Rainbow Pushing Too Hard
May 13th, 2007Jesse Jackson asked for a meeting with the Atlanta Braves organization over race and got it. I’m asking what on Earth would compell a man to such stupidity and have no answer.
But the Rainbow Coalition knows the difference, and on Monday members of the organization sat down with members of Atlanta’s front office, including GM John Schuerholz and assistant GM Frank Wren. Why Atlanta? Because the Braves were one of two big league teams not to have a single African-American player on their opening day roster. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
“The team slipped … down to [no African-Americans]; it wasn?t something that just happened,” [Southern Regional Director Joe] Beasley said Monday afternoon. “I think it was a lack of diligence on the part of the Braves to recruit African-American players. There’s not diminished enthusiasm for African-Americans playing baseball. It’s simply the opportunity hasn’t presented itself.”
What nonsense. What a waste of an organization’s time, of two organization’s time, and what a wreck the modern civil rights movement has become if its idea of a big deal is “the Atlanta Braves don’t have enough black players” as if Hank Aaron had never played for that organization.