Actually there were 2 types of guys that used ni@@er...those with negative intentions and those with good intentions, I can remember the 1970s when old timers would call us ni@@ers, not all of them considered us less than them, it was just how they spoke, if they paid us the same amount as white kids for doing work they were cool to us, we lived by stick and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me😮

Not only that, but Bear Bryant died in January 1983. Reggie Jackson retired from MLB in 1987. Bear Bryant did not attend Reggie Jackson’s last MLB game.

Yo....Fam....Them White folks thought that was normal.

​​@@bnice29I want to give Mr October a pass on that one cuz he is older...

@stephenbranson3902, you are absolutely correct, no REAL friend would’ve ever used such a word.

It still goes on today

@@KtotheGabsolutely

Reggie is wanting to be relevant again. When all else fails play that race card !!

If you want to be relevant again just play the race card. Racist will run with it !

​@@shayparis2213why does it have to be the race card when it's what he went through??

Were you alive in the 60's? It's just the language a lot of ppl used. It means something different today than it meant then. Get over it and grow up. Integration is past.

​@@mr.g1758your feeble explanation is full of bul💩😎

💯

Key word right THERE. "Tollerate". We've never been "accepted", nor "celebrated" here. Not subjective, but objective...

Yep

and put money in his pockets

We're sorry for people calling you names. You seem to be asking for help getting over that form of identification, we are very sorry and promise not to use words like that again. Please forgive us, thank you, we love you. Amen.

Being ignorant is what they are great at doing.

Being EVIL 😈 is their DNA 🧬

We all got some work to do or we’re gonna lose this battle…

I dont get how reggie saying that was his friend

Without teeth, in my earshot….

He spoke it with courage and dignity, nothing but respect for that.

🎯

who said we are surprised ?

Thank you,?tell those that keep going to sleep

No this is Amerikkka

& king James-5pj you are so right

Oh really? I'm not saying that he's making up what Bryant said, but he's clearly wrong on at least two things he said. First, he said that a few months after Bryant called him that name in 1967, USC and Sam Cunningham went to Alabama and beat them 42-10. Well, that game was played in 1970 (three years after the incident in 1967) and the score was 42-21. Maybe not a big deal, but he clearly was wrong about the date and the score. Second, he said that Bryant attended his last game, which was in Chicago. Well, while Jackson's last game was in Chicago on October 4, 1987, Bryant had been dead for over four years at that time. He died on January 26, 1983. So, who knows if anything Jacson said in this video is accurate.

​@kaylaf4536 You're splitting hairs, you ignoramus.

Narcissists do it also. Don't be a fool

@@kaylaf4536 you may forget when someone said something, but not what they said.

@@kaylaf4536 Oh Bogatishev GOLUBOI kleminskyzzzz hush 😂orcboi

I know it's all facts, because I grew up in Chattanooga!

@@ct2634Tennessee

The last game Reggie played in Alabama was 1967, Bo Schembechler 1st yr as coach at Michigan was in 1969, the Sam Cunningham/USC game he speaks of happened in 1970. None of this story is true.

I don't doubt the basic essence is true, even though I also heard some incorrect statements, including John McKay was the USC coach in the 1960s and for the Sam Bam Cunningham game at Legion Field. And Bear wasn't alive when Reggie played his last MLB game, but so what

Of course they do !! Paul Finebaum was almost surely right there with the rest of the crowd calling out the "N Boys"; however, he would commit hara kiri before admitting it.

Just ask Tommy Tuberville. POS took his ignorance to the senate with him but was in good company. Surrounded by the rest of the republican racist and bigots.

That's no secret. The truth is, Vanderbilt had the first black player in the SEC. That's what got the Alabama administration to change its mind.

USC's Sam Bam Cunningham ran over Alabama and THAT changed everything ... dammit we have to recruit those n_____ if we're going to continue to WIN.

Still happening… Read the Book 40 Million Dollar Slaves

And even worse, he was lionized for decades in the south.

That was a huge part of the problem. I think America, as a whole, has to get some credit for getting better.

​@@Amick44Mainly in Alabama...

Literally almost every white person in the South was like that at that time.

And Reggie saying he meant it as a compliment also calling him a Friend. Big problems in the "Go along to get along" era of the Black community.

Why needs to be heard 60 yrs after the fact? He said Bryant was his friend. We have moved past those days and Reg digging this up only shows unforgiveness on his part.

Yes Ma'am!!!❤

@@mr.g1758 In your words, baloney! You know good and well we have not moved past it. Just think about you and your friends and how you talk. Do this, peruse youtube and click on some black youtubes vlog and then read the comments. You will find some of the most vile and racist hate. These are comments left on black youtubers vlogs to other black people. White people and others-some wannabe white Asians and Hispanics actually go to black vlogs to leave racist commentary. Yes, some opportunities have changed but the most virulent among racist whites have not changed.

