And on Fox TV no less.

Amen! 100%, don't protect the reality of the racist history of America for the sake of protecting white people's feelings by hiding the horrible things done to black people like Reggie Jackson. It's not righteous or moral.

I’m glad he did it, that could not have been easy and yet so many folks today NEED to hear this. What a champ he is in so many ways.

@@user-bc6ok1yh4s What an ignorant comment. Reggie was talking about the type of people who now work at MSNBC and CNN.

​@@MrThumbs63SORRY. Fox is by far the most racist

💯I heard an interview Reggie did with Chris Russo during the pandemic when his documentary aired and Reggie was just as angry, not as raw, but you could hear the frustration in his voice recalling his days in Kansas City before the A’s moved to Oakland. I told my mother who is actually older than Reggie, that at his age he doesn’t care about sugarcoating anything he is too old to be diplomatic at this point. We both said, keep speaking your mind Reggie. She said you just get to a point where you just don’t care anymore.

@@ronsworld250 Exactly. At that age, what can they do to you. You've pretty much seen it and done it. Reggie is not worried about harming his " Brand" or ticking off corporate America. He just called it like he lived it. Much Respect to Mr.Jackson.

No... that is a contemporary and childilike mindset of not giving a f***. Reggie reminds us of our history because he DOES care and wants to remind us of how we're not that removed from a time when things weren't 'great' for minorities and immigrants. Many of us know that MAGA is code for romanticizing a time when minorities, immigrants, women, LGBT, and others "knew their place" and how we must resoundingly reject this Fascist movement that needs to go away and be placed on the scrapheap of history with the Nazi's and other Fascists.

To be fair to Reggie, he never gave a f***, he's just older now but his voice is just as powerful. Weaker but just as powerful..

Yep. What are they gonna do? Cancel him? He's 78. He's paid his dues. He earned the right to tell his story unfiltered. Respect.

ABSOLUTLY!

#FACTS

Bingo long traveling all stars and motorcade is one of my favorite movies . It is a real since of negro league ball politics and segregation in that time. Peace and Reparations heals.

Watch Ken Burns' Baseball documentary about the Negro Leagues. They made the best of the situation and seemed to have a pretty good time, in an all-black community.

I applaud Dan as well. Not many white people are willing to acknowledge that race is the core problem in several issues in society.

That type of trauma never goes away!

​@@AJ-id2qfNever!

SO

@@petegrillo4187 so edgy. Now, there is the attention you sought.

@@antg007 baboones

And nearly half of them served the country in the US military. Yea, they were the ambassadors. And Ernie Banks also was in the negro leagues as well as served during the Korean War .

It caused his diabetes?

@@Hanover-ek4jy having all that anger & hatred pointed at him couldn't have been healthy, if nothing else his blood pressure would've been affected which is a big deal for diabetics. And that's not even talking about the mental toll it had to have taken on him. He probably had PTSD from all the mental trauma

@@Hanover-ek4jy stress may not cause diabetes but it definitely exacerbates it

Bro he had a heart attack that doctors linked to diabetes. I’m sure it wasn’t fun what he went through but unless he was eating cartoons of ice cream to cope with the stress then his early death was caused by poor diet and genetics. Stop the cap.

@@Hanover-ek4jy shhhh

Stop saying history like it was a storm and its gone away in the wind....lol😂....its still around

​@@pceezy1587 sad but true (sigh) hatredism

What are you going to do to help poor minorities? Action speaks louder than words!

@@chucklynch6523Don’t worry our time is coming, read Our African Hebrew Bible. 🙏🏿🤴🏾👸🏾❤️❤️

​@@chucklynch6523 Huh? Can u plez open that question up more... make it comprehensive!

Reparations heals, not white fragility and revisionist history.

We don't, they do!

This is not today’s America!

@@freeindeed8416yes it is

No, the U.S. isn't better than that. It was founded on genocide and slavery and hasn't truly reckoned with either. Native Americans were 100% of the population here. Now, they're less than 3% and still fighting for what little land they have left. That 's what the pipeline and water wars are about. Those pipelines cross Native American land and threaten their, and others, water supply. Unfortunately, they're losing the fight. Black folk are murdered by the police, live in substandard housing with substandard schools, with terrible maternal and infant mortality rates and overall lower life expectancy. Have improvements been made? Clearly, but not enough and not quickly enough, and the progress was made in spite of.

Thank you for sharing this

Its not that long ago......so its def not gone away.....

What's your point?

Yup and you have Jack ass DeSantis in Florida wants to stop everyone's History. That's why I won't spend a dime there anymore.

@@mbd501, more importantly, what’s yours?

@@mebeingU2 I didn't understand what point he's trying to make. Of course it's American history. And the sky's blue, too.

Got out of where? Not racism.

@@DrPhill96 Segregation.

@@tampabaybg - So the man explains how he was in it but baseball got him out?

@@DrPhill96 Baseball did get Willie out of the segregated south. There was racism everywhere, but none of it compared to the segregated south.

@@tampabaybg - Segregation was a national era, not regional. Who cares where it was worse, it was still segregation.

💯

Exactly!!

I posted something like this in another video. That’s the America they want back; If you don’t know that’s what MAGA really means you’re not paying attention

I understand your sentiment; however, I view that term as meaning make America great again economically, militarily, and in world leadership, areas in which we've been going downhill for the last 20-30 years. And that's happened on the watch of presidents from both parties.

So you don’t think that American wasn’t better as whole when we had strong industry, affordable housing, strong nuclear families, and didn’t have gigantic homeless encampments in every major city. When he says that statement, He lost afterwards how he plans on doing it and not one of them is “bring back segregation and open racism,” thats such a BS reach to make it all about this.

