLB in 1954.

Someone should send this to Nicky Haley, she said America has never been racist.

You won’t see a word of this on Fox News!

America was arguably great before it was even discovered

I'm a white guy living in Phoenix, Arizona. Reggie lived in my neighborhood in Tempe, Arizona when I was a boy. I loved Reggie. Reggie, in the off season would run down at Hudson Elementary School. He was raw power, like none of us kids had ever seen. We would watch him run windsprints. It was the coolest. He was great to us too. He is an ASU alum like me. He was truly one of the greatest guys to come through the university. He was loved in our community, especially by me and my friends. When I heard what he was saying it broke me up. I wasn't raised like that. My dad worked Mesa Community College so we had athletes living with us on several occasions. Many of them were black. I see color, I see the pain and frustration in Reggie. I want to feel that pain. There's no doubt America has never been great for everyone. MAGAGA ( notice the gag in there??) supporters have no idea the pain marginalized people have and still do live with. I was lucky my folks were both educators so people from all backgrounds were extremely important to them. The division going on is a game to Trump but it's not a game for people of color. In fact, the game has been rigged against them for far too long. To me, MAGAGA is just dark space. I'm a truly blessed man to grow up like I did but anybody who says they don't see color, isn't looking hard enough. People of color built America as much if not more than anyone. They are the true patriots because they have been dealt the worst hand you could get in a poker game and always try to make the best of it that hand. Those like Reggie are truly what is great about America . They've endured the most and kept going. That's what makes someone great. There is not one thing that is great about Trump and his cult. Not one! Greatness isn't defined by what you have it's defined by what you don't. Think about that. Brighter days are coming. New leaders are coming up. Let's get out of the dark space in November. Let's put MAGAGA in the past where they belong along with the other not so great things some in America have allowed to happen.

Once again, they expect us to simply forget about it. My mother is in the hospital, deeply emotional as she reflects on the difficult life she's had. Since she might not be here with us much longer, we're putting her affairs in order, and now she's opening up about her life. I just saw her birth certificate with "colored" stamped on it. You can imagine how furious I am seeing this. I want to see the entire system of institutional racism destroyed in the West. I feel her pain as she recounts her childhood, growing up as a little girl who faced the harsh reality of segregation. My mother, growing up as little girl looking at no color allow sign as a 4 year old! But, years later, you discover that people of African descent have the richest history in the world. Your ancestors built the pyramids and temples of Kemet/Egypt and were the first people on Earth, originating from the Out of Africa theory. In addition, you find out your people have some of the greatest empires in the world.

Bragging about how 'great' we are is just embarrassing. We need to grow up, stop the bragging, and focus on what needs to be done so not one single American goes to bed hungry, or has no place to sleep, or doesn't have enough food to feed their family.

Well said, Reggie Jackson. This is a clip you'll never see on FOX News.

Sadly, these people fail to realize racism is never great, not even for them.

You can hear it in his voice, he's still hurting.

The last time America was great was right before the Pilgrims arrived

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="470">7:50</a> "Humanity, not Hannity."

If you've never had to have a Court case decide, or a law passed, to ensure that you have equal Rights - then you're privileged!😮

It is almost like an insult that this is news. They should have been appreciated all along. As an American, I find it embarrassing and painful.

Never figured out when it was great, I thought things were getting better than ever, then came trump, and it went to shit.

Racism has never stopped my grandfather Puerto riRcan World War 1 injured. He came out from a different door that white people came out when he got off the military plane. But in the meantime, my father, World War 2 veteran, and my whole family, who have served Usa .Puerto Rican are still second-class citizens . Reggie Jackson is 100 percent right. The USA is a very racist.

As we know-if we forget where we’ve been we are doomed to repeat it.

People that ask “when was America great?” Don’t hate America, we just understand its history…we just want to know if you do too…

What Republicans are really saying is let's make the Confederation great again.

We never been great, not for everyone anyway......

America is a work in progress and I'm totally striving to do my part in it. God bless America

People don't like being reminded of the truth.

So glad Mr. Jackson told his story. People, particularly many of the white ones want to romanticize the history of this country. Completely ignoring or flat out dismissing the experience of others, like Reggie Jackson. America has become BETTER for black people, but it was NEVER great for them. Thank God for the few whites that understood early on, when it wasn't popular to do so and the famous ones who used their influence like Marilyn Monroe for Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra for Sammy Davis Jr. Demanding thet their black colleagues got equal treatment.

I bet that that was a real shock to the Fox audience, but Mr. October knocked it out of the park again by telling the unvarnished truth of his experience. and if people were treating one of the biggest sports stars in the country like that, you can be certain that it was far worse for everyday black American.

Thanks Reggie for not white washing what took place back then. People are in disbelief but, this shit happened!!! You too Reggie was a helluva ball player.

