Black History, like all history, is a mixed bag. Unfortunately, from the time the first slaves were transported to this continent until present, it seems that we keep taking two steps forward, then one step backward. Humans … seem to have an immense propensity for love, but also for hatred, and both are expressed in a myriad of ways. Brosephus’ post today shows us one of the uglier sides of humans and how it has played a role in Black History. Thanks, Bro!
Day five, and what better topic is there than the Hammer himself. On this date in 1934, the greatest player to ever wear an Atlanta Braves uniform was born in Mobile, Alabama. Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron would leave Mobile and go on to become the homerun king of Major League Baseball.
I could go on all day about his career, but we all are pretty familiar with his stats. What makes his career even more impressive is when you realize that he accomplished all he did while under constant threat to both himself and his family. Just as revisionism portrays Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr as someone who was supposedly beloved during his time on earth, Aaron wasn’t universally accepted and loved by America during his playing years.
I’ll give you just a few samples of the thousands upon thousands of hate letters he and the Braves organization received…
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Jill, I put this comment on Brosephus’ post, but want to add it here for emphasis. Keith
Brosephus, Henry Aaron was more than one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived, he was a class act. He took a lot of heat, not unlike Jackie Robinson, for excelling in baseball as he chased Babe Ruth’s record. He was not boastful, when he so easily could have been. He just quietly did his job and did it better than almost everyone. He, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Juan Marichal, et al are names from an era where Black players got opportunity and excelled at the previously restricted sport. Keith
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Thanks, Keith! I did see your comment on Bro’s post, but it is well worth reading again. You reminded me of some of the ball players I so admired in my youth!
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Good share Jill.
I had my 5 cents worth. Profiling White Racists and making biased statements against them. Just so they get on the receiving end.
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Thanks Roger … I did see your comment … well said!
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All further comments on them have been withheld. 😾
Folk of delicate sensibilities may be reading.
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Yeah, I try to remind myself of that. Sigh.
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😏
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I love his posts, they are quite sharp. But his Comment Section is difficult to sift through.
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Agreed. It seems to be a gathering place for all sorts of subjects and off-topics. Brosephus manages to find your comments though.
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That isn’t my worry. I worry that I am missing good comments from others, lost in all the unrelated crap that others post there.
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One advantage of being a UK civil servant of 40+ years my BS radar is highly tuned; just skimming on down.
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Oh, I can spot the bs, but there is so much of it I give up. I follow blogs where comments can come in the hundreds, but I read them all, trying to learn how people think and react. Having to sort through over 250 comments to find the gems just isn’t worth it to me.
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Some is so off-topic of it has a sort of morbid fascination for me, though I don’t hang around.
The posts are always spot on though, and there’s music…..
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Is there music? You mean background for or with the posts, or music posts? I have often wanted to play music in the background on certain posts, but had no idea that could be done. I hear nothing, never have.
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On the recent one there is a link to TLC’s ‘Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls’ with a video I’ve not seen, a similar arrangement to Jill’s. I click on the link and listen to while scrolling along. It seems to work.
Soundeagle on the other hand creates some wonderful montages of sound and image, which are works of art.
Hope that is of use.
Best wishes.
Roger
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Thanks, Roger. I never noticed them. Or maybe I was just more interested in the words. My eyes tend to skip over “objects” when engrossed in the words.
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Y’know, I have the opposite issue.
Together we could make it work?
Best wishes
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I think together we could make a lot of things work, for us. But without listeners it might all be in vain…
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Two of my besties teaming up … I’ll be your #1 listener!
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I’ll tell you tale rawgod…..
I spent 6 maybe 7 years writing a fantasy trilogy, total word count about 700,000 or so. I put it out in bits over the past 4 years and the response has been minimal (maybe it was too positive and upbeat)… That happens, it’s a risk ‘indie’ writers live with. The thing is, it’s out there, echoing and orbiting in the Universe.
If we strive, if we try to enrich and ‘put it out there’, that effort becomes part of the Universe in its glorious complexity, one magnificently small mote, maybe hardly a blink to the most observant, but it was created and thus never in vain.
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I’m hoping to have a book out soon, sort of self-published, that could also easily languish. The hope is it does not, of course, but with the amount of works out there someone is going to have to “discover it” in order for it to become popular. There is nothing normal about the book, as peple will see, but that could work against it as easily as work for it. But time will tell. I first wrote it in about 1998 or so, and it has two appendices, one of which was written in the 70s. Fingers are crossed,, lol. (Not the book you were reading Jill. But one written shortly after that one.)
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I look forward to reading your book!!!
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Not sure it is your cup-of-tea, but if I can get my way the first number of ebooks will be free, and hard copy books will be at cost only. Hard cover books, on the other hand, wll, I have not got that far yet…
The book takes place 10,000 years in the future (will we ever get there now?). But you won’t have to need to imagine all kindsof futuristic things, but to tell you why would be to ruin the surprise!
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Hmmmm … no, I’m not generally a fan of sci-fi, but it does sound interesting and I will read it because it was written by my dear friend. In all honesty, I don’t expect humans to survive the 21st century, let alone another 10k years, but it would be interesting to see how things might look after all that time.
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Your effort and resolve are the most important aspects my friend.
From those comes creativity which in turn will birth its own brightness.
Thence; Let the record show….You are here, you were there. You achieved creativity.
One small star in a cosmos, still leaves a record.
Strive on.
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My fiction days are basically over, as is most of my poetry writing. NowadaysI am writing what you are reading, and that takes up much of my time.
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Keep on keeping on. 👍
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I think that the best writers are those who write for themselves first. If others love their work and buy their book, that is great, but that’s not the reason to write … we write for ourselves first.
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Fer sure!! When we write we soar.
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Indeed he does … he is a more patient person than I!!!
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Yep! I hear you talkin’ sister. Know that feeling.
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I agree … the comment section becomes more of a social media outlet, but I rarely read the comments there, or if I’m looking to see what one of my readers has said, I just scroll past all the rest. His commentary and his opinions are worth it.
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