European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Morr theft 1977 Jesse Jackson from is until the opened the 1947 Seison with Jackie Robin son of the organized baseball had kept itself As while As when Robinson boldly stepped up to Bat for the first time 30 seasons the face of  sports was changed what we still dont know about is Iti without Blacks have come into extraordinary prominence since the talented and very careful Robinson broke the color including time Cost Sld or he Black role in american sports today not one of but and a ski deep look at some of the facts George seems o Bear that Mort than four of tical football league uniform arc Tiro of every 10 big league baseball players Are Black but four of every 10 starters Are More than seven of every 10 professional boxers in the United states Are ii is apparent to even Bough los one of tic topics folks dont that the intelligence and Shew Energy o Black athletes Are prime ingredients or the magical Appeal has All of this is but so a this discrimination still rules in professional sports a proving Nal  at professional sports discrimination consider of peking is w Pil Blacks thus assuring thai certain Are almost always White r 4 in the cards and Center Middle i Are White positions positions which f the summer of our Contentment lifted into office on a weak wave of unformed Jimmy Carters task was More to create a constituency than to please one after six months he has completed just on eighth of his term and on sixteenth of the possible but he has a contended his finest achievement is what critics i columns comments i Call worsened relations with Moscow the word worsened is packed to the gun Wales with unsound that re lations Are chillier than they would be if Ford had been elected does not mean they Are worse for if the overriding aim of policy were Harmony with then any complaint from Moscow would demonstrate a fault in but Carter has More complicated to did not understand that his human rights endorsements challenged the legitimacy o the soviet regime and he was startled that Moscow rudely rejected a proposal for arms so it was an Accident that Carter caused Brezhnev to stand before the world Simul human rights Ana arms reduce but by doing Carter began the re education of the americans and allies concerning this nations fundamental and fundamental differences with the his More ideological and More intelligible approach to the so Viets does not enjoy the undiluted support of his so he should remind some aides of prime minister Melbourne remark at the end of a Cabinet meeting on the Price of wheat a minute did we decide to raise the Price or Tower the Price it Doest matter but it does matter that we All say the same Carters finest achieve ment has bean Quick March away from his party by Stark said All treaties the words rebus sic Multi bus As Long As things remain the the democrats plat form the words if the Economy does not remain the but the Economy is the for the foreseeable inflation and unemployment will remain too and economic growth will not be Swift enough to give president Carter revenues sufficient Tor even his limited inclinations toward Active the most salient political is unlike most issues because it do Energises caller is As is a Republican in a demo cratic is a Democrat in a Republican More than at any time since the supreme courts ism desegregation decision put race on the National Agenda More than at any Lime since the de pression changed the relationship of the cilia in to the stale political debate today is confined to a narrow margin of us Coad Carter hears no clamor for new lie is neither Able nor inclined to shift significantly the current division of the nations resources Between private co Surap Tun and the consumption of Public he was not elected As obstetrician for a new soon All else in Washington May be eclipsed by a deluge of cold acid from the Clouds of scandal hovering Over the Hesi Tant congressional investigation of korean and when the next surge of inflation As surely it it will Start Tram today base rate o six per twelve months of 12 per cent inflation would make the political landscape but for now the nation is and ought to be what essayist Henry Fairlie Calls the patience of the political in a mature says this process is like the movement of a great River once it has reached uie the rushes and Falls of the Moun Tain streams Are behind All of them tributaries to its main Stream now 11 Broad and through the de positing its Silt year by nourishing the land through which it makes its so politics should gathering strength from every Active Force in society Tod by every living idea but in the end seeking Only to leave some Small de posit which will enrich society Tor future while carrying the mud out to sea or letting it sink to the this is the summer of our Contentment but summer will pass shortstop ands base stacking has been Well l careful one such study that pro Central pos item or per cent peripheral poll ions cent another study found 78 per o outfielders of pro were per cent of on everybody Black us but who cants i White players earn significantly r average Black players who often Black baseball Bench have higher baking averages some starting White baseball what happens to Blacks when Thor i careers Are finished in the Register t of pro sports revealed of x pro ftps bag head coaches and of 24 major league j baseball Only one was t and Hes been fired since of pro basketballs 17 head or 29 per Are Black forget that 60 per cent of the i one of americas modern myths is t sports is Freer of discrimination than i other area of american and that t Cess in sports is a product of individual before he Jackie Robinson made dear that he understood what so dont that in 1947 be Only crossed the Ible color in the invisible line still there to be a in hotter hell humid hazy and polluted How do you humans stand it stupor tin 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