Negro League Museum
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They're already calling for him to be fired.
This guy probably doesn't hold a racist bone in his body and definitely wouldn't have gone to a black museum voluntarily if he did.
And he would've been better off not going because then he would have no reason to mention it and would've avoided this incident altogether.
According to one article I read
He tried apologizing and it's only then that it drew attention. You can't win.
>white person simps for blacks, gets his life ruined by blacks in return
Signaling weakness is signaling that you're ready to die. Every animal knows this instinctively except for white people.
In this context "Negro League" isn't a slur, it's what it was called. "Negro" was the PC term for awhile.
The C in NAACP isn't a slur either, although is was for awhile, because that was the PC term at its founding.
Just clearing it up that the way he pronounced it sounded like hard R
But if you say Negro League fast enough, it does sound like hard R so he may not even have said it, but still has to apologize for it.
How dare you use logic like that. The morons complaining can’t piece that together most likely
The Magic Word does its thing yet again.
Clearly he didn’t mean that but it was funny. As a massive baseball fan and amateur historian my favorite negro leaguer would probably be Paige.
Cut the guy some slack, one time at an old job the head of the company was visiting my boss and I meant to say I was going to grab a coke and come back. I accidentally said I’m going to get some cocaine. Thankfully everyone thought it was funny. All that to say he doesn’t deserve to lose his job.
Did it bother you a couple of years back when Baseball Reference started their "Negro Leagues are Major Leagues" astroturfed campaign?
I thought it was such BS, and things like that were the death-by-a-thousand-cuts as to why I went from watching full games daily to stopping from following the sport altogether.
It's one thing to recognize the segregated leagues.
It's quite another to retcon history and pretend the level of play was equivalent to the Major Leagues at the time and retroactively treating 75 year old minor league statistics as canon by incorporating the statistics into the MLB annals as though they are on par, sullying historical records and achievements in the process.
I tuned that out. I know major leaguers would play games against negro league squads and go back and forth so obviously some could’ve been productive in the majors. I felt mlb has done enough considering the best negro league players are in the HOF. Not sure what they think they are doing with this. Also it always makes me curious why Moses Fleetwood Walker isn’t seen as the first black player.
But I agree, don’t mess up the record books. Satchel Paige probably would’ve had some records had he played in the MLB his whole career but he didn’t, and he is still recognized as an amazing pitcher.
I just looked on Baseball Reference, and at least it looks like they took the "Negro Leagues are Major Leagues" propaganda masthead off the home page and the individual player pages.
I'm not denigrating individual Negro League players nor do I know enough about them to comment intelligently.
But it really turned me off that like everything leftists and globohomo do, they rewrote history by smashing together Negro and MLB statistics together in a hamhanded fashion with no respect for statistical integrity just so that they could virtue signal for a season.
Yea. And the crazy thing is that the great negro league players got their due. Some later than others, but still they got recognition. That whole stars thing is beyond ridiculous
Cleveland Indian legend Satchel Paige. Quite refined taste you have.
Absolutely. And he helped the Indians win it all in his 40s. Dizzy Dean had a great quote “if Satch and I could play together we would have the pennant locked up by June and then we could go fishing til the World Series started”
It's retarded. The truth of that statement doesn't make it any less retarded, it just means the woke hysteria surrounding other minorities is all the more fervent.
Why are they calling for teams called "Cheifs" "Warriors" (when their mascot is a native American warrior" or the ones who are specific tribes like the Blackhawks and Seminoles?
If it stopped at the more reasonable requests, then it'd be fine. It rings hallow when they keep pushing for more nonsense.
https://nitter.nl/bubbaprog/status/1654679569117372416
https://archive.is//6QjFY
I'm not even confident that he actually said "nigger".
I just think he put a strange inflection on "Negro", deemphasizing the "O".