As you know by now, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred pulled the 2021 All-Star Game and draft from Atlanta.
"Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box," Manfred released in a statement. "In 2020, MLB became the first professional sports league to join the non-partisan Civic Alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the United States. We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game’s unwavering support."
The move came after President Joe Biden said he would support bouncing the game out of the state in protest of Georgia’s new election law, which simply requires voter identification and extends early voting to 17 days. In fact, the MLB cited Biden's statements to support its move.
"Major League Baseball announced on Friday that it will relocate the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft, originally scheduled to take place in Atlanta, to a to-be-determined location. The decision comes a little more than a week after the passage of S.B. 202, a Georgia law that President Joe Biden criticized earlier this week, saying that it will restrict voting access for residents of the state," MLB released last week. "Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that the decision to move the All-Star Game was 'the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport' and was made after consultation with teams, former and current players, the MLB Players Association and The Players Alliance, among others."
Biden, as usual, didn’t let the facts get in the way of his reckless rhetoric. Not to mention his home state of Delaware has far more restrictive election laws than Georgia, including zero early voting days and voter identification requirements.
But while the MLB was the first corporation to make a move based on the advocacy of a Democratic president, many followed with virtue-signaling statements of their own, claiming they care about the "protection of democracy" and the ability to cast a ballot.
"Actions speak louder than words. We're donating $1 million to groups working to defend our democracy and your right to vote. Join us in taking 3 important actions," clothing company Patagonia tweeted.
"I need to make it crystal clear that the final bill is unacceptable and does not match Delta's values," Delta CEO Ed Bastian wrote in a public memo.
"We want to be crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting legislation," Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said.
All of these companies — including the MLB — have major business contracts with the Chinese Communist Party, which has no democracy, no voting, uses slave labor and is currently engaged in genocide against a religious minority.
"He doesn’t have a democratic – with a small 'd' – bone in his body," President Biden said of China's Xi Jinping on March 25, 2021, just one day before the Georgia bill was signed into law.
Woke corporations like to lecture about "values," but through their choice of China over Georgia, they've made those values crystal clear. Not to mention, they all require identification for transactions in or visits to their businesses.
Meanwhile, Stacey Abrams, the woman who caused this whole thing by calling Georgia's new voting law "Jim Crow 2.0," is reaping what she has sown. President Biden happily parroted her false claims and categorization of the law by calling it "Jim Crow on steroids" on ESPN after meeting with her. Hyperbolic language and extreme dishonesty about the law led to an economic backlash, and now she’s acting surprised. If something is truly "Jim Crow 2.0," then it deserves to be harshly countered. This wasn’t it, but Abrams said it was, and the wokists in the corporate corner offices followed through to do something about it.
And who are the real victims here? The very people Democrats claim to care about. The MLB is moving the All-Star game to mostly white Denver and away from mostly black Atlanta. Cobb County, local businesses and people who work in or around Truist Park are set to lose nearly $200 million in badly needed revenue. Worse, under the Left’s definition of "racist" voting laws that require identification, Colorado is in the same category as the Peach State with a voter identification requirement. So what was the point? Heck, even the Atlanta Braves were against the move.
"The Atlanta Braves are deeply disappointed by the decision of Major League Baseball to move its 2021 All Star Game. This was neither our decision, nor our recommendation and we are saddened that fans will not be able to see this event in our city," the Atlanta Braves released in a statement. "The Braves Organization will continue to stress the importance of equal voting opportunities and we had hoped our city could use this event as a platform to enhance the discussion. Our city has always been known as a uniter in divided times and we will miss the opportunity to address issues that are important to our community."
"Unfortunately, businesses, employees, and fans in Georgia are the victims of this decision. We will continue to support the community legacy projects which have been planned and are in process," the statement continues.
Georgia, of course, isn’t racist enough for MLB's Manfred to give up his membership at the highly exclusive and very white Augusta National Golf Course. As Senator Marco Rubio points out, that would require a personal sacrifice. Only the working people get to suffer for this decision.
The problem is, wokeism eventually eats everybody, and China loves to stand by and watch it all happen — especially as Democrats and corporate CEOs choose them over Georgia.