>> jackie robinson. >> reporter: period. >> period.robinson. >> reporter: washington himself played on the world series winning oakland as in 1974. for him, this is personal. >> someone had to be first, someone had to stand in the gap and take some unbelievable punishment and cruelty so that the next person may not have to endure as much. >> reporter: what would life have been like for jackie robinson at that time? >> i can't even begin to wrap my head around the weight that he muff must have had on his shoulders, not just himself personally, but all people of color. >> this had to be unbelievably painful. >>> there were times when it was very painful. particularly when you're being attacked and you can't respond. >> reporter: it's a beautiful -- >> our wedding day. >> reporter: that's your wedding day? >> yeah. >> reporter: she spoke with us in 2013. >> what we worried about, for instance, pitchers would throw at his head. i worried about him getting hurt. >> reporter: with good reason. he routinely received death threats. >> i felt l

and you realize when jackie robinson got to play baseball, it destroyed the negro league, some of thethat were making real capital at the time. >> trevor: right. equity at the end of the day. >> yeah, yeah, it's like-- . >> trevor: having a stake in your own future. >> having a real stake in your own future, yeah, the pride of the civil right movement was great but don't get them confused with like real things. the things we got were, you know, we deserve. >> trevor: right. it is not, yeah, st not a gift and it is not a privilege. >> it is not a privilege to be treatedly, when you release a hostage trk is not like you don't have a party stvment just like oh, good, like i'm glad that shit's over. >> trevor: right. >> you know. and that's, you know, black people, are like basically hostages in our own land. yeah, look at us. chris rock and trevor noah! breaking it down. >> trevor: i feel like in some ways the journey america has been on now is not dissimilar to the journey you have been over the past maybe year and a half where it's been an stra dream journey of intro speks and also sel

not just football but sports recognize the transactional benefit of having a black ashley from jackie robinson playing baseball to mohammed ali boxing for america and the olympics they recognize and that doesn't mean they're not racially biased they recognize the transactional benefit of having a black sportsman which would give them gold medals give them money because actually rob is going to hit a home run now that's obvious you say bolt is going to beat anybody 100 meters mike tyson is going to knock you out however what is the transactional benefit of having a black say into intention a man who can be a football manager now to change the perception of his worth nothing's going to change. coming up after the break alex is joined by the editor of black history month 2020 catherine ross joined us today. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. looking at the 1st because you all know russia but also up most of us have got to score with a cyclone things on their way to set their child on the national

not just football but sports recognize the transactional benefit of having a black ashley from jackie robinson playing baseball to mohammed ali boxing for america and the olympics they recognize and that doesn't mean they're not racially biased they recognize the transactional benefit of having a black sportsman which will give them gold medals give them money because actually rob is going to hit a home run now that's obvious you say bolt is going to beat anybody want to meet as mike tyson is going to knock you out however what is the transactional benefit of having a black same type intention a man who can be a football manager now to change the perception of his worth nothing's going to change. coming up after the break alex is joined by the editor of black history month 2020 katherine ross joining us in. l.a. look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. must obey the orders given it by human beings except we're such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification we should be very careful about official intelligence at the point of use the. tran

jackie robinson had been a longtime republican and martin luther king senior had been a longtime republican in the 60s it seemed like the republican party seem to bobble the ball with these important voters. i think that's her history that we have to talk about as well. do you see those mistakes in the republican party and do you believe that the party is nothing like that today? >> guest: the republican party is not perfect but i would say the reason they lost the black vote wasn't necessarily because of their shortcomings but more of the democrats offered free stuff. the first time you see the democrats breaking with the party is with the fdr and the new deal. don't quote me but sometime in the 1930s was the first time they overwhelmingly voted to make sure fdr got them was promising handouts and by every metric economists have examined the new deal backwards and they said it made the depression last five years longer than it need to because the economy was not allowed to correct itself. you fast-forward obviously with lyndon baines johnson and him giving that speech at howard saint black

could jackie robinson had been a republican, martin luther king senior had been a longtime republican but in the 60s it seemed the republican party seemed to bobble the ball with these important voters. i think that is our history that we have to talk about as well. we see those in the republican party and do you believe that the party is nothing like that today? >> the republican party isn't perfect, but the reason that they lost wasn't necessarily because of the shortcomings but more the democrats offered. the first time you see them is with the new deal, fdr and the new deal. lyndon baines johnson gave that speech and now the government has to give quality plus benefits and the benefits is welfare so what we are seeing it's the strategy has kind of remained in the democratic party and realizing that they offer handouts without realizing the fine print. a really interesting point i took the answer to that is 1930. the government decided to get involved in issues of federal minimum wage which black americans couldn't complete and it was done because the democratic racists in congress

so if he brought jackie robinson in, chandler was with it. wallace's supporters did not want chandler on the ticket because of that. he was out of kentucky. >> do you remember your last conversation with daughter, peggy wallace kennedy, joining us from inside the mansion. mrs. kennedy, you have been listening to our conversation for the last hour and a half. what have you heard? >> well, i have heard a lot about my father. >> i'm sorry. we are not able to hear peggy wallace kennedy at this moment. we will in just a moment. mrs. kennedy? >> yes. >> okay. go ahead. now, we can hear you. >> i have heard a lot about my father and i've enjoyed reminiscing a little bit. my father, to me, in my heart, he was not a racist. he was a politician. he is the man that i want to remember and that i want my children to remember is that this is a man that in his later years, he reached out for forgiveness and he received that forgiveness. >> do you think that he did have some racist tendencies in the'60s? in my heart, i don't think that. i think he was just a

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