Yes

by Michael Mansun

Created on: May 01, 2010   Last Updated: May 04, 2010

For those who say this is a racially charged question, you couldn't be more wrong.  I do NOT promote my children watching baseball, but I do encourage my children to play baseball.  I do not promote my children to watch football or basketball either for the same reason as I do not want them watching baseball.  My children are white.  I do not want them to patronize any sport or activity which is predominately ranked with a disproportionate percentage of an ethnic profile.  It sends a sad message to my kids that they have to be black or Latino to play sports, and I do not want them to feel discouraged.

Why are sports so highly ranked with blacks and Latinos.  One reason, affirmative action programs.  College Football and Basketball scholarships favor blacks.  If you cannot play college sports, you probably will have to do something else with your life.  Anyone who says blacks are simply better athletes is a racist.  Blacks have no superior genetic code which makes them better athletes.  Sports is simply promoted highly among blacks.  Whites study other things.  For every black athlete who makes it to the pros, scores find themselves without a degree, without skills, and working for the city sanitation department somewhere.

Latinos in baseball.  Latinos seem to have really dominated the sport.  Where do they come from?  Again,. you have athletes from their home countries entering the US with the intent of playing for a pro team.  Visa expires and they stay anyway.  They have learned they can get around the law.  It's like there are too many Muslims here as doctors now.  Too many Asian engineers.  These people come or a visa is arranged for them so that BIG MONEY can be immediately satisfied with ready talent or skills in the name of becoming nationally or globally competitive, instead of investing in our own natural born citizens to prepare them to be pro athletes, engineers, doctors, etc.

It is easy to just bring in a whole talent pool from another country instead of investing to prepare and promote our own, and then when the ranks get brown with Latinos, to say that it must be because they are better athletes.

We've heard the bullshit for years from big business how important it is to remain competitive in a global economy.  They have set up the system to cut corners, skip steps, and forget about we US citizens who have a vested interest in this country.  We have worked in this country's factories, served in the military, paid lots of taxes, and then the best opportunities are given to foreigners because they are immediately prepared to fill the slot, instead of forcing business, and sports is a business, to cultivate our own.

It is why I am not a patriot.  It is why I do not pay taxes.  It is why I have no pride in saying that I am an American because anybody who can make somebody else rich can get a passport these days.

Yes, there are too many Latinos in baseball, and it is so because it is fast and easy to bring the talent in than to wait until some college kid develops his skills to the point where he can be ready to play.  Even if we didn't have the best in the world, at least we would have our own.  We built this nation, we have stained the battlefields of the world with our native sons blood.  We have paid taxes and have worked for less and less wages as time has passed and have grown bankrupt as individuals and are made to feel ashamed for it then normal because everyone is bankrupt and our heroes do not represent us in our national pastimes because just as we have exported our industries so that a few can get super wealthy fast, we have imported talent so that a few assholes can get rich or stay rich.

Latinos in sports are fine as long as they have a generationally vested interest in this country and they have achieved based on their merit and have not simply been chosen over others based on some artificial promotion system.  But when they are imported and are allowed to stay against immigration laws and are sudden multi-millionaires and are getting paid to endorse products that they say we should buy and they cannot even speak the national language well and have never served in our military or their families have not contributed to this country through the same means or done anything for this country in history, then, NO, they are not role models for my children and they should not be allowed to work here, or so easily become a citizen or get permanent residency and to enjoy the fruits of the labor of the multitudes who sacrificed to build this US system which provides those opportunities.

If you go to many other countries around the world and you try to live there or become a citizen or get a well paid position, they will scoff at you.  They are nationalistic and preserve their scarce opportunities for their own.  You go to a Latino country and try to assimilate, you will be often ignored.  They don't want you there as anything other than a tourist with a credit card in your hand.  Here we have been brainwashed into thinking that we are racists if we say anything.  If these imported athletes were Lily white Germans, it would be OK for real Americans, of any race with a vested generational interest, to stand up in protest.  But as they are brown we are made to feel as if we are racists if we say anything.   Well, I'm saying that baseball doesn't interest me because the players do not represent me.  There is no pride in watching a team win just because the team is based on a city where I live because the players are all from The Honduras.  It's cheating really.

That's all I have to say about it.

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