Olbermann vs Apartheid Georgia - 3/26: a call for boycott

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Friday March 26, 2021 · 6:08 PM PDT

2021/03/26 · 18:08

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Boycotting Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola and other Georgia-based companies comes later. But the first step to protest Georgia's 21st Century Jim Crow voting laws must be taken in sports, specifically by baseball.

Its annual All-Star Game is scheduled for Atlanta on July 13. But more pressingly, on April 15, the sport will conduct its annual self-congratulation for integrating the major leagues in only their 77th season. It's Jackie Robinson Day - but if the owners will not respond to Georgia's racism by moving the game elsewhere, the players must boycott the Robinson celebrations. Celebrating integration while a state acts to disenfranchise its residents of color is obviously hypocritical and humiliating, but it's worse: Jackie Robinson was BORN in Georgia. He would find nothing to celebrate today, or in July, or on April 15.

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