I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
From Curt Flood
I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.
I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.
Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
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