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FROM Major American national sports are crumbling for Donald Trump and the Republicans. Football and the NFL jumped into the presidential campaign last summer when the wave of protests broke out on “Black Lives Matter” following the assassination of George Floyd. On every field, football players knelt against social injustice:
– We must stand with our backs straight, with a greeting or with our hands on our hearts. There are other things you can protest against, but not our American flag: NO KNEELING!Trump tweeted along the way, but to no avail.
The biggest television sport rallied for what was to be by far the largest turnout in American history, and a crushing defeat for the incumbent president.
Now major baseball continues on a new political brand:
- The season’s biggest sporting event has moved out of Georgia in protest of the state’s controversial new election law.
It’s another loss of face for Donald Trump and a victory for Barack Obama, who has long fought for baseball as a tool for social change:
– Boycott baseball, Trump urges his supporters, but the wind over the United States is no longer blowing in his direction.
BY This is a historic battle for new and stricter electoral laws with the two former presidents on each side. After Democrats in last year’s presidential election outnumbered Republicans by more than 7 million in total votes, Republicans are trying to introduce stricter new electoral laws in states where they have the majority.
Georgia is the first out. It was here that Jo Biden surprisingly won in November as the first Democratic presidential candidate since 1992.
The distance to Donald Trump, after multiple polls, was just 11,779 votes, and it was central to Trump’s mad campaign to reverse the US presidential election. “The Big Lie” became the name of his denial of the election result. Exactly that has a dark historical reference, but it was also democracy that was at stake in the United States for a few weeks.
Ugly blow for Trump
ALT Trump’s uproar over alleged widespread deception in Republican-ruled Georgia led to the reelection of senators from that state two months later.
So the Democrats mobilized so well in the big cities that the Republican Party lost both Senate seats and a majority in the Senate.
It was a total failure for both the party and Donald Trump.
Brutal TV numbers
NEVERTHELESS left the Republicans with the political majority in the state itself, and has now used this to change the election rules in a way that Democrats believe restricts the voting rights of citizens:
– This is Jim Crow on steroids, was President Joe Biden’s feature of Georgia’s new election law.
“Jim Crow” was originally a derogatory nickname for black Americans, and it became the term for the gradually hated voting rules in the southern states beginning in 1870 that reduced the ability of blacks to exercise the right to vote that received after the abolition of slavery in the United States. USA.
The last of these racial rules disappeared through the fight for civil rights in the 1960s. When the ugly term “Jim Crow” is used again to formulate new rules on the right to vote, it speaks to the sentiments in this discussion.
And about how important American elite sports have become in politics.
BY When the Republican majority in Georgia last week passed practical austerity measures to make it harder for city dwellers to exercise their right to vote, Democrats responded by calling for national action.
The call was quickly heard by the management of the major professional baseball (MLB) series, which in protest canceled the traditional “All Star Match” to be played in Georgia’s capital Atlanta on July 13.
This game is called the “Summer Classic” and is an annual landmark in the American national sport of baseball. Hitting a political party with such a powerful tool is something completely new in American sports.
– New steps in «koko-land»
TO The action coming in baseball shows how strong the backlash is now against the new election law in Georgia. While the sport has a long history as a fighter for equal rights in the United States, it is basketball that during the Trump period has spearheaded social action.
When football followed suit last summer, baseball and MLB were occasionally criticized for failing in their historic position as a clear social player. This is a sport with significant South American importance, but where American national stars are often white and hail from rural areas.
Now, however, there was no longer any doubt. With the new electoral laws, the sport made a strong comeback:
– Major League Baseball supports the fundamental right to vote for all Americans and opposes reducing the number of ballot boxes.said MLB boss Rob Manfred as he patted Atlanta as the All Star game organizer:
– This is the best way to show the values of sport., mind have.
And then we move on to Barack Obama.
BY Obama has long been a champion of the sport’s social profile. It was he who last year spearheaded the campaign for the centennial of “The Black League” and highlighted how this sports work had paved the way for human rights in the United States.
And it was Barack Obama who paid tribute to baseball legend Hank Aaron in January when one of the sport’s greatest died at the age of 86:
– He is one of the strongest people I have ever metObama said, recalling how Aaron had to fight his way into his sport just because he was black:
– As the son of Jim Crow from the southern states, Hank dropped out of school and joined the “Black League.” When he finally entered the major leagues and began chasing Babe Ruth’s records, they sent him racist letters and death threats. Letters he reread decades later just to remind himself not to be surprised or hurt.Obama spoke about the baseball star who characterized the fight for civil rights in the 1960s.
HANK AARON he held the record for the number of “home runs” until 2007. But since new record holder Barry Bonds was a doping suspect, Aaron is still considered by experts to be the leader of the sport.
He moved to Atlanta in 1966 and played for the local Braves, the club that should have hosted this great game in July. It was in Georgia that he completed his home run record. It gives Hank Aaron great symbolic power in discussing the state’s new election law, something Barak Obama emphasized in a tweet message yesterday:
– Congratulations to MLB for defending the rights of all citizens. There is no better way for American sports to honor the great Hank Aaron, who always led by his own example.Obama wrote.
It is a severe blow to Donald Trump that he must see another of the national sport choose the side of the opponents.
EXACTLY the political actions of American football rose to prominence in the run-up to the presidential elections to mobilize for the victory of the Democrats. The battle over individual state voting rules has just begun.
In Georgia, MLB’s decision has been followed by the largest private company in the state. Both Coca-Cola and Delta Airline have harshly criticized the new electoral law:
– Boycott baseball and all active businesses that interfere in free and fair elections. Do you listen to Coke, Delta and everyone else? Donald Trump tweeted through the Twitter account of his political action committee Save America.
But that salvation certainly no longer comes with him.
For now, a painful loss awaits Obama.
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Tackled by the noise of football