What people should realize is if you went somewhere and you were the minority how would you like to be treated. It’s really this simple.

Frank Sinatra had many flaws but racism wasn’t one of them

The Maga cult continues 🙄 😑

Thank you Mr. Jackson for publicly speaking the truth about America's lack of greatness since it's founding.

HATRED IS FOR THE WEAK AND PATHETIC NOT THE STRONG AND BRAVE!!!!

It's not that we should "make America great again," it's that we should make America great!

I’m 57 years old from California and Reggie Jackson was my favorite player I had a Oakland A’s helmet and went crazy for his candy bar

This tears me to pieces. I remember watching Reggie with my dad in the 70’s. I had no idea this was happening to him. He was one of my heroes I am so pissed that there were people that treated him this way or anybody for that matter.

Very moving and true words from Reggie Jackson. I got goosebumps from hearing him...very emotional.

What Reggie said made me tear up. Reggie is a beautiful man.

Need to hear Reggie speak more often. Him and Kareem keep it real.✊

REGGIE JACKSON WAS TELLING THE TRUTH.GOD BLESS REGGIE JACKSON

Thank you Reggie Jackson for telling the truth that right wing America wants to deny!

I remember watching Reggie in the old Yankee stadium and thought he was the greatest. Good to see he still is.👍👍👍

Respect to Mr. October.

Another clutch homer for the great Reg!!!!!!!!!

That little speech by Sinatra should be put up in every classroom and public facility!

One of my all time favorite Jackie Robinson stories is he had a teammate in 1947 named Eddie Stanky a second basemen. That year the Phillies had a manager named Ben Chapman who was notoriously brutal with his racist taunts to Jackie and in one game it got really bad and Stanky finally got in Chapman's face and told him to knock it off even though he previously said he wasn't in favor in integration but was willing to support Jackie because Jackie was his teammate and the movie 42 depicts it brilliantly.

Reggie is the real deal. Always been smart, tough, and competitive as hell...The Athletics were the same in the 70's..

Can you imagine a person you admire saying “I have done more for blacks than MLK and Lincoln because I made corporations strong and gave blacks a place to clean”

If they ever tell me that I hate America… I inform them that I’m a veteran, then I ask have they served. If they say no, I say, obviously I love it more because I actually volunteered my life for it…

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son* (1955)

Living won't be easy, and the lies outnumber the flies. Holy Hell. Welcome to America.

No one stuck in the past ever did anything great. Time to use our grit and toughen up to the criticism that actually leads to greatness.

“Judging others as better or worse. Well, that’s a game for losers.” Well stated! Thank you!

Preach it Brother Reggie!!

Thank you Reggie for telling the whole truth.

I heard during the 1960's a slogan many seemed to embrace, " America right or wrong." First heard as a retort to what was being said by the protesters of the Vietnam war. But out of that came an answer that I embrace, "America, right its wrongs." I'm over seventy years old now and to hear what people like Mr. Jackson say, and endured, and watching what is happening brings me to tears. America, right its wrong so to have hope of greatness.

I also grew up a Red Sox fan and booed Reggie Jackson not over his race just his uniform. I love baseball and it for me is a distraction from all the craziness in the world. Saying that I am glad Reggie spoke up, just watching David's reaction is telling. MAGA has made it okay to be a racist, sexist, homophobic bigot again. I was a die hard Republican who voted straight Republican since 1988 to 2012. After Jan. 6 I left the party and vote against anyone who supports Trump or is connected to MAGA. Thanks Reggie! I never booed you sir just the uniform. Keep speaking your mind sir.

Last thirty seconds of this video needs to be on repeat until January 20 2025🎉

Reggie played strong, looked strong, but we didn’t no what was going on in the background. I applaud him for speaking the truth. I hope for the best for Reggie and all the guys who backed him up! HGUERRA

The legendary Beatles would never play if the venue was segregated. The Rolling Stones preferred hanging out with black families. Every little bit helped!

“Humanity, not Hannity.” B-u-u-r-r-r-n-e-d ! 🔥

God bless you, Mr. Jackson. God bless you.❤❤❤

Regis is STILL Mr. October!!! Bad ass man!!! Baseball has been a microcosm of white supremacy through the United States and it is pathetic that MAGA wants to go back to that!!!

This is a powerful 8.5 minute video. Required viewing for all baseball fans, young & old. Especially the young.

Chairman of the Board was ALWAYS ahead of his time -

All the respect Sir, You're telling the truth. It was awful for you. The real history of America needs to be talked about. And learned from.

Make Authoritarianism Go Away! Vote blue 🔵 across the board!

America IS great. Precisely *because* we openly call ourselves out for our own bullsh1t, and try to correct it.