What "look", WHITE? But YOU are not racist, right LeRoy?

He be lookin' WHITE, he be evil, I knows it, I just KNOWS IT!

​@@gghostrrider"when they go low we go high" whats that mean?

🙄🙄🙄​@@gghostrrider

He was probably the one driving the car doing those drive-bys at civil rights leaders

The last game Reggie played in Alabama was 1967, Bo Schembechler 1st yr as coach at Michigan was in 1969, the Sam Cunningham/USC game he speaks of happened in 1970. None of this story is true.

@@macgordon9523 were u there? Just like a grifter find a way to discredit the victim in favor of white position. Discredit the millions of other days a racism in America! What bout those???? U have a timeline, hypothesis or nuanced explanation for the lynchings??? The murders? The rapes? The massive land stolen ?? The homosexual slave owners who violated??? You have dates and time stamps for the mutilations ??? The family separations? The millions of false incarcerations???? The money stolen? Lives forever disjointed???? What say you about accreditation!??? Gone sit here and wait 🤔! STFU!!!!!

​@@macgordon9523why would he lie ? He's Reggie Jackson and doesn't need to pretend.

The last game Reggie played in Alabama was 1967, Bo Schembechler 1st yr as coach at Michigan was in 1969, the Sam Cunningham/USC game he speaks of happened in 1970. None of this story is true.

Nothing wrong with him speaking, but he should not consider that man his friend.

Same to you. Bryant paved the way for scores of blacks to succeed. Ask THEM instead of Mr. October. You might get a different story.

Agreed 👍🏾 💯, not just sports everywhere else

I'm saying it right now. It just rolls off the tongue.

@@patrickscopas9133 *I know it's part of who and what you are, i understand you just can't help yourself*

There ain't a home run in his resume that he hit as hard as he's hit the last couple of weeks. Reggie stopped the show and brought the damn house down.

The last game Reggie played in Alabama was 1967, Bo Schembechler 1st yr as coach at Michigan was in 1969, the Sam Cunningham/USC game he speaks of happened in 1970. None of this story is true.

Of course.

Wytes still think like that

Some whites

The sad thing is they think it is their privilege, but won’t call it what it is, which is racism. They know to be a racist is evil and can’t call themselves evil because it would make them be the same thing that they think blacks are.

To believe you are less then someone because of race and color is ignorant.

It isn't "was", America is "still" racist and it is not just the South.

@@gidgethrobowski3860the whites only signs came down but the behavior changed.

Agreed 👍🏾 always

Facts 💯

It seems that’s all the have now. They call each that very word while they shoot wildly at one another 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@dixielivin Yeah white on white crime will never stop!!

Mercy.....

..and he left his inheritance to a yt wife

@@jcallen12003 We both know a man will stick his stick in anything when given the chance. But I think he is referring to Caucasian men, which are the most salacious deviant creatures on earth.

He wasn’t on a road trip. He and his wife were at an awards dinner in Boston. It was supposed to be a peace offering by the Boston powers that be to offer their apologies on how awfully he was treated by Boston fans. But then …

Form their own people.

Daily

and what is that?

That forgiving is one of the reasons racist still exists.

Stop forgiving… i never have and never will . Ppl pay for what they do

@@mayy9685you’re smart

No, it's not. It's 1960s Southern Democrat Alabama. But you like to live in the past, and obsess about race. Because that's the kind of person you are.

@@JK-br1muyes it is the foundation of America

@@KP-dk9qq no, but foundation would mean in the past anyway. America is less racist than most places around the world. Racism elsewhere was just the regular way of the world and nobody made a big deal of it. White Europeans in Western nations were the first to say it was wrong.

If you've ever been seriously injured and can still see the physical scars, you will remember the details like it happened yesterday. Psychological injuries and lingering scars are no different, you may not necessarily see them but the feeling stays with you.

Articulate 🙃🙃…Can you speak Swahili?

@@toddtarbleI always find it interesting when people say he/she is, “so articulate.”

@@sharonguyton9119 Colonized minds…

Again, ignoring what he did for scores of black players. Were you there? I was.

“Merica was never waycist” 😮

I think the history about the slave quarters, forts in Ghana, or the 12000 slaves Mansa Musa broght to the colonies, The Muslim slave trade all should be included.

You are a liar! None want to erase history more than the house negroes on the Democrat plantation! The Republicans fought, bled and died as the Union trying to free blacks from the Confederate Democrat plantation - but LBJ offered some cornbread and all the house negroes came flooding back to the Confederate Democrat plantation and still there in 2024 because "YOU AINT BLACK!" if you don't vote for the Democrats- so who really trying to erase history??? ????????????

