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| Above, my last visit to Dodger Stadium. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
From the Los Angeles Times:
Mookie Betts kneeled during the national anthem before the Dodgers’ season-opening 8-1 win against the San Francisco Giants on Thursday night, joining a growing number of players around baseball this week choosing to protest racial injustice and police brutality with the act.
“It just shows unity,” Betts said during a televised interview in regard to his teammates joining him. “I think everybody is on board with what’s going on in the world. We have to make some change. It starts here. We have to do our part. It’s amazing to know that everybody here is on board with something that we have to find a way to make change. This is the first step.”
In addition to Betts, San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler and several of his players also kneeled during “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which followed a pregame ceremony promoting social justice.
“I have talked to our guys about kneeling and for me it was more of individual choice,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Thursday afternoon, wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt for a pregame video conference with reporters. “Collectively, we really haven’t settled on anything. But for me I just wanted to encourage each and every man to make their own decision.”
Before the game, members of the team wore “Black Lives Matter” shirts on the field. Others wore sleeve patches promoting the cause on their game jerseys. On the back of the mound at Dodger Stadium, the letters “BLM” were written beneath an MLB logo.My individual choice:
BLM (a Marxist organization) was stenciled on the hallowed field, Dodger players were wearing BLM shirts and kneeling during the national anthem. I am forever done with the Los Angeles Dodgers and major league baseball.
1 comment:
I am truly amazed at how the U.S., probably the LEAST RACIST and most tolerant country in the world, is being afflicted with madness. Name any other country where minority people can rise to higher quality of life, including all those well-paid athletes. Name another majority white country that has elected a black head of state. France? England? Germany? Canada? Not the last time I checked. How many minority presidents and prime ministers (relative to their majority populations) have there been in Japan? China? India? None that I know of. Why would professional sports figures support BLM, a group that is anti-free enterprise, the very economic system that built their stadiums and made their fans wealthy enough to buy season tickets and overpriced beer? Why do they support BLM, when it's promotes a self-professed anti-family ideology? Actual data shows that blacks and other minorities are treated no differently than whites when it comes to police dealing with criminal behavior. There is no systemic racism, and even if there were, it's apparently developed in cities ruled by Democrats for decades! Ronald Reagan was never more correct when he said, "The U.S. is the last, best hope of man on Earth." I never thought I'd see the country taking that first step into a "thousand years of darkness" in my lifetime. We wonder, from a distance, how such things as Nazi Germany, Communist China and Bolshevik Russia could have happened. Well, we're watching it unfold before our very eyes. And every idiot that votes for Biden or another Democrat is complicit.
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