Being from Canada I was sheltered from racism. My first experience with racism was in about 2007 and was driving for Schneider National. I was at a truck stop near Mobile Alabama and was waiting in line at the cashier to pay for my purchase and a guy was paying for his gas. He made a racist comment to the cashier because he was told to look at his pump number was. The cashier to her credit remained calm and respectful. I told her to send the manager out to my truck and I'll back her up if there is a complaint. No one deserves to be treated like that no matter who you are.

The truth about history must be told regardless of how anyone feels about it.

I'm crying. It breaks my heart to see what people deal with. Brought back memories of me and my siblings being the only black people in our school. America is racist, not great.

Make America great for ALL Americans!

Reconstruction was supposed to be our new way but folks hated that so much they decided Black Codes and Jim Crow was better.

The IDEA of America is great it's just had a tough time getting there we've made progress but we still have a lot of work to do.

I grew up in a racist and baseball loving family. I was young but my father said “don’t ever let the boys tell you you can’t play ball” He was such an advocate but so patriarchal and racist in so many other ways. Very confusing and I always spoke up. Needless to say I wasn’t too popular. Coming full circle I’m glad to see some improvement. Now we must continue fighting against sexism and homophobia as well.

I'm glad Reggie had a team and manager that stood up for him. A good man inspires loyalty from his teamates.

To directly address the question. I was talked with an individual in a dive bar in Cleveland (after I almost got locked in the downtown mall that apparently closes at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a>pm) and he told me a story of when his father was working one of those high paying manufacturing automotive jobs. When the factory was fully integrated his father's black coworker assumed a similarly high salary. Years later his father was shocked to learn his black coworker hadn't fled to the burbs but instead still lived in the city projects. The man explained that that was his community and getting to be santa claus for ever kid on the floor beat having a nice lawn and a long driveway...... That was a better America.

I endorse His message

Thank You Mr Jackson.

When others gain the same rights you've always had, you are not oppressed!😮

Truth and reconciliation has yet to be achieved

Mr Jackson is not exaggerating. I was 11 years old in 1967.Visited my mother's family down in Louisiana starting in the late 1950s. But i can still remember the how Black people were totally humiliated in public spaces as early as five years old. I mean you were made to feel like absolutely nothing.My first image was the separate water fountains. The White one was nice and big and shining. The colored one was much smaller,duller and beat up.But here is the kicker.Both fountains shared a common water line.I was so thirsty. But my parents could see my confusion Both they and the elders made it emphatically clear that none of us three kids were to drink from the colored fountain. The next images were the Confederate statues,Flags,plaques and memorials. EVERY WHERE. Those elders were so happy and comfortable in the sanctuary of their homes. But man once they ventured into public spaces ,their whole demeanor changed. The strongest and most dignified people i ever saw.Stern and quiet. They did their shopping or whatever else they had to do. As i look back to that experience, the whole set up was a psychological mindf**k.Designed to destroy the spirit of a people. But i learned early on how dangerous it could be if any of us three kids violated the racial codes and the Jim Crow etiquette.

I worked for the team physician for the Oakland A's. I remember Reggie Jackson trying out a speech he planed for Mr. Finley. He was very articulate and well spoken. I can remember saying it sounded great to me, but that l obviously wasn't Mr. Finley!!!! I was very young then, now l am no longer young, but l remember that clearly. Years later, my brother begged me to get a licence place holder that said "Reggie Jackson Chevrolet". He is thoughtful and articulate.

I truly believe that the MAGA crowd believes that the days of Jim Crow, black segregation, before women could vote, and before brown immigrants came from Latin America was when America used to be great. We can't allow our country to revert back to those days. Vote!!

This, in my eyes, was the best part of the entire night. Reggie put it on the table with honesty. Birmingham was not called “Bombingham” for nothin’.

I’m 70 and back in the in the mid 70’s Reggie Was the man, black’s and other minorities had to struggle and that includes the LGBTQ community. I’m of Puerto Rican decent, my Father Served 20 years in the USN and is buried at the military cemetery at Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico, with full Honors, I served 77’’-89’ and hope the day I pass I can be buried next to him. I was looking at his flag and the tears started to flow. My wife asked what was wrong and I spoke about my Father who dedicated his life to serve and I give him and my mother major thanks for raising me the was they did. Vote 💙💙💙🇺🇸💙💙💙

I didn't know about what Marylin Monroe did for Ella Fitzgerald. Her imagine of bimbo just disappeared in my mind. Like Ella, she was a national treasure. Rest in peace the two of ladies. You were the best the USA can produce

62 here and have even as a child questioned why we called ourselves the greatest country in the world and when did we start calling ourselves that, TY Reggie Jackson for speaking the truth of that time and still this time more and more often😢

Mr. Jackson you are a legend. God bless you