Minnesota Twins remove statue of former owner Calvin Griffith over racist comments

CBS/AP ^ | JUNE 19, 2020

[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."

[amnestynone]

These corporate pc aholes received our support in lowering their taxes over the past 40 years. Now probably because of that they have become libs. We need to raise taxes on then again so they night see the world the way the rest of us do instead of as trendy libs gentries.

[Dacula]

I think the “Ty Cobb racist” was started by a sportswriter that Cobb was feuding with.

Damn straight. Ty Cobb was a good man off the field. He built hospitals for black southerners.

[Pelham]

Did Nimrata Nikki Haley Randhawa send the Twins a congratulatory telegram?

[Dacula]

Do not tarnish Ty Cobb for racism. That man did more than any people will know. He helped them and did not hate them.

[JZelle]

We know that but it doesn’t matter to these people.

[amnestynone]

These corporate pc aholes received our support in lowering their taxes over the past 40 years. Now probably because of that they have become libs. We need to raise taxes on then again so they night see the world the way the rest of us do instead of as trendy libs gentries.

[Stravinsky]

Of course they are free to side with the evil, anti-American revolutionaries, but they can and should be criticized for it.

[NautiNurse]

When there is no baseball, does anyone notice the statue is missing?

[djpg]

“ “In my view, Calvin made a horrible mistake while giving that speech in 1978. I have no idea what happened that day, but who among us has not made a mistake?” Carew said.”

The best comment I’ve heard since all of this insanity started. He’ll probably be condemned for it and be forced to retract it.

[Pelham]

“Yes Cobb is widely and falsely painted as a bigot.”

All due to sportswriter Al Stump. Al would have fit right in with ESPN, CNN, MSNBC.

Charles Leerhsen wrote a good piece for Imprimis defending Cobb’s reputation; “Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong”, which includes this:

“But what about Cobb’s 19th-century Southern roots? How could someone born in Georgia in 1886 not be a racist? What I found—and again, not because I am the Babe Ruth of researchers, but because I actually did some research—is that Ty Cobb was descended from a long line of abolitionists. His great-grandfather was a minister who preached against slavery and was run out of town for it. His grandfather refused to fight in the Confederate army because of the slavery issue. And his father was an educator and state senator who spoke up for his black constituents and is known to have once broken up a lynch mob.

“Cobb himself was never asked about segregation until 1952, when the Texas League was integrating, and Sporting News asked him what he thought. “The Negro should be accepted wholeheartedly, and not grudgingly,” he said. “The Negro has the right to play professional baseball and whose [sic] to say he has not?” By that time he had attended many Negro league games, sometimes throwing out the first ball and often sitting in the dugout with the players. He is quoted as saying that Willie Mays was the only modern-day player he’d pay to see and that Roy Campanella was the ballplayer that reminded him most of himself.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-cobb-the-history-we-know-thats-wrong/

[Vision]

So FDR was a lot more racist...

[escapefromboston]

Hopefully this will be a wake up call to White people that this isn’t their country anymore and decades of turning a blind eye to the demographic changes has lead to this point.

[simpson96]

Forty two years ago, people.

But ANY Democrat has and always will get a pass no matter what length of time has gone by, because “they’ve evolved”.

[lodi90]

Hopefully this will be a wake up call to White people that this isn’t their country anymore and decades of turning a blind eye to the demographic changes has lead to this point.

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I doubt it. The Flyers NHL team took down Kate Smith’s statue for much less than this and there was barely a wimper about that.

[crusher]

“Good EFFING grief!!!!!!!! When is this shit going to stop?!!!!”

It’s not going to stop until they are stopped by force, and lot of it. We are not at the place yet where it can be “handled,” but when we get to that point it will be out of control carnage IMHO.