re bonilla in article apr island com fester island com mike fester writes in article apr princeton edu roger astro princeton edu roger lustig writes when i say black i mean us born black people for the purposes of this discussion hispanic players were in baseball before and one team in the s signed lots of hispanics because they went over better with the local audience than blacks did what about black hispanics good question it s my impression not backed by evidence that general south of the borderness seems to exempt one from the hiring firing effect i was talking about back in the s there were some attempts to hire black cuban ballplayers they were rejected by the commissioner and others and why would more hispanics stick around than blacks don t know but remember this is the country that had special racial laws for one group and one group only blacks our national history man you had better do some serious reading i really really doubt that you meant to say this well what did i mean to say aside from some short lived exceptions such as japanese internment in ww ii only blacks were affected by laws regarding slavery jim crow miscegenation military service etc if my claim of exclusivity is not airtight that is if you can come up with this or that exception fine have a cookie but compared to this list no other racial group put up with a legal onslaught worth discussing at length roger
