Once again Louis gets no credit.

[Dempsey1238]

With Obama's win, the news ran a mini black history of the steps taking.

When they get to Sports, they mention Jackie Robinson breaking the color bar. But No Joe Louis??

[Loewe]

With Obama's win, the news ran a mini black history of the steps taking.

When they get to Sports, they mention Jackie Robinson breaking the color bar. But No Joe Louis??

If I were American I would write a letter or something to the TV station that´s unforgivable.

[McGrain]

Strange how quickly people forget.

[teeto]

Madness

[SteveO]

Did they mention Jack Johnson breaking the color line?

[Dempsey1238]

No Johnson either.

[Mega Lamps]

No Johnson, Louis, or Ali? Thats just not right.

[Mendoza]

With Obama's win, the news ran a mini black history of the steps taking.

When they get to Sports, they mention Jackie Robinson breaking the color bar. But No Joe Louis??

The press doesn't like boxing. While Robinson broke the color line in baseball, boxing and horse racing did in 50 years sooner, and football also had black players and even a black coach in before Jackie Robinson.

[werety]

Joe Louis probably did more than any other athlete to help break the color line. That really is a shame.

[OBCboxer]

It's a shame.

[rekcutnevets]

Boxing is no longer a main stream sport in the US. Those pieces are put together by people using the first thing that comes to mind.

[FromWithin]

Today on French-Canadian TV RDI a black writer read an open letter he wrote where he mentioned Ali and didn't mention Jackie Robinson. In Quebec when you say the word Joe Louis that's the picture people have in their head
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[albinored]

on one network..don't remember which.... when the cameras showed harlem...the voice over said trhe only time he could recall a crowd anything like this was when joe louis won the heavy weight title..and added that louis was one of the historic figures who halped make the path to the presidency possible.

[fists of fury]

It pisses me off intensly. Maintream sport or otherwise, history is history and rewriting it (or simply not knowing it in the first place) is nothing short of disgusting.

If anyone reads the Wiki page on Detroit, under the sports sub-heading Louis is barely given a mention. It's mentioned almost in passing that he won the heavyweight title yet the article blabs on about Detroit's sports teams, none of which can measure up to Joe in any way, shape or form.

Something needs to be done about this blatant disrespect.

[young griffo]

What sport did Jackie Robinson play?
Was it baseball?
Means absolutely fuck all in Australia,whereas guys like Louis and Johnson are still remembered as iconic sporting African-Americans alongside guys like Ali,Owens and John Carlos and Tommie Smith.

[Mohak]

What sport did Jackie Robinson play?
Was it baseball?


Baseball, aka Super Cricket.



I guess mainstream society really is turning away from boxing if they don't mention Louis or Johnson.

[Dempsey1238]

Oprah at least mention it on her show lol. So I sort of happy about that. But the news, Arrrr.

[janitor]

Joe Louis as others have said did more than any other black athlete in history to bring down the colour bar. He was also the first black athlete to gain general aceptance among the white community.

Today after the election of Barack Obama as the first black president, in large part by white America, he is more relevant than ever.

[mr. magoo]

Baseball is the preferred American past time over just about any other sport in our country. Therfore, its no great surprise that an African American athlete would receive greater praise for being the first in this realm over boxing.

[Drew101]

It should be noted that one of the commentators on CNN did reference the Louis-Schmeling rematch in addition to Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier in baseball, but it seemed the exception rather than the rule.

[Drew101]

double. sorry.

[round15]

Nobody ever talks about strides Barbados Joe Walcott made in the early1900's as one of the first and dominant black champions.

No disrespect to Jackie Robinson for what he did with regards to the colour barrier in baseball. There were many great negro league players before him that never got the oppurtunity to play in the major leagues.

[OBCboxer]

Jackie Robinson was great in what he did but he was very overrated as a ballplayer. Joe Louis is arguably the greatest Heavyweight of All time and did a lot for the African American community.

[fists of fury]

Oprah at least mention it on her show lol. So I sort of happy about that. But the news, Arrrr.

She's gone up several notches in my estimation then.