It Begins… Race-Hustlers Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton Call for Selig to Pull All-Star Game Out of Arizona
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 6:27 PM
It’s on.
Here we go. The race-hustlers believe they’ve latched onto a winner. Never mind the fact that a vast majority (59%) of Americans support Arizona… Never mind that 70% of Arizona voters who live with the problem support the bill… Never mind that the immigrant ID law has been on the books for 70 years… Never mind that the media has completely misrepresented the legislation… Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson want Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to pull the All-Star Game from Phoenix.
The Daily Pitch reported:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson sent a letter Monday to Commissioner Bud Selig to take a stand against the new immigration law in Arizona by pulling the 2011 All-Star Game out of the state.
This is the letter sent today to Selig:
Dear Bud,
The Rainbow PUSH Coalition appeals to Major League Baseball to take a public stand against the recently passed Arizona immigration law. We also urge you to move the scheduled 2011 all-star game from Diamondback Stadium in Arizona unless this law is repealed.
America’s democracy is based on the values of freedom and equality–a level playing field for all of its people. The passage of the Arizona immigration law is an affront to these principles, representing the most divisive and polarizing approach to immigration reform. It is morally reprehensible and will be challenged as unconstitutional in the courts. This law – and the social “movement” that has inspired it – will have a negative impact on all of America’s people.
Major League Baseball is truly an international sport. Well over 25% of MLB players are of Latino descent, and players, coaches, managers, and staff come from many countries other than the United States. From Jackie Robinson’s breakthrough moment in 1947 to today, they make major league baseball one of the world’s most popular sports. They come here legally, documented, with the single goal of showcasing their skills and contributing to the growth and success of Major League Baseball. They should not be subjected to humiliating and illegal harassment.
The Arizona law will have a devastating impact on the integrity and public image of Major League Baseball. Imagine if players or their families are stopped and interrogated by law enforcement – not just during all-star week, but during any games – spring training (where half of the teams locate in Arizona) and regular season – played in Arizona. That would truly be a dark day for Major League Baseball. We urge MLB to take all necessary measures to protect the rights and interests of your players, coaches, staff and their families.
Sincerely,Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
President and Founder/Rainbow PUSH Coalition
For the record… Illegal immigrant families in the United States make more than black families. African Americans were paid a median household income of $32,000 in 2007. In the same year, the median household income for illegal immigrants was $37,000. With national unemployment hovering around 10 percent and black male unemployment at a staggering 17.6 percent, it’s not true that undocumented workers are doing the jobs that Americans won’t do. But, Al Sharpton doesn’t care about black people.
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Jewel commented:
“We urge MLB to take all necessary measures to protect the rights and interests of your players, coaches, staff and their families.”
Sounds a little bit like a threat to me.
As if MLB needs to give me another reason to be PO’d at them.
bill-tb commented:
I wonder when blacks are going to figure it out, the illegals are stealing their jibs.
Opaobie commented:
How many illegal aliens PLAY for MLB teams?
How many illegal aliens OWN MLB teams?
How many illegal aliens BUY SEASON TICKETS (AND with their own LEGALLY EARNED MONEY) to ATTEND MLB games?
How many illegal aliens ATTEND MLB Owners’ parties?
How many MLB players would be willing to give THEIR jobs to illegal aliens?
These race-baiters strike out every time they try to play the game.
ar05075 commented:
Perhaps if you’re trying to relate to the entitlement minded, ‘the world owes me a living crowd’ that follow the race baiting, history bending Jesse and Al show—you should publish the amount of welfare the illegals collect(per family) in comparison. That would probably get thier attention more than jobs.
ar05075 commented:
LOL.!!!
Look at the faces of those two hustlers……they look like one of thier donation checks just bounced.
Joanne commented:
When unemployment insurance runs out, people are not going to be too happy about illegals having jobs that should be going to American citizens.
Kevin commented:
The only thing these two unemployed hucksters ever do is demand everything, and they contribute nothing.
Men of God? Nope. They only use the cloth to set up a non for profit organization to avoid paying taxes.
Jo commented:
We need a civil war in this country. Obama is now using the word Tea-bagger openly. If you go to Urban Dictionary, it means someone who has been homosexually rapped. This Sh*^ needs to stop.
This is a filthy country. I knew when this country had class, it no longer does.
Pat the First commented:
Kevin
May 4th, 2010 | 7:07 pm | #7
They use the “Rev.” to try to legitimize their platforms. They make me sick. As a Christian, I absolutely cringe when I hear the term “Rev.” is used with either of them.
Corporal Vere commented:
Baseball players are overpaid sissies, anyway.
Although, they’re generally more manly than some figure skaters.
myohmy commented:
Are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson looking for aggrieved minorities to milk?
Nahanni commented:
I hope they do get MLB to move the game.
Why?
Because that should just about kill off Major League Baseball. Take a look at the stands at most games-they are 90% empty. Baseball teams have extorted millions of dollars out of the communities that have them, money that could be better used on other things.
