NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio has just decreed that unvaccinated people may not enter restaurants or gyms. Why is this racist? Because, at this writing, an estimated 39 % of black New Yorkers and 53% of white New Yorkers are vaccinated, so that difference is going to amount to an ugly Jim Crow exclusion rate of 14%. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/ What a stunning edict of de facto apartheid from the mayor of the largest city in the US. Racism is of course nothing new to the left. The Ku Klux Klan had its roots and alliances among Democrats, and that historical association is well-known.
The 2021 Major League Baseball All Star game was taken out of Atlanta, a majority black city, and moved to Denver, a majority white city. The announced goal of this year’s All Star game had been to honor baseball legend Hank Aaron, who was tragically killed by – the likeliest cause of his death - the COVID vaccine, an inconvenient fact for the woke left. https://stephenlendman.org/2021/01/coverup-of-what-may-have-caused-hank-aarons-death/ The alleged reason for removing the All Star game from Atlanta was to punish the State of Georgia for its requirement of photo ID in order to vote; it was alleged that black people were unlikely to be able to acquire any photo identification. Thus, the move from Atlanta to Denver was a triple slap to black people – abandoning the planned tribute to one of the greatest athletes in sports history, withdrawing sports fan tourism business from black owned enterprises in Atlanta, as well as the implication that photo ID is somehow too difficult for black people to obtain.
Are any people of color fully spared from the left’s racism? The Cleveland Indians are now the Cleveland Guardians. But why were they the Cleveland Indians in the first place? The Indians’ name was a tribute to the first-ever Native American professional baseball player, Louis Sockalexis, outfielder. Here is Mr. Sockalexis’ photo.
Please tell others about his history, so that it is not so easily forgotten. This is the man whose tribute name, the Cleveland Indians, has been deleted and stolen from Native American culture by the woke (whatever that is supposed to mean) left.
Is the left’s goal to segregate, shun and erase people of color?