Okay, so it's clear: we can't "just all get along", so let's concede the Left's demand, and return to segregation by race and sex
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who’s she think she is, Jackie Robinson?” (Yes, probably)
MLB is in an uproar over a Yankee’s “racist” comment
In a 2019 Sports Illustrated interview, Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson said that he felt like “today’s Jackie Robinson”. How so? Who knows, but probably because he was only earning a rookie’s salary of just $1.4 million at the time ($7 million in 2021, $9.5 this year) and felt oppressed.
Yesterday, Yankee Josh Donaldson, passing Anderson in the first inning, said, “What’s up, Jackie?” and Anderson went ballistic. “He just made a disrespectful comment. Basically, he was trying to call me Jackie Robinson. ‘What’s up, Jackie?’ I don’t play like that. I don’t really play at all. I wasn’t really going to bother nobody today, but he made the comment, and you know it was disrespectful and I don’t think it was called for. It was unnecessary.”
For his part, Donaldson said he had “joked around” with Anderson about his fatuous remark before. “My meaning of that is not any term trying to be racist by any fact of the matter,” he said. “Obviously, he deemed it disrespectful. And look, if he did, I apologize. That’s not what I was trying to do by any manner and that’s what happened.”
White Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal threw fuel on the fire in the fifth inning when he began yelling at Donaldson when he came up bat. “Believe me, you don’t want me to tell you guys what I told him,” Grandal told reporters later. “This game went through a period in time where a lot of those comments were meant, and I think we’re way past that. And it’s just unacceptable. I just thought it was a low blow and I want to make sure I’ve got my team’s back. There’s no way that you’re allowed to say something like that.”
Well, sure. Nowadays we aren’t allowed to say a lot of things, and more of that is coming. The White Sox’s superannuated manager Tony La Russa, who at 77 is old enough to remember real racism, has learned in his dotage to be woke, and so he jumped on Donaldson as well. Donaldson, he said, “made a racist comment, Donaldson, and that’s all I’m going to say. That’s as strong as it gets.” Anderson agreed with La Russa’s comment, saying, “Same. Same. Along that same line.” According to ESPN, “Major League Baseball is looking into the matter and speaking to all of the relevant parties involved.”
The great former pitcher Curt Schilling, who would be in the Hall of Fame today if he weren’t a critic of Leftism, offered a note of sanity: “So a black player calls himself a modern-day Jackie Robinson, why I have no idea, and then a player rags him on it, and that’s racist? This is what happens when the liberal world WAITS in anticipation for the next event they can label racism.”
