Full Reggie Jackson answer to Arod's question about returning to Rickwood Field.

[@davefetch6064]

Props to the producers and players for shutting up and letting Reggie cook. Powerful stuff.

[@seguincougar73]

And props to the person who posted the uncensored version of this. That man has the right to say what he heard and what he was called…

[@davefetch6064]

@@seguincougar73 Absolutely.

[@cowboy0073]

@@seguincougar73exactly. Don’t sugarcoat it. This is the real history.

[@Mike1122.]

The history republicans want to erase.

[@hnc098]

💯. Everyone tuning in needs to heard what was said without it being cleaned up. Every other version I saw was bleeped out.

[@marvinpues]

I just don't think enough people today appreciate how awful his experience was, as an elite athlete. I know I didn't and can't really know what it was like, but when he recounted this experience it's like the memory was so deep and hurtful it took him back to the time it was happening. Thank you Reggie for your ability to sit and recount what happened, and remind me of exactly how terrible (and good) humans can be.

[@davidoceans5604]

Marvin, if they treated him like that and he was an elite player, just imagine how they treated normal everyday black people in this country.

[@donaldeversdyk879]

The "N" word is the most disgusting word on the planet and the way Reggie uses it shows exactly how it was used in the past. This is one of baseball's GREATEST stories and it is so nice that it is no censored. The way Reggie tells the story you can feel exactly how he did. Amazing it took so long to hear this story. Reggie is 100% a Class Act!!

[@superzero4250]

Amazing how people today still use that WORD as a term of affection and endearment… Certain celebrities feel they get a pass because of who they are, not realizing they are perpetuating a stigma as they subtly advocate a form of self oppression… 🤔

[@hnc098]

@@superzero4250agree 100%. Today’s rap musicians never had the word used against them the way Reggie and that generation had it weaponized against them. So while rappers get a free pass in using the word casually because they are black, it is a word that should be retired and never used by anyone except describing history.

[@aleccash2197]

Imagine being person who isn’t black, trying to tell black people how to use the word that was a weapon of oppression against them for hundreds of years.

[@flame-sky7148]

Tell your story Reggie, perfect timing!!! Not at the Hall of Fame, but in Alabama where you played and went through that crap.

[@albertcornett7408]

Now the right is screaming Reggie is teaching CRT. Silence him.

[@resah18]

It's the Black men hugging him at the end and telling Reggie Jackson that they love him that does it for me!

[@JBAEZ21]

@@chamowinky Arod is Dominican, we have strong African genes

[@davidoceans5604]

The same exact thing happened to Jackie Robinson , he had to sleep on the player's bus and use the bathroom at the Gas Station ⛽️ after Jackie Robinson served the military 🪖 he had to sit on the back of the bus, that's why he never came out of the Dugout for the National Anthem 🇺🇸

[@TheBatugan77]

Except he did.

[@diamondprince7554]

This is a shame. He's younger than my grandmother.

[@CraigBanzaf]

I had the privelege to watch Reggie, Lou Piniella and Graig Nettles in the '78 playoffsin Yankee Stadium when I was 10 years old, since that day I have been a Yankee fan and will always be, thru wins and losses. Thanks Mom and Dad

[@12yearssober]

Truth is the only thing ever censored

[@TheBatugan77]

Reggie's Dad was Martinez Jackson, a former Negro Leaguer and businessman in Pennsylvania. Google him. Interesting guy. Black & Puerto Rican. Reggie catches the subject from several angles.

[@stevenharrison8122]

I want to thank you for paving the way for others and remaining so strong. Remain strong.

[@ez4u2shopllc8]

People do not give you the real stories of what people have endured and still endure right to this day! We must do better as human beings that occupy this earth!!!!

[@michaelt.1451]

I love Reggie.

[@gregbattles4742]

No reason for us to say america was ever great. and we sure don't want to go back.this is what black pride is. Not clearnce Thomas.

[@LennyCarlo]

Always loved Reggie as a lifelong Mets fan I’ll never forgive them for passing on Reggie Jackson for Steve chilcott 😢

[@brownsugar2559]

All I ever heard about Reggie Jackson and Jackie Robinson was how great players they were, but to hear that they went through this cuts. I saw the movie 42 with Chadwick Boseman and just to see how a white person can treat and disrespect a man/woman for the color of their skin, which that person didn't pick, GOD picked is disgusting. It sickens me.

[@josephwashington4086]

The White Man doesn't like when you show his face... That's him for sure... If it's not personally you then ok but you know MANY family and friends that are exactly 💯 that individual. Respect Mr October!

[@terrenceliburd8655]

Reggie Jackson needed to talk about how when Curt Flood came to him for help during his reserve clause case he was like i would like ti help you but it's dont know what would happen to me if i did

[@BillBraz-b9o]

True only Jackie Robinson and a few old timers stood alongside curt. I personally think curts screwup in 68 world series probably contributed to Cardinals wanting to trade him to Philly.

