I've liked this movie from the moment when Pee Wee Reese, the white captain of the Dodgers' No. 1 player, put his arm around the shoulder of the team's No. 42 black player Jackie Robinson.
In his hometown of Cincinnati, where racism is particularly prevalent, Pee Wee is an influential sports star who is the captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the MLB (Professional Baseball League).
In 1947, Dodgers owner Branch Rickey under pressure signed the black player Jackie Robinson. This is the first black player in Major League Baseball history. After the start of the season, although Jackie tried to be an excellent player on the court and an elegant gentleman off the court as required by the team owner, the gossip and the rumors, you can bear it, if you can't bear it, you have to swallow it. Not to be a person who has the courage not to fight back, but to be a person who has the courage not to fight back. However, most of the audience and the media do not pay much attention to his excellence, but only pay attention to his skin color.
The court is not a pure arena, and even the referee will deliberately make a penalty against him. In the face of the opponent's endless trash talk, Jackie was also unbearable, collapsed and cried in the unmanned player channel, smashing the bat angrily.
The white teammates of the Dodgers began to "welcome" Jackie with a joint petition to expel Jackie at the beginning of the season. But as the season progressed, the teammates who were fighting side by side began to be changed by Jackie's patience. There were more and more greetings in the locker room, and he would be upset on the court. After the game, they began to bathe together like normal teammates. The club staff who witnessed this happened unknowingly began to stand on Jackie's side. As the boss Branch Rickey explained: sympathy, sympathy, the original meaning of Greek is sufferer, suffer. Jackie's experience made everyone sympathize.
Empathy is the beginning of changing ideas. To popularize common sense as a human, we must first understand human nature. However, many things that now seem to be common sense, such as the elimination of racial discrimination, have been so absurdly prevalent in history.
In 1947, shortly after the end of World War II, the civil rights movement in the United States was still in its infancy. The law has long eliminated institutional discrimination against blacks, but the conceptual and cultural discrimination against blacks remains untouched.
Looking at today, more than 60 years later, Jackie Robinson is already a member of the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame. In order to show respect to him, he even retired his No. 42 jersey in the league. One day every year, all professional players wear 42. No. jersey to pay tribute. Even though a small number of racists still exist, the mainstream concept of the masses has been completely reversed.
What happened in this process is worthy of every educator's recognition and reflection, because education is a career dedicated to making people's ideas more complete.
We have to keep asking: How many roads must a person walk to become a complete person? We also need to discover the reality around us: how many concepts in line with universal values are still ignored by us? In some ways, the nationalists in China are similar to the racists in the United States. This phenomenon is of course also the result of some kind of "education", and another kind of education is needed to change it.
We must first forgive the mainstream public, because they just don't know what they are doing. Then, maybe you can do something like Pee Wee Reese.
When the Dodgers went to Cincinnati to play away games, Pee Wee of Cincinnati, the captain of the Dodgers, received a threatening letter before the game. The letter threatened him that if the black Jackie played, then he would pay the price. He had never been so frightened before and hurriedly found the team owner Rickey, who knew that Rickey took out a thick stack of letters from the drawer-all of which were the intimidation Jackie Robinson received from Cincinnati.
When the game was warming up, Jackie drew boos, verbal abuse and personal attacks from the audience without any suspense.
Pee Wee walked up to Jackie, in front of his hometown elders, took Jackie's shoulders in an unprecedented way, and said to him in the consternation and anger of the audience:
"Don't care about these voices. I want to thank you, Jackie, my family is sitting there, and today I want to let them know who I am. Maybe tomorrow our team will wear the No. 42 jersey, so they won't be able to tell who it is. At
this time, there was a pair of father and son in the stands. The 10-year-old child followed his father and the crowd around him a moment ago, shouting in an immature voice: "Nigger, we don't welcome you!" However, he saw this scene. He began to think.
Education happens at this moment.
As for Jackie's jersey number 42, one has to think of the ultimate answer about life, the universe, and anything in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". If this answer points to a more complete human concept and lifestyle, Jackie's story can indeed be glimpsed.
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