"Over the weekend, Major League Baseball will laud Jackie Robinson for his role in integrating the game and, ultimately, the country. At the same time, it will conveniently ignore another manner in which Robinson was far ahead of his time.
Given the choice, he probably would have chosen to play another sport professionally instead of baseball."
How presumptuous: "Jackie Robinson would have chosen to play another sport."I don't think it's disrespectful to Jackie Robinson or the civil rights movement if young, black athletes choose to not play baseball. Or if young, black men choose, instead, to be software engineers or CEOs or Presidents of the U.S.
The general perception seems to be that Jackie Robinson would bemoan the relative lack of black ballplayers in major league baseball.
I'm not so sure.
I don't think Robinson's vision was so myopic.
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