Posted on 06/19/2020 2:13:59 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The Minnesota Twins have removed a statue of former owner Calvin Griffith at Target Field, citing racist remarks he made in 1978. Griffith's statue was one of several installed when the team opened its new ballpark in 2010.
The team said in a statement Friday it "cannot remain silent and continue ignoring the racist comments he made in Waseca ... (that) displayed a blatant intolerance and disregard for the Black community that are the antithesis of what the Minnesota Twins stand for and value."
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Good EFFING grief!!!!!!!! When is this shit going to stop?!!!!
It’s not even virtue signalling any more. It’s the rush to cancel someone in a hurry in the hope the beast will eat them last.
When people start telling them NO, don’t think that is going to happen anytime soon though.
Maybe when any Ali statue comes down?
Remember when he said of Joe Frazier “a killa and a thrilla and a chilla, when I get that gorilla in Manila.”
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Kirby Puckett statute coming down, too? He was accused of sexual assault, etc.
This utter crap is making me PRAY for a return to full segregation, and if they want a civil war, lets get it on!!!!!!!!!!
“When people start telling them NO, don’t think that is going to happen anytime soon though.”
The family that owns the Twins made this decision.
It is their team, it is their statue.
They can take it down.
Sports Halls of Fame will be the next target. Ty Cobb, one of the first inductees, had lots of accusations thrown at him.
“This utter crap is making me PRAY for a return to full segregation...”
Where are you going to move if your prayers are answered?
But OJ will still be in the NFL HOF.
O ly perceived racism against only blacks is unforgivable in the twilight zone.
Really?, damn makes no sense to me but whatever.
Talk about giving your family the middle finger to give the appearance that your “woke” or something.
Someone needs to start a Museum to put all these statues up before we lose all of oir history.
Yes Cobb is widely and falsely painted as a bigot. The first man elected to the Hall of fame.
“The family that owns the Twins made this decision. It is their team, it is their statue. They can take it down.”
Is that all you know about what is happening?
So we can cancel Farrakhan now then?
How about all the racist rap albums against white people?
How about all the racist rap albums against black people?
O.J. Simpson is in the Football Hall of Fame.
Pete Rose is banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
If the reverse was true, you don’t think we’d hear about how a bunch of white males have banned Simpson from the Hall?
Cap Anson will come out first.
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