This Day In Sports History: Woke Infiltrates Baseball
The Woke Mind Virus.
We laughed when brain-dead celebrities first introduced it. We wept when our government’s biased insistence on a “liberal” arts education spread it to our innocent children. But when it came to America’s institutions, we all naively thought we were safe. Sadly, this all got upended on April 15, 1947, when a young radical named Jackie Robinson decided to stop making baseball about baseball, and to start making it—as usual—all about being woke.
Even though he bore the extremely socialist middle name of “Roosevelt,” leftists still love painting Robinson as just some gifted athlete who wanted to play professionally. They claim no quotes exist indicating his sick desire to tell the hardworking average American they should be ashamed of baseball. But what these number-42-apologists get wrong is that Robinson was already playing in a professional league. And if this other league, whatever it was called, was allowing Robinson to play baseball, what was really behind his insistence in changing the way the National League operated? Was it the 33 percent salary increase? Was it that indefinable CRT buzzword, “equality?”
The indoctrinated Millennials of this world might believe that, but real Americans know the truth: From his early days as a so-called “U.S. Army Lieutenant” who clearly hated everything America the beautiful stood for. He despised America so much he went deliberately out of his way to bat a .387 and steal 13 bases in 47 games to get invited to tryouts by the Dodgers’ general manager and—with that one crafty, underhanded stroke of competence—usher in a new era of baseball where 99.9 percent of players could no longer be openly white.
So this April, when the Rob Reiners and Rob Manfreds of the world ask you to celebrate Robinson’s contribution to “inclusivity,” just remember what they’re really saying: that everything you’ve ever believed in—whether it’s playing baseball in the park with your kids, exercising your right to follow suspicious-looking people around in clothing stores, or keeping just one country club tension-free—is deeply wrong. And don’t you dare let them get away with it.
