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Article: The firing of Al Campanis won't solve one thing
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 29, 1987
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Iam encouraging all African-Americans to write to the Los
Angeles Dodgers baseball organization to demand that the Dodgers give
Al Campanis back his job. Mr. Campanis is the white, front-office
executive of the Dodgers who said something about "blacks not being
able to float" when asked why there were so few African-Americans in
managerial or executive positions in baseball.
Now honestly, I can't swim. And I don't see the connection
between swimming and administrating any kind of organization. But
I'm also smart enough to know that the firing of Mr. Campanis will
not change any of the problems in our society that his fallacious
reasoning has brought to our attention.
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