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Posted on 04/22/2010 8:32:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for MiamiNew Times. This week, Luke claims Major League Baseball has a plan to phase out African-American players and replace them with black Hispanic players.
April means Major League Baseball's opening day, which gets me thinking about the media firestorm Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torii Hunter ignited last month when he called players from the Dominican Republic "imposters." This reflected his opinion that dark-skinned Latin American major leaguers shouldn't be counted as blacks. He's right.
For quite some time, Major League Baseball has disenfranchised African-American kids. The scouts and owners have gone out and found players who look black, but to whom they can pay less money. Major League Baseball adopted this sweatshop mentality by targeting countries like the Dominican Republic, where players don't have a chance of being drafted or getting a scholarship right out of high school. A baseball team has to pay much more money to the African-American kid coming out of college than a kid from Santo Domingo or Puerto Plata. A former pro baseball player who is now a minor league coach told me all about the farm system in Latin American countries. The Dominicans often accept being shipped to minor league farm systems where they have to sleep dormitory-style, 100 to a room. In Mexico, minor league players have to play games all day and all night. Sometimes a game doesn't start till midnight. And every Major League Baseball team has people on the ground scouting for talent.
How do the Florida Marlins manage to field a competitive team and keep the payroll low? Because the club has one of the best farm systems in Major League Baseball. They can get top-of-the-line Dominican players at a bargain price.
What Major League Baseball needs to do is reintroduce the sport to African-American children. Let's not forget the Negro Baseball League played a very important part of African-American people's history. I played it as a kid at Flamingo Park in Miami Beach. When I started the Liberty City Optimist Club, we had the kids playing baseball before football. In fact, the club is one of the oldest African-American Little League teams in Florida. You would think the Marlins would do their research and support a program like that, but they don't.
Even at the high school level, there is no effort to generate interest in baseball among teenage black boys. The owners need to put the resources in the inner cities because baseball is a beautiful sport.
But that is not in the plans. The plan is to eliminate black Americans and replace them with Dominicans.
bigot
You think that is bad, I heard they are trying to replace black politicians with black whites.
The “racism/discrimination” excuse is a very comfortable crutch.
Old and tired, but useful for any situation of inadequacy, and very comfortable indeed.
What a whine!
Guess American born black people need to avoid learning Spanish lest they be counted as Dominicans!
How can they get players of a certain race to accept less money? They don’t get agents who try to negotiate the best deal for their clients?
Former Twin Torii has been replaced with Orlando Hudson, who is talking the same race-card nonsense.
And then they're disenfranchised a few years later when attempting to vote -- whitey won't let them. The low % of blacks in baseball has nothing to do with the fact that the vast majorty of black kids far prefer basketball and football to baseball. It's all about keeping the black man down, just as it's always been. Isn't that right Luke?
Obummer Wants Comuninsky Park to Replace ChiSox With Kenyans
You think that is bad, I heard they are trying to replace black politicians with black whites.
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That was hysterical! hahahahaha
I don’t think it’s intentional, but there are way fewer blacks in MLB than say in the 70’s. Maybe football and basketball are just more appealing to black teenagers. I remember it was a big deal when the Pirates had an “all black” team on the field.
No "maybes" about it -- that's precisely what it is. And there's nothing MLB can do about it. No league or entity can force kids to change their preferences. It's a cultural thing.
So you're trying to tell me that the NHL isn't a racist organization with all those whities in there?
Cultural, ha!!!!! Clearly racist........
The spectators too. I worked as a vendor at Riverfront stadium in the early 90’s. I was talking to another vendor (who was black) and he told me that blacks don’t watch baseball nearly as much as whites do. As soon as Bengals season started, sure enough, I noticed he was right. The stadium was filled with WAY more black fans.
I'm sooooo confuuuuuused....
Is MLB replacing "blacks" with Dominican "white" players?
Are ony Americans to be called "blacks" while people from other countries are referred to by their country?
What is really in the heart and mind of this writer to use words the way he does?
-PJ
Luther Luther Luther-SHUT AND DONT SING ANY MORE!!! Loved ya in 86-92. Now the STFU!
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A lot of older blacks (mostly 50 and older) watch baseball. But yep, the younger generation has little to no inclination to either watch or play America’s pastime.
But they're mostly Canadian, so they aren't authentic whites.
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Yep. Now they're even shipping in spectators from the Dominican Republic. Somebody needs to run and tell Al Sharpton.