{"id":1716032,"date":"2022-10-29T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1716032"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:06:24","slug":"associated-press-takes-issue-with-lack-of-u-s-born-black-players-in-world-series-attempts-to-stir-up-racial-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/associated-press-takes-issue-with-lack-of-u-s-born-black-players-in-world-series-attempts-to-stir-up-racial-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press Takes Issue With Lack of U.S.-Born Black Players in World Series, Attempts to Stir Up Racial Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fassociated-press-takes-issue-with-lack-of-u-s-born-black-players-in-world-series-attempts-to-stir-up-racial-controversy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1716032&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Associated Press and writer Ben Walker took issue with the fact that they expect there to be no US-born black players in the upcoming World Series that pits the Houston Astros against the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1084\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros1.png 1084w, https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros1-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros1-768x388-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros1-750x378-1.png 750w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houston Astros via MLB YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In an article titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20221026170705\/https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/World-Series-Black-players-Astros-Phillies-f7768955507758abf3af00552d4ba9b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No US-born Black players on expected World Series rosters<\/a>,\u201d Walker wrote, \u201cTo be sure, Houston\u2019s Jose Altuve and Philadelphia\u2019s Jean Segura are among scores of Latin players helping keep big league rosters diverse. But for the first time since 1950, shortly after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier, there project to be no U.S.-born Black players in this World Series. Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then did what media outlets have been doing for ages when they want to spin a narrative, they go to \u201cexperts\u201d to speak for them. In this case, Walker sought out Bob Kendrick, the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum who told him, \u201cThat is eye opening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is somewhat startling that two cities that have high African American populations, there\u2019s not a single Black player,\u201d Kendrick added. \u201cIt lets us know there\u2019s obviously a lot of work to be done to create opportunities for Black kids to pursue their dream at the highest level.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Phillies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1903\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Phillies.png 1903w, https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Phillies-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Phillies-1340x674-1.png 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Phillies-768x386-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Phillies-750x377-1.png 750w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Phillies-1200x603-1.png 1200w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philadelphia Phillies via MLB YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/2022\/10\/jason-whitlock-explains-why-aaron-judges-record-breaking-62nd-home-run-was-ruined-and-how-its-a-symptom-of-a-destroyed-american-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Whitlock Explains Why Aaron Judge\u2019s Record Breaking 62nd Home Run Was Ruined And How It\u2019s A Symptom Of A Destroyed American Culture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not satisfied with just one expert to spin his narrative, Walker also got comments from Richard Lapchick, the Director of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.<\/p>\n<p>He told him, \u201cIt\u2019s been a story that\u2019s been ongoing since the late 1980s, the decline of Black baseball players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To hit this point home, Walker then cited Lapchick\u2019s study that notes the number of black players on opening day rosters in Major League Baseball declined to 7.2% from 7.6% last year. Walker went on to state this percentage \u201cmarked the lowest since study data was first collected in 1991, when 18% of MLB players were Black.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1090\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros.png 1090w, https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros-768x387-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Houston-Astros-750x378-1.png 750w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houston Astros via Houston Astros YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aside from relying on experts, Walker would make it clear he was trying to create a racial controversy as he wrote, \u201cMLB had 38% players of color on opening day rosters, including Altuve, Yordan Alvarez, Jeremy Pe\u00f1a, Yuli Gurriel, Cristian Javier and Framber Valdez of the Astros and Segura, Ranger Su\u00e1rez and Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez of the Phillies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-64 p Component-p-0-2-55\">He then asserted, \u201cMany Afro Latino players embrace Black identity, yet perhaps not for the same reasons that Black U.S. players do. Race and skin color hold a different currency in places like the Dominican Republic, Panama, Cuba and Belize.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ranger-Suarez.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1053\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ranger-Suarez.png 1053w, https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ranger-Suarez-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ranger-Suarez-768x384-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ranger-Suarez-750x375-1.png 750w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranger Su\u00e1rez via Baseball on Fanatics View YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/2022\/09\/former-los-angeles-angels-manager-joe-maddon-believes-analytics-is-taking-over-baseball-their-impact-or-authority-is-exceeding-that-of-a-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Former Los Angeles Angels Manager Joe Maddon Believes Analytics Is Taking Over Baseball: \u201cTheir Impact Or Authority Is Exceeding That Of A Coach\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The whole narrative is much like the narrative surrounding any and all other institutions in the United States. There are not enough black people playing baseball and things need to change so there is equity.