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President Obama Sings Amazing Grace at Clementa Pickney Funeral

Posted by hotdogla on June 26, 2015

Wow what an intense day, seriously I have been in tears today, It’s been bittersweet. while the SCOTUS ruling made the LGBTQ community throw a rainbow party (well deserved) the funeral of Clementa Pickney one of the nine people who were killed last week was laid to rest today.

President Obama gave one of the best speeches in American History and then broke out into a soulful rendition of Amazing Grace. This was Amazing.

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Black History Month: Jack Roosevelt Robinson is better known as Jackie Robinson, he attended Pasadena City College and went on to UCLA where he became the school’s first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football & track. He was one of only four black players on the UCLA team, this was considered an integrated team. In 1942 he was drafted and assigned to a segregated Army unit at Fort Riley, Kansas. After much protest he and several other qualified black men were accepted into Officer Candidate School. After his commission as second lieutenant he joined the 761st Black Panther Tank Batallion. On July 6, 1944 Robinson boarded an Army bus where the bus driver ordered him and a fellow officer’s wife to the back of the bus and Robinson refused. The bus driver called police and Robinson was arrested and charged with multiple offenses including public drunkenness even though Robinson did not drink. This ended his military career. He went on to play major league baseball marking the end of segregation in the sport; known as the baseball color line. He played for only 10 seasons all of them for the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6 World Series, and he played in all 6. He ensured so much specially because he called out the racism in baseball specifically the New York Yankees. The city of Pasadena in 1997 erected a 9ft bronze sculpture across from the main entrance of City Hall. Brookside Park next to the Rose Bowl features the a baseball diamond named after him, and the city operates the Jackie Robinson Center a community outreach that provides healthcare. There is so much more to Jackie that I could ever write on here, so I would invite you to invite yourself to become aware of these stories, facts, figures and continue to share them with your fiends,your family and anyone who is willing to listen. Many times I hear the “east coast” types say LA has no culture, or history and I would like to say fuck you,yes we do,it just makes you uncomfortable to own it. Thank you for reading. #shareblackhistory#blackhistorymonth#pasadena#CaliforniaHistory#HiddenFigures#JackieRobinson#UCLA#PasadenaCityCollege#blackexcellence#PCC#Baseball#Doyers#Dodgers

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