Baseball Fans SUPER ANGRY Hispanic American Superstar Sang ‘God Bless America’ at All-Star Game
Last night was the 2013 MLB All-Star game. Ah, America’s past time! Who doesn’t love a good baseball game? And what better way to open up America’s game then with a heartfelt rendition of ‘God Bless America’?
And…wait, a minute. Who is this guy coming out to sing God Bless AMERICA?
Wow! Who is this unAmerican Spanish Mexican spic illegal foreigner terrorist singing ‘God Bless AMERICA’ at a game of baseball, our AMERICAN past time?
Why, it’s New York born, United States citizen of Puerto Rican descent, Marc Anthony!
Yes, that's right. The same dipshits who probably own a couple of his albums (he was a pretty big star a few years back, I know, during the Enrique Iglesias / Ricky Martin phase, and did a popular duet with Jennifer Lopez, I believe) are making racist attacks on the guy for...being a native-born New Yorker singing God Bless America at the All-Star Game.
My God these people are assholes.
Of course, the fact that Anthony is a native New Yorker is irrelevant anyway; even if he wasn't, he's of Puerto Rican descent (still a U.S. Citizen), and even if he wasn't, that STILL shouldn't make any difference.
Even aside from the racism factor, it seems to me that even if he wasn't an American, these morons should be happy to have "foreigners" singing "God Bless America"...it certainly beats having them calling us the Great Satan and so forth...
Frankly, the only reason to be angry about someone singing at a baseball game is if they screw up the words or have a lousy singing voice.
UPDATE: I realize this update is a little late to the game, but I should also note that this incident reminds me of a scene from "Porky's" (yes, that's right, Porky's, the original '80's raunchy lowbrow high school T&A sex comedy).
For those who don't remember (and who could forget such a fine piece of cinematic history?), Tim Cavanaugh is a classic racist redneck hick; Brian Schwartz is a Jewish new kid in town. In the school locker room the following exchange takes place:
Tim: Anybody wanna go fly a KITE with me tonight? I hear it's great weather for flying KITES! I wonder if there's any KITES around here we can fly!
Brian: Hey listen, Cavanaugh. It's not kite, it's KIKE. K-I-K-E, "kike." You know, you're too stupid to even be a good bigot.
I should further note that, oddly enough, this subplot about anti-semitism/racism in the '50's in the South was a more interesting and memorable story than the main T&A/getting laid plot.
I always found it strange that the filmmakers would throw it into the middle of such an otherwise crapfest.
Update x2: As emobile and others have noted in the comments, while most of the tweets (there were plenty more where the ones I posted came from) have either been deleted or left to rot, at least one guy (@Janosek21) has issued several seemingly sincere and respectful apologies instead of just deleting it:
This is my formal apology for a racist tweet. Uneducated and alcohol induced. Not my true feelings. Not meant to offend.
... yes it was stupid and wrong. I apologize
... apologized earlier and ill apologize again. Very uneducated and a big mistake by me.
Good on him.