African-American Jockeys | Kentucky Life | KET

[@nickelz999]

Thank you for sharing

[@FT000]

Never a mention during the Kentucky Derby television coverage of this, shame on you Amerika(Esau).

[@flame-sky7148]

The revolution will not be televised.

[@terry7375]

Racism in the media and the industry

[@ronniebishop2496]

I did a tv show years ago and we had a race horse on the set. Fuel To Spare. The sweetest horse in the world, is how I introduced him. We also had a yard jockey hitchhiking post, and he was black, because all the jockeys back then were black!!!, but the executive producer ( the man with the money) said I had to paint him white! So I did!

[@ronniebishop2496]

In order to avoid ignorance and confusion from groups we just painted him.

[@esseen100]

That first speaker about jockeys, had a tone of making "concessions" much like white old west enthusiasts have about black cowboys and marshals like Bass Reeves. At 4:52 there's a gravestone named for a rider named Cassius Clay Tankersly. Any relation to Muhammad Ali (Ne Cassius Clay?)

[@paulatiredofthisshit]

He was named after his father, who was named after Cassius Marcellus Clay, an abolitionist.

[@ronniebishop2496]

Well I just got my True West magazine and guess who’s on the cover. Bass Reeves. Of course being raised in Oklahoma, I was aware of a lot of outlaws and Indians etc.

[@ronniebishop2496]

From now on most of our history will also be Painted over.

[@sherrifortson6810]

And now??!!???

[@nadeena]

I came here after watching NOPE & viewing Nate Young’s installations

[@noisyguest5249]

I came here after reading Steel Ball Run

[@mr.harper4028]

KZbin has shed a light on all the hidden history of the ados community in America......

[@terry7375]

Racism in. The sport still exists

[@spirituallifecoachinginsti7207]

HIDDEN BIG TIME HISTORY....THAT BLACKS MADE THE SPORT HUGE......RODE FOR PEANUTS......!!!

[@richardbranton7396]

Nope ,they didn't ride for peanuts ,they where getting paid big money and that was the problem that is why they where pushed out ,literally ,by the white jocks .