MLB Baseball Opening Day

Good thing the Republicans aren't in charge, or they'd have the season canceled.

OK - I'll play. 

Call me a fair weather fan.  I find baseball to be boaring on TV, but more watchable in person.  I am more of a football guy and support local teams.  The White Sox should be pretty good this year, so I will follow them despite the stupid decision by the MLB moving the all star game from a "Blacker" city to a "whiter" city due to "cancel culture" and misstatements of fact. 

If I cancelled all stupidity in my life, why would I visit the LVA forums?

That's not why the game was moved. And "cancel culture" is a profoundly stupid phrase cooked up by conservatives to belittle concerns about racial and other types of injustices.

I'm White, so I haven't ever experienced racial discrimination, but I can only imagine what it must be like to be a Black person in Georgia and have the White folks in charge try to stop me from voting--not just right now but also for the past 150 years.

It scares me when misinformed people say that the voter suppression laws being passed around the country are no big deal. If they can take away one group's rights, they can also take away yours. It always starts small and only affects a few people at first. But antidemocratic fascism is like a snowball rolling down a hill. It grows and picks up speed, frighteningly fast.

Despite repeated requests, little angry man has yet to prove which group is being discriminated against & how. 

Kevin, nobody can change what happened 150 years ago.   It appears you do not want to accept that positives have occurred in regard to racial equality.  We've had a Black POTUS, for God's sake.   Black Supreme Court justices;  now a Black Veep.  My city has a Black mayor and Black city directors, elected positions.   Schools are no longer segregated, and they are led by Black Principals and Superintendents, not to mention Black teachers from elementary to PhD positions in ivy league universities.   Major League sports teams, the music industry and motion picture industry have created wealth for Black Americans, not just the athletes and performers but persons of all races associated with these industries from roadies to ticket sellers to every person listed on those endless list of credits after every movie or televised performance.  The military has been integrated, and there are/have been Black persons of high rank in all branches.  Public places, transportation, businesses, housing, neighborhoods, are no longer allowed to exclude Black people.   These are significant advances.   

Certainly not perfect, but much advanced.   The world will never be so perfect that everyone's life is equal to the other guy's.  Dr. MLK's dream was not going to come true on the day he spoke it.   But it has been heard time and again, and more and more people of every race embrace "content of their character" in their regard of people of all races other than their own. 

Candy

Well, Candy "what appears" to you isn't reality. Obviously, things are better for Black people than they were 150 years ago, 50 years ago, or even 10 years ago. Also obviously, I do in fact "accept" that many positive changes have taken place.

However, only a naive fool would say that Black people in the US are completely equal to White people. One ipso facto proof of that is the recent RepubliQ push to disenfranchise Black voters. And yeah, yeah, yeah, they say those measures are meant to protect election integrity, or some such tommyrot. We all know what the intention and the effects of those laws are.

Y'know, if everything were as hunky and dory as you claim for Black people, then this reprehensible voter-suppression shit wouldn't be taking place. And the fact that it's illegal as hell (violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as the Constitution) should have stopped it before it even got started.

That is, if we lived in a democracy.

Repeated requests for anything whatsoever from you, Tommie-poo, will continue to be ignored.

I stopped reading after this line:

     "I'm White, so I haven't ever experienced racial discrimination,..."

So White's cannot experience racial discrimination?  What about "Irish need not apply".  How about you can't get into Harvard, even though your GPA and SAT's are higher than others of color?   How about, Covid-19 vaccines only available for certain zip codes in Chicago "mass distribution" sites.   How about that Doctor, his wife and his grandchildren in South Carolina.

Please...

I can confidently say that I haven't been discriminated against in any way, shape, or form due to the color of my skin. I doubt that any Black or Hispanic person can say that.

Jphelan, I also was amazed and Kevins goofy comment.  The amazing thing is Kevin's willingness to say such and assinine thing.