A disquieting sign of the persistence of racism in American culture today? Nope. The incident was actually a disquieting sign of how our racism-obsessed culture has given all too many people a hair-trigger sensitivity that sees racism everywhere, and manufactures it when it isn’t present.
So what happened? Did a New York Yankee use the dreaded word that shuts down all discourse and rational thought and excludes one from polite society forever after? Of course not. Did he come out to bat wearing blackface? Did he taunt the White Sox ballplayer with old racial stereotypes about blacks? No. All he did was pass by Anderson in the first inning and say, “What’s up, Jackie?”
Yeah, really, that’s all. Donaldson was needling Anderson over a 2019 Sports Illustrated interview in which Anderson said he felt as if he were “today’s Jackie Robinson." https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2022/05/22/shock-horror-new-york-yankees-player-makes-racist-remark-to-black-player-n1599841?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=6b9a18cd9b08227863208f689d4bb6f1996f9aa45cd3aa3a1169c2b021d88357&recip=6687427
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