When news broke, the Dodgers planned to visit President Trump in honor of last year’s World Series victory, complaints quickly spread across Los Angeles as the Dodgers planned to visit President Trump in the White House to mark last year’s World Series victory.
Who at the front desk or clubhouse thinks that celebrating the Dodgers’ incredible 2024 run is made up of talent local and international champions, looking like the city’s logo on the city – those who lost Los Angeles County to Kamala Harris nearly 33 points?
Why did the Blue Crew meet with the most popular members of the country’s own Red Army?
How Jackie Robinson and Jaime Jarrín teams bring admiration nights to the seven ethnic groups (LGBTQ+ community) this season and Trade Unions – May be interested in proclaiming everything declared and wanting to do anything with labor rights?
The Dodgers were immediately called to follow the leads of champions such as Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia Eagles, who boycotted the White House during Trump’s first term in order to condemn everything he represents.
One of these sounds is my companion columnista Dylan Hernández wrote last week that the Dodgers followed the invitation that they would “bend their knees to the hatred forces of the hatred forces, similar to the troops challenged when breaking the color barriers of the movement.”
But appearing does not necessarily mean bowing.
Boycott is a long tradition in sports. In 2020, the Milwaukee Bucks refused to participate in police shootings protesting black Wisconsin shootings, resulting in similar actions in the NBA, Major League Baseball, baseball, baseball and WNBA. College athletes have stepped out of practice to protest racism on campus. Countries have been abandoning the Olympics for political reasons.
But athletes take action, the most powerful, audited political protests are where their actions are. At the 200-meter medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympic Games, think of Tommie Smith and John Carlos standing in silence, without shoes and wearing fists, paying tribute with black power. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick fell to his knees during the 2016 season while the national anthem competed, a move that could eventually kill him. Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali has criticized the Vietnam War and anti-Black racism throughout his career.
Those athletes bring opponents that need to be heard: face the strength, in the brightest moments, their livelihood risks. History has freed everyone.
Tigers quarterback Joe Burrow participated in a 2020 college football national championship in the 2019 college football national championship in the East Room in Washington, D.C., a jersey game.
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The White House visit to the Champions team was a stupid thing and was quickly forgotten. But they are now a tradition of American sports, so I see why Dodge President Stan Kasten tried to say, “This is what it is [the players] All are associated with being a world champion. Everyone wants to go, so we did. ”
But let him stick to what he did to Hernández, it wasn’t political, as ridiculous as the proposed Dodge Stadium Gondora. That’s why the team should not only sway with the White House on Monday, but also do it with the weight of Los Angeles.
I don’t want the Dodgers to slam Trump and his policies, a huge middle finger for California and everything it stands for. But if they have it, there can be a strong condemnation.
They should bring with them parts owner Billie Jean King, a tennis legend who fought masculinity in sports and one of the first LGBTQ athletes to appear publicly. Let Venezuela-born Miguel Rojas stand on Trump so the internet can point out that the president wants to end the deportation protection of his 600,000 compatriots.
With Shohei Ohtani, the dominant National League MVP and the world’s greatest baseball player, shaking Trump’s hand and letting the headlines flourish in order to make Trump’s 24% tariff on Japan flourish. Will the president next strike against foreign athletes in the name of cultivating American talents?
Everyone should wear the No. 42 jersey in honor of Robinson, who famously broke the color line of baseball and also fought against segregation in the military. The Department of Defense initially deleted articles on its website about Robinson’s military service and his refusal to move to the back of the Army bus until facing an angry crackdown on everyone.
All of these gestures are simple and easy to use and can be said. Sometimes, just showing up instead of hiding yourself is the best fight back.
Trump opponents can’t scream into blanks or between each other and think that this is enough to resist. They should not ced the traditions of this country (such as the flag, the White House and democracy) to tyrants like Trump, just because he has wrapped himself in it.
Going to the White House didn’t normalize Trump – it reminds you that this place is ours, not his place.
Additionally, Los Angeles should not keep Trump out, especially when in power. He needs to deal with him in any way possible – which includes meeting in person.
That’s why when Trump visited the wreckage of the Palisade fire earlier this year, Kathryn Barger, the director of Los Angeles County, sat with him for a roundtable discussion, reminding the president that in front of the media that Los Angeles means Los Angeles and challenged his help.
The Dodgers could not think that just posing for photos and handing them to Trump’s memorial Jersey is eligible for time. Or maybe that’s my wishful thinking. Despite all the hype about the fanatical hype and always reflecting Los Angeles, the Dodgers have only one thing to care about in history: the Dodgers.
So my last argument for the team doing something important to their visit makes them all out.
Guys: All of you pioneered the genre of globalism and multiculturalism that Trump hates, now in Los Angeles, and continues to power the best franchise in baseball. Now it’s time to stand on the road to dodge.
