Just when we thought they couldn't stoop any lower, the Repugs are now claiming that Jackie Robinson, the black baseball star that broke the color barrier in professional baseball, was a Republican.
Link to Huffington Post
Evidently, Jackie was included on the "Heroes" page of a new RNC website that it supposed to show that the RNC is open to minority interests.
As pointed out by a democratic source:
The former Dodger, who broke baseball's color barrier, was far from a die-in-the-wool conservative. Robinson's ties to the GOP seemed more driven by a personal admiration for Nelson Rockefeller -- the New Yorker who would end up being vice president under Gerald Ford -- then it was core ideological convictions. In his biography, Robinson said that as the Republican Party leadership tilted towards Barry Goldwater conservatives, he began to have "a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
First, they want to re-write the bible to make it less liberal. Then Chuck Norris takes it upon himself to tell us what the founding fathers were thinking. Now they want to re-write history to make themselves more palatable to minorities.
I think Jackie says it best himself:
By and large Republicans had ignored blacks and sometimes handpicked a few servile leaders in the black community to be their token "niggers." How would I sound trying to go all out to sell Republicans to black people? They're not buying. They know better."
Robinson wrote of that 1964 convention. "I was a special delegate to the convention through an arrangement made by the Rockefeller office. That convention was one of the most unforgettable and frightening experiences of my life. The hatred I saw was unique to me because it was hatred directed against a white man. It embodied a revulsion for all he stood for, including his enlightened attitude toward black people."
I can't help but be amused by the song currently playing on my headphones: Fuck You by Lily Allen - "Fuck You, Very Much"