Don't feel like Bryant had the smoothest writing style with this.....but the way he (or simply just the facts) dropped parallels without being heavy handed was dope/crazy. Was surprised and/or disgusted multiple times thru out this.
- The overlapping interaction of some these figures really puts into perspective how the U.S. is not far removed from slavery & the Civil War.
- I'm not sure which is more infuriating / shameful.......the timid / both sidesness of white liberals during the heights of post-slavery racial violence and civil atrocities.......................or now, when we have all the history available to us and should "know better". Makes me see the phrase "so & so was ahead of their time" in a darker light.
- The idea to disrupt / suppress the (Black) American pipeline of young baseball players and structuring / hoping to build a Latin American pipeline with the idea of only letting em play on work visas & sending them back to Latin America in the off season is insane & despicable.
- Robinson's jersey retirement reminded me of Toussaint L'Ouverture having in the French yts to be honorable when he sailed over there to negotiate.
- The yt Christian Nationalist, hyper-capitalist, dark money group of Hilton/GM/Paramount/Reagan/Branch Rickey mirroring that of today's with Trump/Leo Leonnard/Theil/etc stunned me. A lot of this book lays out that Heritage damn near running an old playbook play for play smh.
- The volunteering to fight in Spanish Civil War that was a pre-cursor to WWII/the fight against Nazism, struck me. As did labor unions specifically taking actions/strikes nor for labor issues but social issues. Trying to think how much of that is going on today, I can think of a few cases.....usually up north like Minnesota in the summerof 2020. Seems like this part of history is usually surpressed as to not show how far we can really take things. And ask ourselves will we step up.
Just finished this--it was a good one. I got them 11/22/63 vibes from it. Plus, there was the Dark Tower connection which enhanced the story even more since I'm in the middle of that. Some of the end got a little convoluted, but the Epilogue more than made up for it. Longest Epilogue ever low-ley, lol.
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