The Negro League & Their Fight Against Racism

This afternoon I watched a special on the MLB Network. It was about the history of the Negro Baseball league. I thought it was very interesting to watch. I am a person who dislikes the very thought of segregation. I believe it is an evil past of our country and really saddens me that something like this ever happened.

The players who were still alive to do this documentary told of how special this league was to them. They believed they were deserving enough to play in the Major Leagues, but the whites felt they weren't. How shameful those white people were. It's embarrassing to be a white person sometimes when you hear of how evil and cruel our race was to another race.

The old timers of the Negro League tell of how they were mistreated as baseball players. Especially on road trips, they said they would go three or four days without a shower because the hotels would not allow them to stay anywhere because of the color of their skin. They mentioned how they would go to a restaurant to eat they had to enter in the back door and get some handouts.

As they went to the deep south to play games they would be treated terrible. One night they were in Georgia to play a game and the Sheriff of that particular town told them there would be no game tonight. He said the field they would be playing on would be the sight of a KKK rally. In my mind those white people were idiots and disgraced their own race. I hope they repented later in life. Those who played in the Negro League were tough and really deserve great respect because of all the hatred they faced.

I literally hate racism! I really feel for all who were hated for the color of their skin. I feel no remorse though for any white person who ever beat, hanged or mistreated another person for the color of their skin. They will get their due penalty one day.

I know there is still racism going on today, but we have become more loving in this generation and have come to not look down on someone because of their color. Yet living in the south I hear things that really can set me off. And it disturbs me greatly! Live life with all no matter what our outside differences are. Christ would.