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Originally Posted by Runscott
As a whole, Cobb was racist even back then. All the wishing in the world isn't going to change the past. You learn and move forward.
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You might be right that something he said or did could be considered racist today, but I don't think he would have been considered a racist in his time. In 1952 he's advocating for full integration of baseball 7 years before the last team integrated.
Just to dispel myths about the Cobb family and their political leanings too, here's a quote from Cobb's father while a Georgia State Senator in 1900. He's discussing voting against a bill that would tax African American properties to finance African American schools:
“Negroes had done, and were doing a good deal for the up building of the state, and I am in favor of allowing them money for education.”
That doesn't sound like a hardline Southern racist to me. This was 1900.