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Rachel Robinson at 100 Deserves Her Own Thread

G-Fafif
Jul 19 2022 01:34 PM

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G-Fafif
Jul 19 2022 01:37 PM
Re: Rachel Robinson at 100 Deserves Her Own Thread

Dave Zirin:


Rachel Robinson is living history and a national treasure. She is also a link to a time of white supremacist terror backed by the legal system. This was an era too many of us naively believed was in the dustbin of history. But if we need to fight the wars of the twentieth century again in the twenty-first, as the U.S. Supreme Court stands poised to repeal decades of progress, we have examples of the kind of courage it will take to steel ourselves going forward.



That courage is and has always been ample in the heart of Rachel Robinson.


https://progressive.org/magazine/rachel-robsinson-national-treasure-zirin/

Edgy MD
Jul 19 2022 01:47 PM
Re: Rachel Robinson at 100 Deserves Her Own Thread

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Frayed Knot
Jul 19 2022 02:24 PM
Re: Rachel Robinson at 100 Deserves Her Own Thread

Haven't seen her in a few years, but at 85 she looked about 65

Benjamin Grimm
Jul 19 2022 02:29 PM
Re: Rachel Robinson at 100 Deserves Her Own Thread

Any word on how she's doing?

Edgy MD
Jul 19 2022 02:53 PM
Re: Rachel Robinson at 100 Deserves Her Own Thread

This is her back in April.



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kcmets
Jul 19 2022 03:02 PM
Re: Rachel Robinson at 100 Deserves Her Own Thread

Happy birthday!


[BLOCKQUOTE]C'mon, Algebra. This is no place for you.[/BLOCKQUOTE]


This has been making me laugh.

nymr83
Jul 22 2022 08:46 PM
Re: Rachel Robinson at 100 Deserves Her Own Thread

looking good for 100! happy birthday and many more!