ABSTRACT
This is my idea of an academic conference. I don't know where I get the authority to talk about Jackie Robinson. I did meet him once. I was renting a tuxedo when I was getting married. He was renting a tuxedo for some event. I was twenty-two. You see him and you lose all language, composure and everything else. And you feel like a jerk getting married anyway. But I mustered the courage and I went up and just talked to him. And I thought: It will never happen. I'll never be a man. That's a man!