My good friend Greg said it's still very bigoted in Alabama..Probably will always be in certain areas around the country

@@BillBene67 America is bigoted. I’ve been all over this country and white supremacy is everywhere…..EVERYWHERE. At least in the south, people are upfront with their racist beliefs.

Whiteflight town younglings destroyed civility and humility in real-time America 🇺🇸

Not just America. Much longer in other countries, and against other races.

Alabama was the last state to repeal inter-racial marriage in 2000.

@@KeithChinmisterluh73yeah but it had been legal there since 1967 bc of the national bill that prevented states from imposing discriminatory laws like that. The law was a dead law that just sat on the books until someone had the bright idea to repeal it for media attention. There’s actually a law on the books in my state that says if you are going to drive a car into the city then you need to call city hall ahead of time so they know to get all the horses off the road.

@@1TightMinuteWell then, thank God for national/federal laws that supersede discriminatory state laws (like Alabama’s interracial marriage law and others). To hell with states’ rights.

Boohoo

And dead people that still vote.

​@@vanillaice7749 shut up devil

Reggie was an adult when he played minor league baseball in Birmingham.

Childhood trauma? Jackson was an adult.

Atonement and reconciliation matters. Reparations heals not white fragility and revisionist history.

Truth!

So true, many cannot understand that kind of pain.

@stingrey1571. I would refuse to be seated before you, give management a piece of my mind and invite you to join me at the table, just not at that establishment. Do tell, what was restaurant name unless it would cause further harm.

Don't patronize such places.

That’s not the same

It’s different than them burning crosses in your front yard and lynching you for whistling at a white woman. I’m not saying it’s ok or good. It still bad. However, saying nothings changed is minimizing the pain and the struggles that generation went through just to get it to the point that you don’t have to know fear like that in public.

@@1TightMinute Thank you

Go read “October 1964” by David Halberstam. It details the treatment of Curt Flood in the Southern league. Halberstam is a famous political author who wrote 5 sports books. Most consider his basketball book” Breaks of the game” to be the greatest basketball book ever written. You will not be able to put his books down. The companion book to “ October 1964” is Summer of ‘49. He also wrote a book on MJ and Arthur Ashe.

It's like that old Chris Rock joke, "They didn't go through that "I couldn't get a cab" s***. They WAS the cab." Like Colin Kaepernick, Reggie forced Amerikkka to do what it hates: look itself in the mirror and face itself.

⁠@@Gnofgagree. October 1964 was one of the best books I ever read, sports or non sports.

It was a nervous laugh, because they didn’t know what to do….An elder that they revere and respect was showing his vulnerability and trauma that he sustained due to racism…..they didn’t know what to say or do….so they nervously laughed….BUT They definitely understand the history behind the remark….

​@akaBrilliant26 A Stockholm syndrome Token wouldn't. Our misery is laughter to those who hate and self-hatred individuals. I see tokenism not insecurity.

“They Not Like Us” simply put. If you’re not FBA you can’t relate. It has to do with lineage.

It was to break up the tension.

A lot of people are still alive from that time

@Dusterbugless Mr October! God Bless Reggie

​@@Dusterbuglessthat time is still this time. Racism starts at home. Children aren't born with it.

​@@Dusterbugless Hey, didn't you knock out Mike Tyson back in the day? Is that an ear in your mouth? HA!

In the grand scope of things the Civil War wasn't long ago either. But some folks in this country act like it was 1000 years ago.

From a whiteflight town lunatic. Not a Freedman descendants aka FBA.

No you didn’t

Of course, it took a toll on Jackie. He was the trailblazer. Had to always be in control, be perfect. Had to be above it all, while ignoring the most foul taunting, insults, and outright threats. He died at 52, from complications of diabetes. Even though he was probably in better physical condition than 90% of the population, the stress, mental and emotional toll on him certainly shortened his life span. I'm not a doctor, but I'll turn 70 yrs. old this year. Always enjoyed watching Reggie play, and he certainly had his own swagger on the diamond. I've never been prouder of him than after i heard his remarks last night. Not that I had the same sort of experiences growing up in Texas, but a handful did leave an impression on me. It does stay with you long after you've moved on. I do know that my parents had some of that nature. Reggie overcame those events to become the legendary player and man we heard from last night. We all need to be more frank with one another, if we are to rise above some of the mistakes of the past!

He died from a heart attack brought on by diabetes. Stress will take a toll on you but the main cause of his death was bad diet and genetics.

They're both bottom feeding politicians. And yes... they would say something like that.

This didn’t happen yesterday

They got elected in a Southern state, didn’t they?

Dan didn’t bleep. He’s playing the clip as FOX posted it Find the clip and listen to the entire clip as a whole it’s more powerful than just this portion

@@edm3524 the threads clip I saw was uncensored so that could be played

Just sayin All the clips I have seen, the first two times Reggie describes instance of what was said to him it was bleeped, the third time he used the N word unbleeped I assumed that’s how FOX sent it out/posted Overall very powerful emotional description of events he experienced both negative (racism) and positive (those who had his back) I appreciate Regggie relating his experiences as well Dan Patrick and all the others I have seen engage in a thoughtful & tough discussion.

Great point!!!

Over a half a century ago things have changed for the better.

@@samsciascia4004yeah we shouldn’t have given up negro leagues etc

Yeah, with his CC B.S. A short while back he was a flaming MAGA himself! He's hoping it's all forgotten!