Arizona All Star Game: Boycott or Knock It Out of the Park? Interview with ...
Sports writer Dave Zirin , among others , has taken Latino players like Adrian Gonzalez to task for not holding to their earlier promises to boycott the game.In an interview with AP’s Litke last week, Major League Baseball Players Association spokesperson Greg Bouris backed off any action, but declared, “we think the All-Star game is a chance to celebrate the contribution of all baseball players — including our international players.”
Which means what, in terms of the All Star game?
Will Selig or ball players like Adrian Gonzalez hold a press conference before the game and take a stand on SB 1070?
Will Selig or Bouris ask former All Star legend and Sonora, Mexico native Fernando Valenzuela–or even Arizona’s 94-year-old former governor Raul Castro–to throw out the first ball in a special ceremony recognizing the legacy of Mexican and Latino players?
On the 60th anniversary of his historic role as the first Latino in an All Star game, will Chico Carrasquel’s legacy be publicly honored or recognized? Will the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum be promoted?
In the spirit of Roberto Clemente, will Selig and the MLBPA donate to immigrant rights and education organizations in Arizona–like UNITE AZ inside the park, and PUENTE, outside the park?
I asked Dr. Carlos Muñoz , the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department in the nation and former ball player, about his views on the All Star game.
JB: Are you planning on attending or watching the All Star game, and describe your own connection to baseball and the history of Latino ball players?
CM : I love the game of baseball. I played it during my youth, coached little league baseball, and played it again after I retired, as an infielder in the over 60 Men’s Senior Baseball League (MSBL). I won’t attend the All Star game, but will watch it on TV.
J B: How do you view two of the planned strategies around the All Star game: One of the original boycott groups in Phoenix, Puente, is still calling on players to boycott and will be holding protests at Chase Field in Phoenix. Another immigrant rights organization, Somos America, is sponsoring Unite AZ, a move to ask ball players to wear a white ribbon in protest of Arizona’s SB 1070 law. CM: I understand and sympathize with Puente’s boycott of the game and request for Latino Players to also boycott it because I also oppose the racist SB1070 law. But I think the Somos America strategy is more effective. If Latino ballplayers wear white ribbons, it will have more of an impact. The TV cameras will ignore the protest outside the stadium, they can’t ignore the white ribbons.
Positive Effects Of Mexican Immigration - News
Damien Cave's story in the New York Times on changing trends in Mexican emigration to the United States is a true blockbuster. There are many reasons why illegal immigration into the United States is down sharply -- new punitive laws in American states
And a year since the first boycott calls were issued, Arizona's imprint on state's rights immigration maneuvers has spread to the baseball-playing arenas in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Indiana. The response from Major League Baseball Players
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Pajamas Media » Nice DREAM: On Immigration, Dem Promises Become Lies
A regular reader of mine — a self-described white conservative who wants to beef up border enforcement and limit all immigration — tells me that “most anti-immigration activists regard the ‘dream act’ as one gigantic loophole.”
That’s funny. In what I regard as a healthy development, more and more Hispanics have to come see the Democrats’ handling of the issue as one gigantic scam.
C’mon. It’s no coincidence that the DREAM Act is back on the congressional agenda just as President Obama is beginning his “kiss and make up” tour with Hispanic voters in the hopes that they will turn out to vote for him in 2012.
Their support is hardly a foregone conclusion. Many Latinos are disappointed and disillusioned with Obama and his administration over immigration. They see the president as too eager to compromise, and too desperate to show white voters that he “feels their pain” over illegal immigration (he has deported nearly a million people since taking office).
So Obama needs to talk fast if he has any hope of stopping Latinos from going the way of the independents who have already deserted him.
What could he offer them? Refried Dreams.
He’s set to reheat and serve up the DREAM Act, which would grant a pathway to legal status to undocumented students who go to college or join the military. Many Latinos support the idea, and they might be inclined to give Democrats credit for pushing it.
They should read the fine print. Senate Democrats already scuttled the bill once before, when five of them — Max Baucus of Montana, Jon Tester of Montana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas — bolted from party leaders and voted against cloture during the lame duck session in December.
Now the bill has been reintroduced, and it’s hard to see how the outcome of this vote will be any different.
Back in December, if those five Democratic votes had gone the other way, the DREAM Act would have gone to the floor for a vote and probably passed. Even if the Republicans had tried to launch a filibuster, it would have likely have failed. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had the 60 votes to pass the bill.
At first, I was furious at Reid and President Obama for losing those votes. I thought to myself: “You’re telling me that Reid, as Senate majority leader, doesn’t have the power to twist arms, offer incentives, or make threats to get five measly votes? Or that President Obama, if he were so inclined, couldn’t do the same? They did a good job of rustling up strays during the health care debate. But then, there was an issue that Democratic leaders actually cared about.
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