The billy club and the baseball bat are competing weapons in the war for the mind of white America. The brutal swing of the billy club on besieged black bodies can be symbolically fought by the sweet swing of a black star at the plate. If baseball was once America's pastime, so, too, was hatred, and fear, of black people.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like, p. 251-252
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