Little League International announced Wednesday morning that the Jackie Robinson West All-Stars had players in its lineup who lived outside the team’s boundaries.
At an afternoon press conference, the Rev. Jesse Jackson asked, “Is this about boundaries or race?”
“This decision’s untimely and inappropriate at this time,” Jackson told reporters. “It should not take six months after a team has played a championship game to determine eligibility to play the game in the first place.”
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“We had to provide birth certificates, proof of schools, light bills, so we had to prove our residency in order to join the team,” Jackie Robinson West parent Venisa Green said before Wednesday’s decision.
At Wednesday’s press conference, Green said she was “blindsided” by the league’s decision and that she heard about it on the radio as she was driving her son Brandon to school.
“It is amazing to me that whenever African-Americans exceed the expectations that there is always going to be fault,” Green said.
That’s just pathetic. You’re caught cheating. Just take the punishment.
Here’s another team that was caught cheating and was stripped of the title. Should they protest that it was because they were white?
But it’s common knowledge that everyone who thinks of Obama as “Dear Leader” hangs on Jackson’s (and Al Sharpton’s) pronouncements regarding race as if they fell from the mouth of God.
Both of them. All right, I’ll be generous — three.
If the adult-in-charge told the children it was ok to play on this team, then they don’t deserve to be collectively punished for the adult’s lie - especially the children who had no part in the lie at all. The adults, on the other hand, should be banned from LL.
The issue, as I see it, is whether the Jackie Robinson West team was treated any differently than past teams have been. It’s justifiable to ask them to prove their players’ residence if that has been a standard practice. Does anyone know the answer to that?
I don’t know if this particular team is guilty of using players outside their boundaries, but it’s been a problem for a long time and this isn’t the first disqualification.
I find it amusing that conservatives think a lot more about Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Saul Alinsky, etc. FAR more than us liberals do. Why, if it weren’t for our so very concerned conservative brethren, I probably would have never even *heard *of two of those names.
“This has been BLACK PERSPECTIVE with Terr… the only show that’s by white people, for white people, about black people! Tune in tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that…”
Much like “sometimes, cries of rape are actually fake”, this is a blatantly obvious truism that more often than not leads into “all cries of racism are actually bullshit”. Or, more commonly, “that specific cry of racism (which is actually totally accurate) is bullshit!”