By Ed Rice, Special to the Bangor Daily News He was a college baseball player so legendary in his time that he was inducted into his school’s athletic hall of fame, even though he only attended two years. Then he broke a color barrier and became the first man of his race to play professional baseball. Then he became a professional baseball star, in spite of being subjected to the vilest of racial prejudice and violations of his civil rights from fellow players, fans and the press. Without … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2015
Skowhegan ‘Indian Pride’ website continues to denigrate Native Americans
By Ed Rice (Centralmaine.com, Nov. 13, 2015) Recent use of an alcohol reference is particularly harmful, considering how white people used it to control the native peoples. Since the French, the British and colonial Americans invaded North America, the use of alcohol helped white people to subjugate Native Americans in all manner of nefarious ways and made the indigenous peoples subservient to their respective wills. They cheated them in basic trades for furs and goods, stole lands from … [Read more...]