Posted on 08/13/2020 9:15:45 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Funny...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican.
We watched 2 minutes of a local game - laughed our rear ends off after viewing a cardboard cutout wearing a mask! We changed the channel immediately and will never view ANY game again.
The first owner of the Mets, Joan Payson was the first woman to own a Major League baseball team. BUT she was dripping with PRIVILEGE so she’s cancellable. Besides, Shea Stadium and Citi Field were built in what F Scott Fitzgerald referred to in The Great Gatsby as the Valley of the Ashes, a swampy garbage dump where the poor lived. That part of Queens was like that until that racist Robert Moses built the parkway system and was instrumental in the opening of the 1939 World’s Fair. Racism is everywhere! Seek and ye shall find /s
“After they provided the shipping needed to bring the slaves over from Africa.”
And after the recruiting, trading, and sales of the slaves was accomplished by black tribal chiefs in Africa.
And you may be misinformed about the slave trade operation.
Triangular transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. It was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe. The Portuguese were the first of the providers and profitted at each location. But the funds and trade to supply the slaves was funded by European countries. And the slaves provided goods to Europe from the Americas in goods back to Europe.
It was all European controlled until the revolution ending in 1783 with the Declaration of Independence ratification. And in a little less than 100 years it was abolished altogether led by the north in our civil war ending in 1865.
To this day, there are still die hard people supporting the southern theology of slavery that displayed things like Jim Crow laws, litmus tests, separate basic facilities and other forms of mistreatment. But the problem there is that there has been no reasonable dialog on the topic since the death of MLK in 1968. And for that, I fault all sides. Everyone has demands, but few are being reasonable. And it always seems to resort to violence rather than understanding. So the problem continues. And the violence is expected and propagated rather than being determined a worthless example of animal reaction. We are supposed to be higher on the food chain that that.
rwood
I would take that as poking fun at everyone wearing masks. I'm waiting for someone to replicate the cover from Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the image that comes to mind as a group of cutouts.
I have not watched a single pitch of MLB this season. If you knew me that would shock you. My man cave is like a baseball museum with autographed jerseys, caps and helmets. I have seats from 11 former baseball stadiums. I have a life-long passion for baseball. Growing up in the `70s in Cincinnati, how could I not?
BUT, I love my country more. When they took the knee and supported Marxists hell bent on destroying my nation, I walked away.
NO!
Useful information.
This whole thing is satire. Relax.
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