The Jackie Robinson West Little League Team went all the way to the Little League World Series (LLWS) United States Championship last year, much to the thrill of Social Justice Warriors who, of course, aren’t into baseball, but are into celebrating the victory of an All African-American Team. (And if it were made up of transgendered illegal aliens, the SJW’s would have been even happier.)
The problem is, the Jackie Robinson West Team cheated, and several, possible most, of its players were ineligible to play on their team. And so, the Little League organization stripped them of their title and awarded their championship to a team that didn’t cheat.
So, basically, a bunch of officials broke the rules to give African-Americans an unfair advantage over people of other races; sounds an awful lot like Affirmative Action.
Anyway, of course Jesse Jackson and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel have decided that denying the cheaters their title was “racist” (of course), and they are celebrating the boys and giving them meaningless championship rings.
The forgotten man… or forgotten boys in this case… are all the teams that actually played by the rules and were denied a fair shot because of the cheating committed by the ‘Jackie Robinson West’ Team. The Civil Rights Progressives apparently don’t care that they are sending the message that cheating is a behavior that should be rewarded and celebrated when black people do it.
It amazes me that liberals do not see how having a lower standard of behavior for blacks is a form of racism.
I wonder who Rahm and Jesse are shaking down for the cost of these rings?
I gotta say…Publicly giving a kid a fake/pretend championship after his team cheated, is child abuse. It warps the kid, mentally, morally, socially.
“The Civil Rights Progressives apparently don’t care that they are sending the message that cheating is a behavior that should be rewarded and celebrated when black people do it.”
Ahh, I kinda disagree. I think they do care; in fact, they care so much because that is exactly the message they want to send: whitey, the man, etc. is always going to cheat you, so it is better to cheat him first. You want something in life – just take it!
I heard what some of the kids had to say (and no doubt they were prompted by their adult leaders) “Well, it doesn’t matter, because we know we won, our parents know we won, our coaches know we won, that’s all that matters.”
Yea, that they won by cheating doesn’t matter. Nor that they cheated OTHER teams doesn’t matter one bit. That’s real great sportsmanship. (/snark)
If they won by cheating (and apparently they did) – No, they didn’t win.
Maybe it was “the adults” who cheated. Maybe “the adults” did a terrible wrong to the kids and let them down. But no, they didn’t win.
Games have rules. If your “win” is by major violations: no actually, you didn’t win.
I have noticed some professing that is was the team officials and/or the parents that were cheating and the kids weren’t aware. I can assure you that the kids were very aware of the cheating. The officials/parents were simply very willing enablers. I have been involved in children’s sports my whole life as a coach, and I say without a doubt the children knew they were doing wrong too. They are not innocent victims. They didn’t speak up.
The thing you must understand about liberals is that they have a world view that must, MUST I say, be true, and they will do anything, ANYTHING, to achieve it, even if it means declaring something to be true that quite simply can’t be.
Just look at anything a liberal supports and you will see evidence of it.
When I see the Patriots stripped of their Superbowl title and Tom Brady forced by the NFL to turn in his fourth Superbowl ring after that Deflategate debacle, THEN I’ll see some consistency in who gets punished for cheating.
Oh, and I hope that the board is investigating other little league teams as well. If the board is going to be consistent, they should make sure other teams weren’t cheating in the 2014 season as well.
If this happened to an all-white team, would there be as much of a controversy? Probably not.
I’m getting tired of some people who act like melanin is an excuse to say and do whatever they want.
@ILoveCapitalism #5: bingo
Do you recall the Asian or Latin American team that lost the Little League World Series years ago because of cheating? They put on players that were over the age of 12. I guess this Chicago team didn’t recall that little bit of history and believed they could slide by.
Like the democrats argument that non Asian minorities are too stupid to get ID for Voter ID I am inclined to believe these kids where not capable of knowing the rules. The guy that whistleblew has been getting death threats despite having a paper bag colored wife. There have been multiple teams striped of the title in the past including the Taiwanese team and the one that had MEN from the Dominican republic on it.
I was just joking with someone about the new female Thor and black captain America that the hammer will transform into a tampon and the captains new arch rivals will be the Klansman (Power turn into Sen (D)Strom Thurmond) and Low Expectations Man (catchphrase you 2 stupid 2 get ID)
I’m actually heartened by this story because there were enough people willing to acknowledge the importance of rules, a level playing field, and that injustice is colorblind. I’m glad there were consequences. While I’m bothered by the cheating, I’m more annoyed that the Jackie Robinson West team was celebrated not so much for their victory but for their racial designation. And the behavior of adults during the season and during and after the investigation proves that winning wasn’t really the most important goal, thus being stripped of their official title is (to them) not very meaningful.
Where is rusty now? Guess he is silent because our side is right and his is wrong.
I wouldn’t call the other teams “forgotten,” given that the teams JRW beat were awarded their respective titles for each playoff.
As for the progs, I expect they don’t think it’s “real” cheating, along the same lines of “rape-rape” or Brian Williams defending his actress daughter’s porn scene by saying “it’s not like anyone was killed.” Or “fake but accurate” for that matter.