By Mike Finger, Columnist | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-03-20 16:26:51
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
道奇队签下杰基·罗宾逊(Jackie Robinson)难道不是一项具有深远影响的政治举动吗？
尝试讲述杰基·罗宾逊的故事。尝试捕捉他的勇气和技巧，他的品格和服务精神，他的竞争力和改变世界的决心。
现在，尝试以五角大楼希望的方式讲述罗宾逊的故事：不要提及任何“不可改变的特征”。
不要承认他八十年前的任何贡献为何重要。
并且，看在上帝的份上，不要解释为什么它们至今仍然重要。
截至周四下午，一份描述罗宾逊服兵役经历的国防部网页在消失一天后重新上线，取而代之的是一个包含字母“dei”的URL。在过去的几周里，数千个纪念妇女和少数族裔群体贡献的页面——包括纳瓦霍密码员和塔斯基吉飞行员——也被类似地删除，这是官方认为与多样性、公平和包容相关的清查内容。
在公众强烈抗议之后，其中一些页面被恢复。但在周三发布给多家媒体的一份声明中，五角大楼新闻秘书约翰·乌利奥特明确了关于这些故事的某些内容。
乌利奥特的声明说：“我们不通过诸如种族、民族或性别等不可改变的特征的棱镜来观察或强调它们。”
这很方便，不是吗？事实上，这太方便了，以至于罗宾逊可能会真正喜欢他一生故事的版本，在这个版本中，“不可改变的特征”是无关紧要的。
也许罗宾逊应该在1942年提到，当他应征入伍并成为隔离的第761坦克营（被称为黑豹）的一员时，他不希望通过不可改变的特征的棱镜来观察他。
也许他应该提到，在1944年，当他拒绝搬到陆军巴士的后部后，宪兵被叫来时，没有必要通过不可改变的特征的棱镜来观察他。他受到军事法庭的审判并被无罪释放。
也许他应该提到，当他在1947年打破美国职业棒球大联盟的肤色障碍时，当他经常遭受恶毒的嘲讽和难以想象的仇恨时，通过不可改变的特征的棱镜来观察他是无关紧要的。
也许他102岁的遗孀雷切尔·罗宾逊，去年四月在纽约花旗球场参加了一个“杰基·罗宾逊日”的比赛，应该在那天告诉大家，他们不应该通过不可改变的特征的棱镜来纪念她已故的丈夫，因为那是不合适的。
正如五角大楼发言人乌利奥特在他的声明中指出的那样，像罗宾逊和纳瓦霍密码员以及塔斯基吉飞行员这样的人应该受到敬意，“只能通过承认他们的爱国主义和对作战任务的奉献，就像每一个（原文如此）穿过制服的美国人一样。”
他们和别人一样，明白了吗？
可惜当时没人告诉他们。
如果这一切不是如此令人厌恶，如此侮辱我们的集体智慧，那将是可笑的。将一个关于罗宾逊的故事标记为“dei”，无论是“错误”还是其他原因，都超出了容忍范围，令人难以置信。
这就是为什么当人们试图夺走这些故事，或者贬低它们的意义时，不应该保持沉默。
继续讲述这些故事。
完整的故事。
通过真相的棱镜。
下个月，美国职业棒球大联盟将再次讲述其最鼓舞人心的故事之一。更确切地说，人们可能会说美国职业棒球大联盟将出售其最鼓舞人心的故事之一。
只需47.99美元，您就可以购买您最喜欢的球队在4月15日（罗宾逊首次亮相的周年纪念日）将要佩戴的帽子，侧面缝制着一个42号补丁。再多花134.99美元，您就可以拥有任何球队的官方42号球衣，由Fanatics制造并获得美国职业棒球大联盟的许可。
杰基·罗宾逊日是一个庆祝活动，也是一个重要的活动。但是，当棒球运动员拍着自己的背并数着自己的钱时，最好不要忽视那些有被抹去危险的东西。
当需要提醒世界罗宾逊克服的无知和仇恨时？
讲述当时发生的一切。
并讲述现在发生的一切。
点击查看原文：Why we can't edit the story of Jackie Robinson
Why we can’t edit the story of Jackie Robinson
What was the Dodgers’ signing of Jackie Robinson’s if not a political move with repercussions?
Try to tell the story of Jackie Robinson. Try to capture his courage and his skill, his character and his service to others, his competitiveness and his world-changing resolve.
Now try to tell Robinson’s story the way the Pentagon wants you to: Don’t mention any “immutable characteristics.”
Don’t acknowledge why any of his contributions mattered eight decades go.
And for goodness sakes, don’t explain why they matter still.
As of Thursday afternoon, a Department of Defense webpage describing Robinson’s military service was back online, after disappearing the day before and being replaced with a URL that included the letters “dei.” Over the past few weeks, thousands of pages honoring contributions by women and minority groups – including the Navajo Code Talkers and the Tuskegee Airmen – were similarly removed in a purge of content officials consider to be related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
After public uproar, a few of those pages were restored. But in a statement released to multiple media outlets on Wednesday, Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot made something clear about those stories.
“We do not view or highlight them through the prism of immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity or sex,” Ullyot’s statement said.
That’s convenient, isn’t it? It’s so convenient, in fact, that Robinson probably would have gotten a real kick out of the version of his life story in which “immutable characteristics” were irrelevant.
Perhaps Robinson should have mentioned that he did not wish to be viewed through the prism of immutable characteristics in 1942, when he was drafted into service and became a member of the segregated 761st Tank Battalion, known as the Black Panthers.
Perhaps he should have mentioned there was no need to view him through the prism of immutable characteristics in 1944, when military police were called after he refused to move to the back of an Army bus. He was court-martialed and acquitted.
Perhaps he should have mentioned it was irrelevant to view him through the prism of immutable characteristics as he broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, when he routinely was subjected to vicious taunts and unthinkable hatred.
And perhaps his 102-year-old widow Rachel Robinson, who attended a game on “Jackie Robinson Day” last April at New York’s Citi Field, should have told everyone that day that they should honor her late husband not through the prism of immutable characteristics, because that would be inappropriate.
As Ullyot, the Pentagon spokesman, noted in his statement, people like Robinson and the Navajo Code Talkers and the Tuskegee Airmen should be saluted “only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the war fighting mission like ever (sic) other American who has worn the uniform.”
They were just like everybody else, get it?
It’s a shame nobody informed them of that back then.
If this all wasn’t so repugnant, and so insulting to our collective intelligence, it would be laughable. Labeling a story about Robinson as “dei,” whether by “mistake” or not, is so beyond the pale that it boggles the mind.
That’s why there shouldn’t be silence when people try to take the stories away, or to diminish their significance.
Keep telling the stories.
The whole stories.
Through the prism of truth.
Next month, Major League Baseball again will tell one of its most inspirational stories. To put a finer point on it, one might say MLB will sell one of its most inspirational stories.
For $47.99, you can purchase the same cap your favorite team will wear on April 15 – the anniversary of the day Robinson made his debut – with a No. 42 patch stitched on the side. For $134.99 more, you can own any team’s official No. 42 jersey, made by Fanatics and licensed by MLB.
Jackie Robinson Day is a celebration, and an important one. But while baseball is patting itself on the back and counting its money, it better not ignore what’s in danger of being wiped away.
And when it comes time to remind the world of the ignorance and hate Robinson overcame?
Tell it all about what happened then.
And tell it all about what happens now.
By Mike Finger, Columnist, via San Antonio Express-News