What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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The first black president will be a politician who is black.
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.
Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
I've probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in New York City with the possible exception of Mike Bloomberg, who was there for 12 years.
So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
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