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I have been a fairly reliable customer of Amazon, but now I’m having second thoughts.
They recently delisted “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment.” The book is certainly timely since there has been endless commentary in print and on TV and radio on the subject of transgenderism.
As Roger Kimball, publisher of Encounter Books points out in an essay in The Wall Street Journal, Amazon has no problem offering Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” one of the most vicious anti-Semitic books ever written. “Mein Kampf” is considered by many to be the blueprint for the murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. A competitor of Amazon, Bookshop.org offers the equally troubling works of Louis Farrakhan, who proudly bills himself as the one who exposes the crimes of the Jews over the centuries.
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The Legacy of Jackie Robinson
BY RONALD E. HAWKINS JR.
Embassy Bucharest staff welcome guests at the gate to “Ebbets Field” in 2017.
U.S. Embassy Bucharest / Lucian Crusoveanu
David Robinson, son of Jackie Robinson, visits the American-supported athletic training center near Kampala in 2019.
U.S. Embassy Kampala / Christopher Luvega
America’s first African American to play in Major League Baseball was the legendary Jackie Robinson, number 42. Known for his athletic prowess, Robinson demonstrated even greater skill and valor off the field. The first Black man to integrate into an all-white sport in 1947, he faced callous treatment and threats to himself and his family. Yet almost a decade before the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appeared on the national stage, Robinson’s response to all the insults, threats and mistreatment was principled nonviolence. The deliberate choice of nonviolence not the lack of doing something, but the conscious act of choosing not to be v