Jesse Jackson criticizes MLB

[BAMAPHIN 22]

Jesse Jackson criticized Major League Baseball on Thursday for sending investigators to the hometowns of umpires to ask neighbors questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan.

"Major League Baseball has done a disservice to its progressive social history by equating southern whites with white supremacists," Jackson said in a statement. "I am surprised the professional league which helped change social attitudes in all sports leagues about segregation, by championing Jackie Robinson, would make such a destructive move."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/01/31/jessejackson.umps.ap/index.html

 

[DonShula84]

Jesse standing up for the white man, I like it.