Proud time to be a Coloradan
High-fives all around! Watching our governor and the mayor of Denver smiling ear to ear celebrating that they have secured the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game! This the MLB decided after those short-sighted legislators in Georgia decided to amend their voting laws. So the millionaire players and owners of MLB decided this action did not reflect “their” values commendable.
So who suffers from this decision? Atlanta (where the game was to take place) the nation’s 4th largest Black-majority city at 52% 22% of which lives below the poverty line. MLB values dictates that the game be moved to Denver, 55% white, 9% Black. It is being reported that prominent members of a “players alliance” told the baseball commissioner that they would not play if the game was held in Georgia. They felt that these newly enacted voting laws discriminated against minorities. So take the game from Atlanta!