@socialanatomy101: Roberto Clemente was an Afro Latino from Puerto Rico. He was the greatest right-fielder ever to play the game of of baseball. In his eighteen seasons with the Pirates, Roberto Clemente led the team to two World Series championships, won four National League batting titles, received the Most Valuable Player award, and earned twelve consecutive Gold Gloves. He was a Hall of Fame outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates and beloved humanitarian. Clemente’s activism as a Black man who spoke out, frequently in his second language, against racism in the United States during a career that paralleled the civil rights movement. Clemente, a U.S. Marine Corps reservist, admired Martin Luther King Jr. and spent an afternoon with him at his farm in Puerto Rico. He denounced the segregation he confronted during spring training in the Jim Crow era of the South and pushed for the Pirates to make changes to better accommodate Black players. He Protested discrimination against Latin and African ball player and Demanded that the Pirates provide Black players with a separate vehicle to drive to Black restaurants. He had great pride and integrity as a Black Puerto Rican and Latino, claiming his place in a very, very complicated environment. He died a hero at age 38 when his plane overfilled with aid en route to earthquake victims in Nicaragua crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico on New Year’s Eve 1972. (LATINO, PUERTO RICAN, CUBAN, DOMINICAN ARE NOT RACES ALOT OF THEM ARE BLACK OR MIXED BLACK FOLK WITH NATIVE AND EUROPEAN BLOOD.) #fyp #robertoclemente #puertorico🇵🇷 #afrolatina #afrolatino #baseball #baseballlife #BlackHistory #blackhistorymonth #blackpeople #blackdiaspora #carribean #latin #latinamerica #blackman #fypシ #majorleaguebaseball #brooklyndodgers #pirates #blackactivists #blackpuertorican #blacklatinhistory #blacklatinoculture #blackculture #blackcultureappreciation #foryourpage #africanamerican #afrolatinotiktok #afrolatinotiktok #puertorican #puertoricantiktok #carribeantiktok #blacklatinx #africantiktok #mixedtiktok #blackamericantiktok #BlackTikTok #roberto #clemente #robertoclementeday #fyp

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