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter if there are better players out there that don\u2019t happen to be black. Major League Baseball and its teams must increase the amount of black players regardless of whether or not they are the best players.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frambler-Valdez.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1054\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frambler-Valdez.png 1054w, https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frambler-Valdez-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frambler-Valdez-768x385-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frambler-Valdez-750x376-1.png 750w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frambler Valdez via MLB YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>YouTuber John Matrixx reacted to Walker\u2019s narrative saying, \u201cThe media, they always try to victimize black Americans that\u2019s why they wrote that article. They are hoping that some black Americans will read that article and say, \u2018Man, we\u2019re victims.\u2019 But it\u2019s kind of hard to do that with Latino black players. They don\u2019t look at things like victimhood. They don\u2019t. But the woke sports media has been doing this for way, way too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n<div class=\"video-player youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not only does Matrixx point out the narrative, but he blows it up as well. He explained why there aren\u2019t as many black Americans playing baseball, \u201cWhen I was a kid growing up black kids played baseball. You know what happened? Michael Jordan happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the reason why you really don\u2019t see black kids really playing baseball now,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cBecause in the 1980s Michael Jordan came along black kids started picking up the basketball. They did. And that was really kind of the downfall of black American kids playing baseball if you ask me, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577-224x300-1.jpg 224w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jordan at Boston Garden during the 1987 NBA season Photo Credit: Steve Lipofsky at basketballphoto.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http: \/>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/2022\/10\/nhl-embraces-anti-white-racism-says-they-have-too-many-white-employees-aims-to-change-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHL Embraces Anti-White Racism, Says They Have Too Many White Employees, Aims To Change That<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the woke sports media running this narrative, it\u2019s also the leagues. Major League Baseball is funding an organization called the Players Alliance to specifically increase involvement in the sport with black people.<\/p>\n<p>This narrative was recently pushed by the National Hockey League when they released their <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.nhl.bamgrid.com\/images\/assets\/binary\/335880796\/binary-file\/file.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAccelerating Diversity &#038; Inclusion\u201d report<\/a> that claims the organization\u2019s teams are too white and the league plans to make changes to reduce the percentage of white people that work for them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Tavares-and-Calle-Jarnkrok.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Tavares-and-Calle-Jarnkrok.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Tavares-and-Calle-Jarnkrok-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Tavares-and-Calle-Jarnkrok-768x410-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Tavares-and-Calle-Jarnkrok-480x256-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Tavares-and-Calle-Jarnkrok-600x320-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Tavares-and-Calle-Jarnkrok-750x401-1.jpg 750w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Tavares and Calle Jarnkrok via NHL YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Discussing the report, the NHL\u2019s Executive Vice President of Social Impact, Growth, and Legislative Affairs said, \u201cIt says that we are where we expected to be, but now we have the facts to back it up. I think the one area that we are feeling positive about is that 38% of our workforce are women. We\u2019ve done a lot of work to improve in that area, and it\u2019s very consistent with our current female fan base of 40%. And so that\u2019s a great benchmark. Having said that we know we have work to do with women of color and we are leaning in to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cI think the thing you should take away from the Workforce Study is that it is a progressive outlook on how you begin to manage your talent. It is progressive in that it\u2019s a self-identified report. So of our 4200, approximately 4200 employees across the league and the clubs, 67% of our employees participated in it and this is how they self-identified. And we will take this benchmark every two years and measure our progress over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The NHL\u2019s first internal demographic study found its workforce to be overwhelmingly white.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Davis, NHL EVP of social impact, growth and legislative affairs, says seeing the numbers is a first step toward fixing the problem.<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWhyno?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@swhyno<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ufH2itfiip\">https:\/\/t.co\/ufH2itfiip<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OziGR3nrR4\">pic.twitter.com\/OziGR3nrR4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AP Sports (@AP_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports\/status\/1582493338296532992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you make of the AP trying to gin up a racial controversy over the racial make up of the teams playing in the World Series?<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/2022\/10\/jason-whitlock-says-nhls-anti-white-announcement-is-part-of-global-movement-to-unseat-white-men-heterosexual-men-and-just-men-in-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Whitlock Says NHL\u2019s Anti-White Announcement Is Part Of Global Movement \u201cTo Unseat White Men, Heterosexual Men, And Just Men In General\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press and writer Ben Walker took issue with the fact that they expect there to be no US-born black players in the upcoming World Series that pits the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1716036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}