For the sake of my adoring public, I am updating my blog... LOL! Wow, what is there to say? After class the other day, Ana, Karen and I spoke to one of the students about his thesis topic. He wrote about the culmination of the civil rights movement and sports. In particular, he focused on a Black baseball player named Larry Dolby. Now, I have followed baseball for a long time, but that name has never come up. Anyway, the guy who wrote the thesis is a history major, and is really interested in the roots of racism, social injustice and such. He talked about how "Whiteness" was defined in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... fascinating stuff. He then went on to talk about Larry Dolby and Jackie Robinson, and who would be the first Black person to play professional baseball. They both had similar backgrounds and such (served in the Navy during WWII, went to college, etc.). But here was the main reason Jackie Robinson was picked over Larry Dolby. As you would imagine, segragation was still rampant at that time, and at the ball parks, there were white sections and black sections. It all came down to who had the lighter skinned wife, in order for her to pass and sit in the white section. Can you frickin' believe that?!?! A guy missed out on his chance to make history beacsue his wife was too dark to sit in a frickin' seat!!! The student went on to talk about all the accalaides and and such that Jackie Robinson has receieved (retired number in all major league ball parks, hall of fame induction, numersous autobiographies and films, etc.). And Larry Dolby was finally inducted 50 years after his career was over and only has one biography, in which he barely gave input on. Was it that bad that there couldn't be two Black players in baseball at that time? Dayum!