Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00Like I said earlier, I think I grew up in one of the best times, I'm sorry, that, you know, and yeah, there was, there was, uh, segregation, but.

00:17Baseball is the most important sport in America, and if we can integrate baseball, then we can integrate America.

00:25I mean, they just lived in a certain part of town, and we lived in the other side of town. You didn't think about it one way or the other.

00:33It angered me. It angered me. When I got into the Middle East baseball, I felt free. Yes, I did feel free.

00:44You know, it's awfully easy to be racist when you've never known the other race, and, uh, I didn't.

00:52When I look at, uh, a white person, the first thing I notice about them was their eyes. What's on their mind?

01:03They refused to play us because we were black and they were white.

01:08Our coach resigned because he would not coach a game against a black team.

01:13Do not send those black boys here, or they will come back in a castle.

01:22And that's when whole hell of a bitch.

01:25Yeah, you could almost hate me.

01:27But then I felt sorry for a long time.

01:32Nobody should take your dreams away from you, especially a kid.

01:35I'm not sure there is a way to heal it.

01:45It's ingrained in everybody now.

01:50Only thing we were doing was going to go play ball.

01:54And that was the spirit of all of us.

01:58To play ball.

01:59All right!

02:02All right!

02:02Amen.

Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer

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