Once again Louis gets no credit.

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  1. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    With Obama's win, the news ran a mini black history of the steps taking.

    When they get to Sports, they mention Jackie Robinson breaking the color bar. But No Joe Louis??
     
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  2. Loewe

    Loewe internet hero Full Member

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    If I were American I would write a letter or something to the TV station that´s unforgivable.
     
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  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Strange how quickly people forget.
     
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  4. teeto

    teeto Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Madness
     
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  5. SteveO

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    Did they mention Jack Johnson breaking the color line?
     
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  6. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    No Johnson either.
     
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  7. Mega Lamps

    Mega Lamps Well-Known Member Full Member

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    No Johnson, Louis, or Ali? Thats just not right.
     
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  8. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. banned Full Member

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    The press doesn't like boxing. While Robinson broke the color line in baseball, boxing and horse racing did in 50 years sooner, and football also had black players and even a black coach in before Jackie Robinson.
     
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  9. werety

    werety Active Member Full Member

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    Joe Louis probably did more than any other athlete to help break the color line. That really is a shame.
     
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  10. OBCboxer

    OBCboxer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's a shame.
     
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  11. rekcutnevets

    rekcutnevets Black Sash Full Member

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    Boxing is no longer a main stream sport in the US. Those pieces are put together by people using the first thing that comes to mind.
     
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  12. FromWithin

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    Today on French-Canadian TV RDI a black writer read an open letter he wrote where he mentioned Ali and didn't mention Jackie Robinson. In Quebec when you say the word Joe Louis that's the picture people have in their head
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  13. albinored

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    on one network..don't remember which.... when the cameras showed harlem...the voice over said trhe only time he could recall a crowd anything like this was when joe louis won the heavy weight title..and added that louis was one of the historic figures who halped make the path to the presidency possible.
     
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  14. fists of fury

    fists of fury Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It pisses me off intensly. Maintream sport or otherwise, history is history and rewriting it (or simply not knowing it in the first place) is nothing short of disgusting.

    If anyone reads the Wiki page on Detroit, under the sports sub-heading Louis is barely given a mention. It's mentioned almost in passing that he won the heavyweight title yet the article blabs on about Detroit's sports teams, none of which can measure up to Joe in any way, shape or form.

    Something needs to be done about this blatant disrespect.
     
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  15. young griffo

    young griffo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What sport did Jackie Robinson play?
    Was it baseball?
    Means absolutely **** all in Australia,whereas guys like Louis and Johnson are still remembered as iconic sporting African-Americans alongside guys like Ali,Owens and John Carlos and Tommie Smith.
     
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