The entire Republican party wants to erase

@D.dot. the Republicans fought bled and died to set my people from from Democrat Confederate plantations: Who is trying to erase history again???

Thats why he said. He rather play in mexico than in usa

reggie is also puerto rican from both his father and mother. the difference is reggie was born and raised in the usa.

@@shawnarcher9565 difference reggie jackson lost his culture n identity due to him being raise in usa Roberto clemente is actually from puerto rico n goes to latin american countries all the time Reggie jackson was born n raise in wrong country

Remember his most famous quote..?

@@DENNISAVERY-xi5jb But he didn't so you can't believe him

Damn! I would have transferred to rival school.

Thus, the northwest suburbs of Chicago...

Went to school during the same time frame.... in the South. Got called boy and the n-word all the time also. All black school... All black. That word carries Zero weight today. Why are we still discussing it?

Naw.. y'all allowed that.

​@@6_30where in the NW Suburbs?

All of it counts when there are forces still behaving the same way in different disguises. 👍.

But what does that have to do with Reggie Jackson and bear Bryant .

Well that was a possibility that he could have been blackballed back then during that era

Yeah but look at the price he paid for holding that in. To be a man in the End ain't worth all the riches(Ali)

reggie talked with his bat and was a hero in oakland ca he lived there and even when he went to the yankees he still kept his house in oakland, plus he owned car dealerships there. i'm white so what i'm not going to apologize for those people in the south or anywhere else ever. they are who they are. 3 world championships in a row and reggie was the heart and soul of that team plus he was a hero for many other reasons in the community in oakland. reggie had and still has class. he doesn't get in the gutter. people should learn that have some class.

@@shawnarcher9565 yeah u would call it class being a dis connected white man. Call the people what they are, don't use the south as an excuse what about the northern Racist? Get help for that ish.

You are right, Reggie should have talked about this year's ago. But, I think it is rather ironic Reggie somewhat now speaking out, I mean, what with all the racism from trump Maga, white supremacist groups, the numerous killings of Black people by cops, especially Black men I think he felt its time to tell my story. Thus is just my opinion. I don't have to be right.

By this fool calling this racist overseer a friend? Our ancestors wants no part of this foolishness. They had dignity and self respect. I didn't know he could sound so ignorant.

It's the Truth MAGAs Can't Handle.

The last game Reggie played in Alabama was 1967, Bo Schembechler 1st yr as coach at Michigan was in 1969, the Sam Cunningham/USC game he speaks of happened in 1970. None of this story is true.

He’s letting you know that he regrets not speaking up. But you didn’t catch that, did you?

I thought his timeline was off. He's getting older now.

The score was 42-20, not 10. And the "Johnny" coach he referred to was McKay, not Robinson who became coach in 1976.

the facts of the game are not important- what is- that Bryant died a racist - and if he came back to life- he would still be a racist- lol

@@pierrerochon7271 Were you with him in his final moments? You don't know his thoughts. Every time you hear a rapper say the n-word are saying they are racists? If not then your a hypocrite.

@@pierrerochon7271 he said what blacks say everyday. Are blacks racists too?

Interesting. I'll have to look into that.

💯 correct

And telling it to the World, RESPECT 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💙🌟

We already know it sadly

True. Constant hate, disrespect, terrorizing acts, inhumane treatment, wretched images, and nothing positive fed to you all day and every day, can convince anyone to hate themselves. We were programmed to hate our bodies. Many of us are beginning to see what was intentionally done to us as a people. we can stop. We can acknowledge our pain and start loving ourselves and our people. I embrace the image God gave us. And I love all shades of my people. I embrace and choose to show love and respect for all those in my race.

God did it! 😴

Agreed 👍🏾

I gotta read his book.

Racism is a huge part of America. Yesterday and today!

It still is around the world 🌎

Amen. I wish we had many acting studios so we could make our own movies about our experiences in shaping this country and world.

Good call my man. I said the same thing as a USC fan and a SoCal guy. Just a misstatement.

True, also Reggie said it was 1967 and then a few months later SC beat Alabama. Actually, it was a few years later, 1970.

Thank you for posting, I was going to correct that mistake too.

It had to much chocolate in it and not enough vanilla!!

I ask that same question about Bo Jackson's sweet potato pie. It just disappeared….

Nothing but praise. They know their own.

@CheniceWright you got that right, they know their own.

lol saban knows how lice creatures are

@@Jesse-ii5md

​@@dcxxxxdefinitely

Yeah, right. That is so sad.

😂 says another racist 🙄

Agreed 👍🏾

Point missed, cherry picker😂

He's an old man now. He may have been thinking about Johnny Majors

Same here in Ohio

💯 correct

Everywhere

Found ANOTHER racist commenter here. This comment section is LOADED with feral racists like a Klan gathering, only much darker skin.