It's a gift of good timing that we can post a podcast about a Jackie Robinson movie on Jackie Robinson Day.

 

The Brooklyn Dodgers star is portrayed very well by the great Chadwick Boseman, who played a lot of real-life legends in his tragically short career. 42 is well-made, looks good and gives us what feels like an accurate version of some terrible realities for Black people in America then and now. As for politics, we spent a lot of this episode discussing social awakening (including our own) and we give you what we think is a pretty solid history lesson, complete with lots of stats about Jackie's Hall Of Fame career. The 2 biggest problems with Brian Helgeland's picture are that it feels rushed and plays it too safe. Is a grittier miniseries made by a Black person in our future, maybe?

 

So don't take a bat to a brick wall. Just put on a gruff Harrison Ford voice and ready yourself for a civil fight as we spend over an hour speaking about 42.

 

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