Veryconcerned commented:
How do either of these pathetic, detestable clowns have any credibility or power over anyone or anything reputable in this country? They are both a punchline of a punchline to a horrible joke.
M Malone commented:
Maybe Jesse can get an MLB franchise for one of his kids, kind of like that Chicago Bud franchise they got after Daddy threatened to boycott Anheuser Busch.
NC Cop commented:
The reply:
Al? Jesse? Let me put this into words that even you can understand.
Piss off.
Bud Selig
MLB Commissioner
Ex Dem commented:
go ahead-let them pull out. This law is favored by the majority. A majority that buys sports event tickets, tshirts and everything else. Let them lose money hand over fist. The po illegal immigrant crowd is not big and can not sustain the money to be made by them.
Please sports world-if you object to Arizona law, shoot yourself in the foot by boycotting them. Just don’t complain when the rest of the country boycotts YOU and you lose millions and millions. You’ll get exactly what you deserve
Freddy commented:
Looking at the ages of the major race baiters left in the US, it is becoming clear that we are at least reaching the end of what has become their rule of hatred!
The reality is that the vast majority of citizens of the US were never involved, or even supported, any of the race based issues these OLD school baiters crafted their trade around.
As for Selig, best if he simply waits around for a bit before making any decision. Simply reacting, like the owner of the Suns has now decided to do, without waiting to see how this all plays out, can only hurt Major League Baseball.
Teardrop commented:
“America’s democracy is based on the values of freedom and equality–a level playing field for all of its people. ”
Well…..he would be right if “ILLEGAL ALIENS” were actually part of America.
Hence the word ‘illegal’ …as in ‘illegal immigration’.
Come to America legally….no problem…you get the ‘level playing field,’ treatment.
otherwise…..too bad….so sad…go home!!
Opaobie commented:
The Obama-Sharpton-Jackson “Share the Wealth” philosophy:
American citizens who earn wealth and accumulate property are not entitled to keep it or to retain any rights, but deadbeats, dropouts, illegal aliens, and foreign-born (especially MUSLIM) terrorists are entitled to everything they want; and ALL of it must be furnished by American citizens who must finance everything by paying taxes.
Gman commented:
Can we just get the civil war started already and get it over with!?
SeniorD commented:
In other words:
“We’re not Center Stage in this fight. Give us press coverage!”
What losers!
chili palmer commented:
What about the huge windfall MLB gave to brutal Mexico with the World Baseball Classic? There was plenty of cash and prestige in that, Mexico’s brutality v immigrants to its own country cited by Amnesty Int. Where are protests about MLB enabling Mexico, continuing to bring US players down there every year? Non-Mexican players could be beaten, raped, and robbed. What about Rape Trees, Mexican smugglers bring young girls across the Arizona border, rape them and hang their underwear on the trees (find online). Everything is ignored. Let MLB close down the all star game along with its palatial taxpayer subsidized kingdom in Arizona in which Bud Selig’s son in law is installed.
newton commented:
I’ll boycott Arizona…
… when Sharpton apologizes to Steve Pagones for the Tawana Brawley hoax…
… and apologizes to the family of that Korean shop owner who got killed during a Harlem riot years ago, incited by his words…
And I can go on… and on…
The “Rev” Sharpton is no different than Fred Phelps and the Westboro “Baptist Church”.
Jim commented:
Now we get to see if Major League Baseball folds like a cheap tent, ***cough**** NFL
Chippy commented:
We need for lil Barry to takeover Major League Baseball. He can then put a rule into effect that all major league players must throw like him
gus commented:
The WAR is coming. When race hustlers seek to punish a state for FOLLOWING THE LAW we have problems. The WAR is coming.
We didn’t start the fire.
kansas commented:
bill-tb
May 4th, 2010 | 6:45 pm | #2
I wonder when blacks are going to figure it out, the illegals are stealing their jobs.
Jobs? That’s funny. I’m thinking reparations. Just cut the check cracker.
Opus #6 commented:
I expect Gibbs to stand up tomorrow and brag about how he and Obama have their “boots on the throat” of Major League Baseball.
If MLB knuckle under to their threats, I will hold that grudge to my dying day.
kansas commented:
Dear Bud,
Most Americans support the decision in Arizona to enforce an already existing law. If you pull the All Star Game out of Arizona, I am going to encourage a boycott. No TV, no drinkie no beer, no buy baseball products.
Thanks
Tea Party Supporter
LarryG commented:
Malkin on Mexico
1. The Arizona law bans sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers, makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to complete and carry an alien registration document, and allows the police to arrest immigrants unable to show documents proving they are in the U.S. legally. If those rules constitute the racist, fascist, xenophobic, inhumane regime that the National Council of La Raza, Al Sharpton, Catholic bishops and their grievance-mongering followers claim, then what about these regulations and restrictions imposed on foreigners?
– The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” How’s that for racial and ethnic profiling?
– If outsiders do not enhance the country’s “economic or national interests” or are “not found to be physically or mentally healthy,” they are not welcome. Neither are those who show “contempt against national sovereignty or security.” They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care.
– Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years’ imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country (see, for example, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt — a fugitive from deportation for eight years who is awaiting a second decision on her previously rejected asylum claim).
– Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations. Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens’ arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities.
– Ready to show your papers? Mexico’s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.
All of these provisions are enshrined in Mexico’s Ley General de Población (General Law of the Population) and were spotlighted in a 2006 research paper published by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy. There’s been no public clamor for “comprehensive immigration reform” in Mexico, however, because pro-illegal alien speech by outsiders is prohibited.
Consider: Open-borders protesters marched freely at the Capitol building in Arizona, comparing GOP Gov. Jan Brewer to Hitler, waving Mexican flags, advocating that demonstrators “Smash the State,” and holding signs that proclaimed “No human is illegal” and “We have rights.”
But under the Mexican constitution, such political speech by foreigners is banned. Noncitizens cannot “in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.” In fact, a plethora of Mexican statutes enacted by its congress limit the participation of foreign nationals and companies in everything from investment, education, mining and civil aviation to electric energy and firearms. Foreigners have severely limited private property and employment rights (if any).
As for abuse, the Mexican government is notorious for its abuse of Central American illegal aliens who attempt to violate Mexico’s southern border. The Red Cross has protested rampant Mexican police corruption, intimidation and bribery schemes targeting illegal aliens there for years. Mexico didn’t respond by granting mass amnesty to illegal aliens, as it is demanding that we do. It clamped down on its borders even further. In late 2008, the Mexican government launched an aggressive deportation plan to curtain illegal Cuban immigration and human trafficking through Cancun.
kansas commented:
Obama is trying to foment a civil war anyway. He said he wanted to be Lincoln. I don’t think he would hesitate to use the military to harm Americans. He’s been busy trying to build a case, it’s just that those dang Muslims keep trying to blow s**t up.
gus commented:
The game is in ANAHEIM this year.
By next year, LIBTARDS will be irrelevant.
Greg commented:
Jesse and the Rev. Al prefer being on the race baiting gravy train to preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When was the last time you heard either of them mention the Savior?
bg commented:
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not many, if any, Blacks i know have any respect for either one of
those clowns, and Obama is slowly but surely joining their rank..
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IlliniGuy commented:
Jesse’s “Operation Rainbow Putsch” priceless!!!
Opaobie commented:
gus, at the rate Obama is destroying America, by next year, ANAHEIM will be part of MEXICO.
Greg, they both use Jesus’ name in vain all the time, but I get your point.
Derak commented:
Al, Jesse. You ain’t part of the “La Raza” they’s been talkin’ about. Youse guys be outside their notion of “the Race”. But good try….
bg commented:
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here you go A & J..
debate what this guy says @ the 3:18 to 8:28 mark..
Ted Hayes lets Obama know about being black: Obama is
like a Wiley Devil stealing the soul/legacy of black people..
[had to correct the title, Hayes did not say white,
and video #3 just might knock your socks off..]
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wanumba commented:
Before all this, was sitting around chatting and the subject of sports came up – and guys were saying they weren’t buying season tickets any more – business was down and they needed to cut the luxuries. THat was from those who still had work, how many unemployed are going to be buying season tickets this year? How many will be buying A ticket this year? Not as many as last year, that’s a fact.
The owners of sports teams are STILL haughty business as usual, with demanding huge taxpayer subsidies for their bloated operations. Party’s OVER and they don’t GET it.
Fine! Insult the fans, go bankrupt and don’t come whining and begging for handouts later.
Sandy commented:
Sharpton and Jackson seem to be working against the best interests of their constituancies. With Black unemployment at record levels shouldn’t they be working to get jobs for Black people? Instead it appears to be an epidemic amongst the Dems–to work against the people you represent in order to give Obama what he wants.
xiphos commented:
Two minority hustling pimps.
Tom H commented:
Looking from afar (Aust.) it seems that those protesting about this law are upset because their drug supply will soon be compromised!
Chisum commented:
Democrats’ Worst Fear Is About To Come True
The core of Democratic Party political strategy is falling apart. As reported by The New York Times, Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races:
Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
And these candidates are seeking and getting Tea Party support:
The black candidates interviewed overwhelmingly called the racist narrative a news media fiction. “I have been to these rallies, and there are hot dogs and banjos,” Colonel [Alan] West, the candidate in Florida, said. “There is no violence or racism there.”
The narrative of Tea Party racism has been a contrived political tactic from the start, launched and perpetuated by Democratic Party operatives and their mouthpieces in the media and left-wing blogosphere.
Their worst fear is that the race card will fail, and they will have to defend their ruinous policies.
And that worst fear is about to be realized. In November.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/democrats-worst-fear-is-about-to-come.html
oldguy commented:
Leave the border open for a few more years, until all the criminals have left Mexico, then all law abiding Americans will move to Mexico. They enforce the border down there.
oldpa commented:
As a professional clown, I would like to ask Veryconcerned(comment #14) and bg(comment #37) to refrain from calling these two racist bigots CLOWNS