Posted on 03/29/2021 6:34:13 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Kevin B. Blackistone, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland and former ESPN analyst, is calling for the MLB to pull its All-Star Game from Georgia over the state’s new election integrity law.
Blackistone praised Atlanta for having one of the first liberal activist mayors in the south and noted that the NBA gave the city a team a few years after Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., testified before Congress in favor of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
But, like most leftists, Blackistone is furious that Georgia is attempting to prevent future election debacles by making changes in its election laws. And like most leftists, Blackistone is mischaracterizing what those changes are.
The columnist was incensed when Georgia state troopers arrested a black Georgia State Rep. who tried to get herself on TV by screaming and yelling and pounding on the governor’s door to illicitly disrupt the bill-signing ceremony as he signed the election bill into law last week. Blackistone absurdly claimed that the arrest was somehow “mimicking the worst scenes of the old Jim Crow South.” Except, of course, that the woman arrested was a duly elected official and a black woman — something that could not have happened in the Jim Crow South.
The columnist then praised the WNBA for its combined effort to oust Georgia’s Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler from her seat, and then from ousting her as an owner from the league. “That was using sports as an agent for social change,” Blackistone crowed.
With that in mind, Blackistone thinks that sports should turn against Georgia because he doesn’t like the state’s laws. Pro sports need to punish Georgia. “Sports,” Blackistone concludes, “should remind those elected Georgians — the ones acting to take the state back to an ugly yesteryear — right now.”
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Banging on the governors’s door ?Sounds like insurrection. Hope they get tried for treason.
If MLB folds and acquiesces to these lowlife thieves, then they can take their bats and balls and shove them.
Well here’s another shock! When the Left is not “cancelling” people, it’s cancelling entire sporting events.
MLB does this they can permanently f@@@ themselves.
Why wait?
Here we go with the threats and intimidation
same thing they did with Kristi Noem last week, threatened to ban her state’s teams from NCAA if they passed the girls-only sports bill
and most of the time, the politicians cave
USA should boycott EndBA for its partnership with a genocidal communist regime.
Chairman King and his virtue signaling idiots should be ashamed!
Dear Kevin Blackstone,
I highly doubt the majority of people in Atlanta, Cobb County, Smyrna, Vinings, and the state as whole, give a crap about the All Star game being played here.
Take the game, that no one will be allowed to attend anyway, someplace else. Feel free
Sincerely,
Georgia.
Make them play at GITMO.
Let them have water and get on with life.
I really think that after a year of Covid professional sports has more to lose than gain by being political.
Pardon me Mr. Blackstone, but aren’t the people who are functionally literate and can produce photo ID to vote being disenfranchised when voter fraud by mail in or other means is permitted? And this sort of disenfranchisement does not discriminate according to race or colour or creed or gender or sexual orientation?
MLB should just drop the Braves altogether and force them to find a home more conducive to their ideology. Maybe Connecticut.
MLB will crumble under the pressure. Courage is a very scarce commodity these days.
is there anything more useless than a journalism professor?
They smell blood now, after their victory in stopping South Dakota from protecting women’s sports. Now it’s time to step beyond sports, and make sure state governments learn just who is their new boss.
More leftie coordinated pressure.
Fan are already fleeing prof sports, including baseball. Plus the collective bargaining agreement is coming up. It would be suicidal for MLB to do this.
When will “we” quit caving to the most whiney voice in the corner?
Kevin is an Irish name. That clown needs to change his name. He is culturally appropriating my heritage.
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