MLB: White-Washing And Diminishing Jackie Robinson's Career For 75 Years (Because Honestly Reporting On Robinson's Circumstances Would Mean Admitting To & Exposing Its Decades & Decades & Decades Of Grotesque Racism)

My April 15, 2019 post ("Everything You Know About Jackie Robinson Is Wrong") was prompted by my partner Laura's review of Arnold Rampersad's Jackie Robinson: A Biography.

When she began reading Rampersad's book, she feared "learning some awful truth about Branch Rickey, perhaps that he was not the hero that I thought him to be". But the Brooklyn Dodgers president and general manager "turned out to be even better than I knew". There was a kicker, though: "I was surprised to learn that almost everything I knew about Jackie Robinson's baseball career was wrong.