This shouldn’t be one of those facts that only a handful of people know but there you are. Today is “Jackie Robinson Day”, the anniversary of the day that Jackie Robinson, the first black athlete to play major league baseball in modern times, played his first major league game. There is therefore this story mentioned naturally in only one place that has been put out today: On Jackie Robinson Day, Let’s Remember When He Was Fired From the New York Post for Being Too Republican. Well yes, let us. I encourage you to read the whole article since it takes you back to a world that has gone down the memory hole. Telling you how it ends gives away nothing but sums things up quite well:

Jackie’s retort [on being fired], published at his new home in the New York Amsterdam News in January 1962, is filled with some classic Robinsonian acid:

No one will ever convince me that the Post acted in an honest manner. I believe the simple truth is that they became somewhat alarmed when they realized that I really meant to write what I believed. There is a peculiar parallel between some of our great Northern “liberals” and some of our outstanding Southern liberals.

Some of the people in both classes share the deep-seated convictions that only their convictions can possibly be the right ones. They both inevitably say the same thing: “We know the Negro and what is best for him.”

I care less about the hypocrisy of the left in this instance than I do about how we are now so used to the obliteration of the truth by the media-academic complex that we merely look at such things as just how it is without a sense of real outrage.

I might also mention that I am amazed at how little coverage there is of Lincoln’s assassination on the 150th anniversary of his tragic death.