Jackie Robinson's Influence On Society

Jackie Robinson greatly influenced our country. When racial inequality was high, he stood up for himself and other African-American people fighting for rights. He was just another great man who was better than many white athletes, but was not accepted until he was mid-career. This shows that, no matter what race or ethnicity you are, you can do great things. Jackie Robinson was one of the first black sports stars. Jackie Robinson is an inspirational athlete. When he was in the college UCLA he received honors in all 4 sports, making him a sports legend. The young man was already gaining more fame, and more hate. Jackie responded to this hate well, by doing nearly nothing. He didn't fight back, instead, he soaked it all up, and stayed relatively shy. For example, Rickey, exploding: "Robinson, I'm looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back." Not only that, but he served in the then segregated US army. He spoke about how he was good enough to risk his life for the country but not good enough for baseball. Later on in his life he became a major league baseball player. Even then, he faced racism. Robinson learned how to exercise self-control -- to answer insults, violence and injustice with silence. …show more content…
He helped lower racism, took the no blacks rule, and slowly slipped pass the gates of racism and smashed it from the inside out, letting African-Americans into the gates of Major League sports. He helped blacks from being the hated, the negatives, to being starts, the loved, like Jackie himself or Lebron James. Not only did Jackie do this, he served in the U.S. army, proving to the world that black people can do more than what is expected of them. The United States responded with a nope, but he kept of fighting back, which makes him good enough to risk his life to save the country and good enough for baseball. Jackie Robinson proved to the world that blacks can do just as much as white