Just hours after Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West team was stripped of its Little League World Series title, the White House stood by the boys.
The Jackie Robinson West team became the first all-black team to win the United States Little League Championships in the summer of 2014. The urban team’s victory — amid a deadly summer marked by gun violence — won the hearts of many, including the president, who invited the team to the White House. Their dramatic triumph ended in scandal on Wednesday when Little League International concluded that coaches had knowingly falsified records in order to include ineligible players who lived outside the team’s residential boundaries. The players apparently did not know.
“The president is proud of the way that they represented their city and the way they represented the country,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “The fact is, you know, some dirty dealing by some adults doesn’t take anything away from the accomplishments of those young men.”i know some will say or think that i see to much discrimination but i don't hear any other plausible reason for the multitude of things that are happening all around us and to us to deny some level of racism isn't involved and bringing out the buzz words race card etc. doesn't disqualify the facts in some case on video with audio or printed word or other incidents by the same people showing propensity as long as one side denies and the other says it's so there will be no justice or peace for us not them so they have no incentive to stop the madness and so the beat goes on.
IMO they are punishing the kids and the league and those of us who take pride in our young Black Men. just like the team's namesake they are discriminating if they were serious they could have punished the coaches not children, pretty sure they didn't call a meeting with the kids to get their okay.
