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I go by what Morgan Freeman said in that one famous interview. That was an all time great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTghjUxY_c

He's 100,000% right. He even catches a white Jew off guard. That's level 10. It's AMERICAN history. Yes there was slavery, but we don't need to celebrate blacks over it. Not a living soul participated that is alive today. Move on. When I saw that clip Morgan Freeman immediately moved into the top 5-10 actors on my list.

More whites are dying from things like drug overdoses than blacks per capita. They shoot each other, which is controllable and not an addiction. We get no month. Nor do I want one.

Hollywood slavery is bull shit. They got free housing and food as slaves. This whipping and that shit is overplayed. What a horrible life not having to provide. Blacks have been destroyed by their own racism. I bust my ass, pay $71k in federal taxes and you get food stamps and section 8 housing. Get bent. Work. I'm the slave now that pays to feed and house you. Take your fucking month and die.

I am a serious card collector. Not a huge dollar amount guy, but I have stuff I like. I went to my first Dodgers game at 7 years old in the late 70’s and have been hooked since. My grandfather bought me my first packs of cards in 1980 and I was a collector on and off until I became gravely ill over a decade ago, could really do much, and got back into card collecting which continued on after I recovered.

This is one of my favorites..1956 Jackie Robinson. Low grade card, but to me it just is the nature of and the character of having vintage cards.

Think about it. Kids all over the nation collecting cards of a black man in 1950’s America. Supposedly the height of racism yet a sport and a card company, both of which continue today, bigger and stronger than ever, had the audacity to feature a black man on its product.

Roy Campanella is mentioned in the movie 42 as Branch Rickey, GM for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the late 1940’s(portrayed by Harrison Ford), contemplates which Negro League player can withstand the onslaught of racism they are certain to receive. Campanella is dismissed by Rickey as too soft. So he arrives a few years after Robinson. And sets the league on fire. 3 MVPs in less than a decade. A Brooklyn Dodgers team that goes to the World Series multiple times, winning once. His career only cut short by a car accident that left him permanently in a wheel chair. 100,000 people would show up the year after at the Colliseum in Los Angeles when the Dodgers moved there. To celebrate the career of a black man. In 1950’s America.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

I am a serious card collector. Not a huge dollar amount guy, but I have stuff I like. I went to my first Dodgers game at 7 years old in the late 70’s and have been hooked since. My grandfather bought me my first packs of cards in 1980 and I was a collector on and off until I became gravely ill over a decade ago, could really do much, and got back into card collecting which continued on after I recovered.

Derailing, so ignore if you don't want to read further.

I went to the last Chicago White Sox game in the old Comiskey park. Not a massive baseball fan but a top 3 event with my dad when he wasn't an ass hole. Right field first row. I loved that stadium as a kid. Saw Ron Kittle blast one over the roof and now my buddy owns his dinning room table.

If you're not a sports fan or not from Chicago, you'd be crying laughing about this. I'm too young, and maybe it wouldn't be interesting, but I kind of want to write or start writing an autobiography.

FTMM, are you better health wise now? Don't have to tell, but alway interested in personal experiences. I trust personal experiences more than doctors even if they were treated by a doctor. My gall bladder was a disaster of shit. So personal experience carries more weight with me.

A black man. Again on a card. With three white teammates. All are in the baseball hall of fame except Furillo who was a multi time all star. 1957. And kids all over the country saw and collected this card.

Here we are, 7 decades later. Sure there is racism. There always will be and the people who argue that there should be no racism are borderline lunatics. But largely, America accepted black people. By the time I was a kid in the 1980’s, it was adults impressing MLK’s message upon me. Like Wookie, my nephew is black(half Hispanic half black…it’s my wife’s sisters kid). I am his godfather, I love him, and want the best for him. His dad is not the stereotype of a black father in any way.

The point of all this is that the media hyped narrative is exactly that…hype. Wonder why there’s no more blm protests? It’s because George Soros doesn’t need them. It was fake. All of it. Only a co-op by leftist groups sowing dissension in the US. I got the message as a small child 40 years ago from my parents, social studies courses, and my love of baseball and its history. Heck my favorite card as a kid was also my most valuable at the time…Rickey Henderson 1980 Topps rookie…dude wasn’t a black man to me but more like Superman.

That’s some black history. The fact that no one is teaching this is horrible because that’s the real story of black people in the US…at least post WW2. That moron millenials don’t know that…that’s their own deficiencies.

Ron Kittle was the entire impetus for buying the 1983 Topps traded set. He was fire as a rookie. Eventually to be overtaken in that set by Daryl Strawberry.

Yeah I’m ok. I had a late stage cancer diagnosis when I was 37. I was off work for several months at a time for the better part of 3 years. Complete cure though I have some long term side effects.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Yeah I’m ok. I had a late stage cancer diagnosis when I was 37. I was off work for several months at a time for the better part of 3 years. Complete cure though I have some long term side effects.

While that experience sucks, and scares me at 41, good to hear it's not too bad now. Cancer is a bitch and you made it through.

Funny though the 1983 Tops set was the year I was born. Was never a card guy, but enjoy the hobby. I still have some but probably not worth anything. Who knows though. Loved baseball until middle school. Track got me. 3 Time all state athlete in that realm. So no baseball. Glad because my arm would be destroyed.

The 1983 Topps set is legend with 3 HOF rookie cards(Sandberg, Boggs, and Gwynn). You are right that most of the stuff you likely collected isn’t worth much. Little post 1985 until the late 90’s is as it was overproduced. There’s some exceptions for very high grade rookie cards and certain football, hockey, and especially basketball cards. For baseball it’s the 1989 Griffey Jr upper deck Rookie and some other stuff. For basketball, the 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan is out of this universe. A few thousand to hundreds of thousands depending on condition.

I collect everything so it means for every really nice card, I have a Scrooge mcduck size vault of cards that are worth pennies at best.