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But a form titled “Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, Publication
Review” was banned from Death Row because “It contains material that
a reasonable person would construe as written solely for the purpose of
communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons
through offender disruption such as strikes or riots." Two pages were
specifically mentioned.
Page 44 includes a quote from Jackie Robinson’ s autobiography
referring to the blatant racism he suffered early in his rookie season: “I
felt tortured and | tried to just play ball and ignore the insults but it was
really getting to me. For one wild and rage-crazed moment | thought,
‘To hell with Mr. Rickey’ s noble experiment. To hell with the image of
the patient black freak | was supposed to create.’ | could throw down my
bat, stride over to that Phillies dugout, grab one of those white sons of
bitches, and smash his teeth in with my despised black fist. Then | could
walk away from it all.”
And page 55 includes a passage about Jack Johnson’ s defeat of
the “Great White Hope,” Jim Jeffries: “Johnson was faster, stronger and
smarter than Jeffries. He knocked Jeffries out with ease. After Johnson’ s
victory, there were race riots around the country in Illinois, Missouri, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas and Washington, D.C. Most of
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