Posted on 06/12/2021 6:00:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia wanted to honor its class of 2021 graduates with a big party on school grounds. If any class deserves a big party to celebrate graduation, it’s the class of 2021. The Yorktown class of 2021 suffered through more than a year of severely limited in-person school activities due to the pandemic and the highly questionable policies imposed in response.
To raise money for the party, parents reached out to local businesses for donations. The Washington Nationals generously responded with a baseball signed by pitcher Patrick Corbin, one the heroes of the Nats’ triumphant post-season in 2019, to be raffled off. One of the parent-organizers posted a picture of the ball on the 2021 Yorktown Senior Class Parents public Facebook page and thanked the Nationals for their generosity.
To any normal person this is a feel-good story. But two parents didn’t see it this way. They objected to accepting the baseball because, they claimed, Corbin is a racist.
What evidence was presented to support this accusation against the pitcher? The fact that he, along with four teammates, once played golf with then-president Donald Trump and posted a picture from the outing on Instagram.
When one parent pushed back against this absurd stance, the two objectors doubled down.
Fortunately, I’m told that the Yorktown High School community sees the absurdity of objecting to accepting the Corbin-signed baseball. Even some liberals say they are appalled, and donations have received a boost as word of the idiotic objection spreads.
Some libs are saying things like “this is what gives Democrats a bad name.” Yes, it is — at least in part.
So maybe, in the context of today’s American, this affair can pass as a feel-good story after all.
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Bet those same complainers would have no issue with something donated by racist Hunter “you my n*****” Biden.
Bet those same complainers would have no issue with something donated by racist Hunter “you my n*****” Biden.
———or they would titter and say, “Tsk, tsk, he’s just being silly.”
What is it H L Mencken said? Sometimes you just want to raise the black flag and....
We have a lot of liberal idiots in No. Va. Many get elected, with Soros money, to key positions from the City Councils on up to the Senate/House.
It’s quite clear our Governing positions are for sale in our nation. So those with cash to throw around are going to “Pick” who runs and who doesn’t, and now equally as much who counts the votes after that’s decided..
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