Gregory Kane: Drop the litmus tests against Jackie Robinson

Published May 12, 2013 4:00am ET



Baseball great Jackie Robinson being subjected to a political litmus test of racial loyalty?

Apparently that’s the case. Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947, was black, Republican and somewhat conservative.

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