“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” may have a brand new meaning if the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion brainwashing by Major League Baseball ever catches on with the public. Fans of the sport might go from singing, “Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks, I don’t care if I never get back,” to “buy me How to Be An Antiracist and other books by radical, left-wing hacks, denounce your white privilege, and acknowledge systemic racism against blacks.”
MLB has a social justice website that pushes racialist politics, and it’s just as awful as you’d expect. It features the cult classic, How To Be An Antiracist by huckster Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. There’s another book by Kendi, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. There’s Andrea J. Ritchie’s uplifting tale, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. There’s a critique of the criminal justice system titled The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. There’s also Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.
These books do not have any ideological diversity. They only discuss racial topics from a left-wing, racialist perspective that favors criminals who victimize black people and simplistically boils down all other issues to race. Major League Baseball isn’t supposed to be an extension of today’s race-obsessed, neurotic, and extreme Democratic Party.
But this is the reality we live in now. MLB is a cowardly, spineless organization that has caved to the toxic, left-wing political machine that is plaguing this country. First, they decided to relocate the All-Star Game from Atlanta last year based on the Democrats’ outright lies and fearmongering over Georgia’s new voting laws. The league’s social justice website further pushes fake narratives and debunked claims with a book list that contains predominantly radical race agitators and left-wing neo-segregationists.
It’s the latest example of how the Left truly hates diversity. These books are not representative of how white or black people think about race.
“The MLB and other ‘woke’ organizations continue to show us how one-dimensional they view black people,” Darius Mayfield, the Republican candidate for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, told me. “These organizations play right into the hands of those that want to present us as a monolith group of people devoid of diverse thought and opinion while championing policies and making decisions that continue to handicap black Americans. Works from Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Condoleezza Rice, and Ben Carson would, in fact, help the black population grow in thought rather than continue to suppress our freedoms and opinions.”
Willie Montague, who is running for Florida’s 10th Congressional District in the Republican primary, echoed Mayfield’s sentiments.
“Only one view is allowed in pop culture and the PR wing of the Democratic Party: a leftist view,” Montague told me. “Here we have Dr. Sowell, who is considered one of the … thought leader[s] in analytical economics, and he’s totally sidelined as a black man with the status quo power structures because he’s conservative. A very similar miscarriage of justice has occurred with perhaps the most brilliant and conservative Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas. Thomas’s conservatism negates his black skin to leftist gatekeepers because of their racist beliefs.”
Larry Elder, the former gubernatorial candidate in California and host of The Larry Elder Show, shared Montague’s thoughts about Thomas and scolded MLB.
“It’s no surprise that MLB’s recommended list of books excludes black writers and thinkers like Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and other conservatives,” Elder told me. “For years, Ebony Magazine, the black monthly, has had an annual feature called, ‘The 100 Most Influential Black Americans.’ Not only were the aforementioned writers and scholars excluded, the list also omitted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Irrespective of what one thinks about his views, Thomas, as one of only nine members of the Supreme Court, is, by definition, influential.”
“MLB’s exclusion of black conservative writers continues the long liberal tradition of ideological bigotry and does a disservice by shutting down discussion of crucially important topics such as the welfare state and its impact on the black family; the importance of school choice, and the rise in crime resulting from the false allegation of a ‘systemically racist’ criminal justice system,” he said.
MLB is promoting one side of the political debate in this country. It’s a bad idea. As the baseball leagues emphasize an alleged critical need for diversity, MLB embraces the political monolith that is “woke” ideology. They have absolutely zero interest in diversity or racial equality. They care about getting as many people as possible to support DEI and other toxic left-wing tactical ideas in order to appease their bigoted and implacable ideological overlords.
