UPDATE: As of earlier this afternoon, the Pirates have decided restore Clemente’s sign.
(Yiddish for “a shame.”)
I try to keep politics out of the Bookshelf (I have another blog for that: The Worried Journalist), but with all this anti-DEI BS impacting baseball, I think it’s appropriate to address the situation.
The Pittsburgh Pirates recently removed a marker honoring Robert Clemente and replaced it with an advertisement. Now maybe this has nothing to do with DEI, maybe it’s just a “business decision.” But the optics are bad.
The Los Angeles Dodgers bucked a trend by championship teams and paid (homage) a visit to the white House, to the consternation of many.
Jackie Robinson, whose courage in breaking the color line is undeniable, had the indignity of having his military contributions scrubbed by the Pentagon from its website, along with the Navajo Code Talkers and Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian Marine and one of the six men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima in the iconic photograph. Robinson’s citations have since been restored, but the fact that they were removed in the first place is just another indication of the mean-spiritedness and anti-woke dementia of the current administration.
Given recent conditions, we have to wonder what will happen next Tuesday — Jackie Robinson Day.
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