The headline said that Mr. Manfred “politicized baseball over a law he likely hadn’t examined.”
MLB moved the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta to Denver spurred by the Democratic outcry over Senate Bill 202, which requires voter registration for absentee ballots and bans electioneering, including passing out food and drinks, within 150 feet of a polling entrance, but also expands early voting.
The move came with Democrats decrying the Georgia Election Integrity Act as racist. President Biden has repeatedly compared the measure to the Jim Crow laws of the segregation era.
Atlanta, where nearly 30% of businesses are minority-owned, is expected to lose $100 million with the relocation of the July 13 game to Denver, which is 76% White and 9% Black. Atlanta is 51% Black.
As Democrats increasingly brandish the Jim Crow comparison in the fight over state and national election laws, critics including Black conservatives are challenging the narrative, saying it trivializes the era’s horrific abuses by likening them to standard identification requirements used for everything from boarding an airplane to buying beer.
“Comparing absentee ballot changes and ID requirements to banning Black people from restaurants and drinking fountains is absurd,” Mr. Lancaster said in an email.
Wilfred Reilly, associate political science professor at Kentucky State University, a historically Black college, said the “Jim Crow claim passes through ‘nonsensical’ into offensiveness.”
The Georgia Election Integrity Act expands voting hours but also requires identification for absentee voting, prohibits handing out food and drinks for voters within 150 feet of polling entrances and bans the mobile-voting buses used during last year’s pandemic.
Major League Baseball reportedly plans to relocate the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, sending the Midsummer Classic from a majority-Black metropolis to an overwhelmingly White city in the name of social justice.
McConnell warns private corporations to stop misleading and bullying Americans
~ Leader McConnell
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned the woke corporations in a statement today, threatening them if they continue to join forces with the Democrat Party to bully the American people. He pointed to the Georgia law.
“From election law to environmentalism to radical social agendas to the Second Amendment, parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government,” McConnell said. “Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order.”
Governor Abbott responded to the MLB boycotting of Georgia over the blatant lie, setting a tone today when he refused to throw out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers’ home opening game.
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