Black MLB players donate salaries to racial justice initiatives for Jackie Robinson Day

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Dozens of Black baseball players will donate their salaries from Thursday and Friday to support racial justice initiatives in honor of Jackie Robinson Day and in protest of Jacob Blake's shooting by police.

Participating Major League Baseball players will donate their salaries to the Players Alliance, a group of more than 100 Black former and current professional baseball players, including the New York Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton and Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Players Alliance encourages Black youth to play baseball and facilitates discussions about racial inequality in the sport.

Read MoreSeveral MLB teams postponed their games on Wednesday and Thursday after the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play their Wednesday playoff game against the Orlando Magic. The stand quickly spread from the NBA to a number of leagues, including the WNBA, Major League Soccer and the National Hockey League.The cancellations came in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

 

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cher If I pay my hard earned money the $300 plus to get a seat in an arena to see ANYONE in any venue I did not spend that money to have you stop and make some political statement. I came to watch you sing, play ball, race or whatever. Save it for another time not my time to see you!

cher They should refund every person whose watched major league athletes everywhere for the last 5-6 yrs since C-Kap first took a knee! It’s disgraceful. Actors, singers athletes, nascar they are all paid to basically entertain us-keep your politics off your respective stage.

They should rehome a black family that got burned out by BLM instead

These are the words from 68 yr old Dan Stone who lived across the street from Jacob Blake - “If a police officer wants you to stop, stop. They're there to do a job. Don't get rowdy with them. Don't get smart with them. Just stop and listen to what they've got to say.Bottom line”

Awh, bless their hearts.....donating money to support criminals running from the police.

They should donate their entire salaries.

cher Why just black they should all do it

Wonderful

cher Love you

When will they donate to save the children from rapists and torturers?

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Fueling division through charity. Like putting fire out with oil. Join the BoweLMovement.

Are they donating to this? This is the America of Joe Biden, BLM and CNN

So damn proud of this young generation of warriors!

Giving $ to these people, smart:

No one cares about these nonessentials

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Can you take a minute to read this!!!Anything can help, even a simple retweet 🙏🏽

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