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1. #Wayne watson somewhere in the world tonight movie#
2. #Wayne watson somewhere in the world tonight skin#

Be slow to speak and slow to anger” (James 1:19) – these are good words to live by. Rather than take in, ponder, pray, then act, we pull the trigger quickly and react without much thought to the consequences. We’re a country of reactors – myself included. Sometimes, it takes the bigger person to “take it”. He witnessed, first hand, the disgraceful treatment the young man suffered and felt, and that by bringing Jackie Robinson to the big leagues, the joy of the game he loved was coming back to life.Īnd all because he found a man that had the guts to take it. Branch Rickey went on to tell the story of how the joy of the game was stolen from him when he played in college with a black player.

#Wayne watson somewhere in the world tonight movie#

And in one of the movie scenes, Jackie Robinson asked, “Mr. I was a boy among men.īranch Rickey loved baseball, too. I knew from the first time I looked at the other players on the college field, that it just wasn’t gonna happen. I’ve told this story before, but the one childhood dream that ended with high school was to be a major league baseball player. I’ll never know the feelings of the ones that lit the fire or the ones for which the message was intended.

I don’t have to think about it for very long to be insulted, angry and saddened (and anything else I might be leaving out) by the thought of the cross – the symbol of my Savior’s sacrifice – being used to further such a cause. To this day, and I’m really not interested in much further education on this topic, I can’t figure out the correlation of a burning cross and white supremacy. There was a cross burning taking place in front of the high school that was right across the street from our house. My first exposure to a small taste of the fear that some residents of my hometown must have lived with came one night as I watched the reflection of flames bouncing off the bedroom walls. I never heard either one of them utter derogatory slurs. My parents were kind people – kind to most everyone, so I guess some of that must have rubbed off on me. But know this, I’m honestly leaving room for the possibility of selective memory.

#Wayne watson somewhere in the world tonight skin#

I don’t want to grade my own paper too high but, honestly as far as I can recall, I never gave much thought to the differences between people with white skin and those with black skin – just different pigmentations as far as I knew. The “whites only” restroom signs with the same sign over the drinking fountain. A lot of things portrayed in the movie “42” were in my face every day. I grew up in the ‘60s in a deep-south small town. I don’t think a lot of them (and a lot of us) are really aware of what it’s taken to get where we are. It’s fascinating, too and it would be great if kids of all ages and all races would read this. I loved the movie so much that I bought a book on Branch Rickey’s life. He found that man in Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Rickey, a staunch conservative, passionate abolitionist and devoted Methodist, felt it was one of his higher purposes in life to “put a black man in baseball”.īut he had to find the right man – a man that “had the guts NOT to fight back”. Eight and a half years before Rosa Parks boarded the bus in December of 1955, Jackie Robinson began his journey into the world of, what was then, an all white-man’s game. Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner, Branch Rickey, did a lot to begin a major culture shift in America. I highly recommend it and in my opinion, it’s one of the better baseball stories ever told. Last weekend, we went to see the new movie on the life of Jackie Robinson.