Ken Covinsky

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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Loss of DEI Hurts Everyone: Farah Stockman, Ali Thomas, Ken Covinsky · 17 Apr 2025 podcast

about the timeliness of Jackie Robinson.

So some of you might have heard the story about how the Department of Defense took the Jackie Robinson page off its website.

So, you know, another thing that people often don't know about Jackie Robinson is that his activism encouraged

extended far outside of baseball.

So when Jackie, shortly after the U.S.

entered World War II, Jackie Robinson applied to enter officer candidate school and was rejected because of his race and fought to enter and eventually became a second lieutenant.

Another part of the Jackie Robinson story is when he was at Fort Hood, he was ordered to get to the back of a bus and refused.

and was charged and court-martialed and, thank God, found innocent.

So, you know, remembering, you know, that this was 10 years before Rosa Parks.

So just kind of the impact Jackie Robinson has had on our culture in so many ways and just the courage that he exercised.

And how

Well, you know, I actually I think we actually now have.

So this was actually a major call of Jackie Robinson so that Jackie Robinson had hoped to become a manager.

He left baseball and in his Hall of Fame speech, he called for the day where there would be black managers in baseball.

It was I think it wasn't the last World Series.

I think it was the 2023 World Series where Dusty Baker faced off as the manager of the Houston Astros against David Roberts.

So basically the two best managers in baseball and also the first time that, you know, two managers in baseball happened to be African-American in World Series.

Yes, I have a question for both of you.

And

And this sort of relates to a lot of the current discussion.

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