southsider2k5

The wealth transfer that has happened over centuries because of racism and racist policies is a real thing. If your opponent gets a 50 meter head start in a 100 meter race, you don't get to claim the race was fair because the last 50 meters were run equally. The irony here is that your last sentence was 100% correct, but for 100% the wrong reasons. In 2019 the average white family in the US had almost $200k in wealth. The average black family was $25k. Even if you were able to wave a magic wand to make every single bit of racism in the US disappear, that gap does not because wealth is transferred generationally. These are people who start from behind in wealth, live in substandard neighborhoods, attend substandard schools, with lower funding, and have fewer work opportunities even when of equal qualifications in the job market. This IS a never ending loop that will never go away unless something is done. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/08/the-black-white-wealth-gap-left-black-households-more-vulnerable/

If you don't see the racist undertones here, you don't want to. You might even not be able to understand them because of your upbringing, but that doesn't mean they aren't there, nor can you just handwave them away. Understanding the explicit racism that Robinson experienced and why TA could connect to that is 100% race based. Pretending that racism doesn't exist doesn't fix the problem.

I know they have common franchises, but did they ever play together?

Bravo. For the record THIS is bravery greg.

He absolutely did and appeared to call him a b**** afterwards. Knowing the context, I don't blame TA either. Donaldson Using racist terms should come with anger and a price.

Cool, so if I call you a racist and everyone laughs, no problem, right?

That extra money is paying off.

Do you believe in personal responsibility?

Exactly. He should be able to do anything he wants with no consequences. Where did I hear that before?

How about if he called him David Duke?

Look, if you think that wanting to improve the game for young black males, especially in baseball, is something worth mocking, that is all you need to know about Josh Donaldson.

"Cancel Culture" is a phrase used by people who don't want to be held responsible for anything they do.

I am old enough to remember when people actually believed in personal responsibility.

Look, there is a real chance that Josh Donaldson is trashy enough to not get the ignorance and inherent racism in his statement to TA. He seems like the same douchey frat boy personality who uses any of the other slurs. He definitely is the guy who uses things like this to tweek people, and then play dumb because "he was joking", without understanding what he is really saying. He deserves no benefit of the doubt.

Oh Tim had something to say too. They got broke up pretty quickly.

Dude, if Tony LaRussa is calling you a racist, you really blew it.

Don't worry, MLB will see this as a joke too.

But I was told Yoan wasn't tough enough to play and going to the IL?

Pretty sure TA called him a b**** afterwards too.

It's Hatfields and McCoys now.

Like the extra knee to the back there.

No Sox RP can this year.

Yet still better than any other RF we have.

Engel needs to play with this defense

Harrison almost hit that out. If that doesn't say short porch, I don't know what does.