[@hnc098]

I hear you. But civil rights more important than economic right. The former is given by god, the latter was a legal toss up based on how a court chooses to rule.

[@darreleddings5901]

GIVE LARRY DOBY HIS OWN DAY!

[@phyllisthomas2580]

He spoke the truth. Thanks for not cutting or editing his words.

[@adamgray3968]

These are the stories that need to be told. Really powerful to hear and I’m glad Reggie told it and everyone else understood to let him speak

[@mikespires6091]

Amazing interview. Reggie is truly a man of strength.

[@maureencora1]

2024 MAGA History Lesson About 1963, God Bless Him.

[@TheBatugan77]

This wasn't about MAGA, ignoremus. It was about Dixiekkkrats. George Wallace. Lester Maddox. Robert Byrd. And the rest of Biden's buddies.

[@bigdaddy3621]

This is why people have to shout BLACK LIVES MATTER

[@markaddison4642]

Hard pass. Shout out to Freedman descendants aka FBA'S. Reparations heals.

[@TheBatugan77]

All lives matter. Jackson's. Rudi's. McNamara's. All of them.

[@ChristopherMHeaps]

@@markaddison4642BLACK LIVES MATTER

[@uuu817]

All lives matter!

[@wbazile]

And the story was told on Fox which has the audience that needs to hear it the most. Thanks Reggie!

[@jjboys215]

It's what they're voting to go back to

[@uuu817]

You people are as delusional as your comments! Talks about Fox as if liberals aren’t the most inconsiderate, non-inclusive people on this planet..

[@illiel2879]

Trillion Likes!!!

[@Mike1122.]

He’s not lying, my dad was from Mississippi and he went to the army get out of there due to the racism.

[@JamesAvila-xu7ds]

I bet it’s bad like that in the Deep South

[@nofishtoday]

And that’s what Reggie Jackson experienced. Reggie Jackson. Superstar. Imagine the treatment of a regular person. Horrible. May it never happen again

[@charliejames7916]

thank you reggie brought me back to that time period;my wife from birmingham arrested protesting for equal rights during bull connor time.there are millions of black stories about racism, thank you reggie

[@willyjakkz]

That was absolutely DEEP and not the answer that was expected by any of them. Thank you to the Great Reggie Jackson for your contributions to us and to baseball! 🙏🙏🙏

[@aesr.1964]

Unapologetically FBA. Truth!

Reggie Jackson is Puerto Rican. Tell Tariq Nasheed that!

[@aesr.1964]

Nah. His dad is a Puerto Rican AND FBA! His mom’s is FBA. Loly

[@RafaelSoltren]

Those southern democrats are the worse

[@robertcammon5969]

Where were all the sportswriters when all this was happening??? Yet they get to hold the keys to the Hall of Fame. None of them mention this, not even in their waning years in reflection.

[@SaundersE5]

Terrible thing to dog a person because of their race. Just awful.

[@anthonygibson5144]

It takes alot and a real men to go tho what Reggie went tho… 🙏🏿

[@projectcontractors]

"You know, I'm starting to run out of white guilt." ~Bill Burr

[@my.0224]

You won’t. Too many years of harm done by your ancestors.

[@gbee6677]

Well Horrible People Hate Hearing Horrible Truths

[@Kwasimitsu]

Stop worrying about guilt and start worrying about fixing the problems. That’s the part the guilty don’t want to discuss, just cry about how hard it is feeling guilty lol.

[@danr154]

I just focus on the present and ignore everything else I will not wear the sins of the past or of anyone who isnt me. Everyone can try all they want to blame me by association and I simply never listen to them. I acknowledge the wrongs of the past but as long as you or myself arent doing those things to perpetuate harm moving forward you or me dont need to worry about any of this crap. Just focus on being kind and honest and even keeled to everyone and if anyone expects an more than that, thats on them.

[@gabrielhutchinson4708]

Many black people today use the N word when conversing among themselves, it seems. It's a dichotomy that it is forbidden in the context of what the black athlete faced or suffered under the awful scrutiny of prejudice in old times, though among the African race today it's just playful banter when one of their own spins it by speaking it. If such a word brought so much pain as a distasteful reminder of a segregated society, then it shouldn't be spoken. Otherwise, it's difficult to get on the "sympathy train."

[@taylor6466]

I disagree. Giving a word the Voldemort treatment gives it more power and is counterproductive. Changing the context and meaning of a word can give the oppressed power over the word. That being said, it's slang use, its significance in pop culture, who can use it, when it can be used, etc. remains precarious

[@imandan1966]

Stop posting BS

[@Mike-di3mo]

​@@taylor6466That word should not be used, it gives power to no one. People who use that word likely have no clue about their history.

[@taylor6466]

@@Mike-di3mo I meant more about them bleeping out Reggie Jackson

[@TheBatugan77]

​@@imandan1966 I'll post whatever the fk I want, Remus.