Steve Clevenger/Racism in Baseball
Sept 23, 2016 16:34:24 GMT -5
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Post by humanbeingbean on Sept 23, 2016 16:34:24 GMT -5
With all the social unrest going on, and players speaking out positively (Adam Jones) and negatively/disgustingly (Clevenger), do you think baseball players start taking a stand like Kaepernick and other NFL players, or is baseball too different for that to take place? Like how Adam Jones called it an old white man's game, and you can't really be too upset at that label. It isn't far from the truth.
I greatly commend the Mariners for stepping up and suspending Clevenger for the rest of the season without pay, but it's saddening to think that his opinions are probably the same as many other players'. I just hope we see, at some point, minority and more good-natured players coming forward and showing MLB to be far more inclusive than Clevenger would have you think. David Ortiz's comments on Trump recently were a very good starting point, in my opinion, on top of Adam Jones's comments.
I started this in this subforum because of obvious political undertones - I'm extremely liberal, and find Clevenger's statements appalling and even detrimental to baseball itself. When MLB is trying to attract young and black fans, there's no way in hell the Mariners should tolerate that sort of worldview. People say that he has a right to free speech just like Kaepernick, but Colin created publicity for social injustice - Clevenger merely spouted off racist garbage and used Black Lives Matter as reasoning.
I guess I'd just like to see others opinions, then - is MLB facing a racism problem, and how do you think baseball can go about amending it?
I greatly commend the Mariners for stepping up and suspending Clevenger for the rest of the season without pay, but it's saddening to think that his opinions are probably the same as many other players'. I just hope we see, at some point, minority and more good-natured players coming forward and showing MLB to be far more inclusive than Clevenger would have you think. David Ortiz's comments on Trump recently were a very good starting point, in my opinion, on top of Adam Jones's comments.
I started this in this subforum because of obvious political undertones - I'm extremely liberal, and find Clevenger's statements appalling and even detrimental to baseball itself. When MLB is trying to attract young and black fans, there's no way in hell the Mariners should tolerate that sort of worldview. People say that he has a right to free speech just like Kaepernick, but Colin created publicity for social injustice - Clevenger merely spouted off racist garbage and used Black Lives Matter as reasoning.
I guess I'd just like to see others opinions, then - is MLB facing a racism problem, and how do you think baseball can go about amending it?