ON JACKIE ROBINSON DAY, let’s remember when he was fired from the New York Post for being too Republican. In response to his firing (1960), Robinson wrote this:

No one will ever convince me that the Post acted in an honest manner. I believe the simple truth is that they became somewhat alarmed when they realized that I really meant to write what I believed. There is a peculiar parallel between some of our great Northern "liberals" and some of our outstanding Southern liberals.

Some of the people in both classes share the deep-seated convictions that only their convictions can possibly be the right ones. They both inevitably say the same thing: "We know the Negro and what is best for him."

He was right then, and still right today.