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Normally summer is a wonderful time of year filled with family vacations, summer camp, picnics and barbeques and best of all baseball.
Just as major league players are gearing up for the mid-summer classic, the All-Star game that rewards some of professional baseball’s best players a chance to show off their skills and play alonside other top athletes tons and cities across America also host youth league type All-Star games for budding athletes.
That has been the case for the city of Beachwood, OH until this year when Karen Carmen the director of community services felt some twinge of guilt and cancelled this years game.
Carmen told the local television station that the game was segregating players and that it wasn’t good for their self esteem if they were excluded.
I have watched a lot of baseball in my lifetime and I can’t ever recall anyone ever labeling an All-Star game as player segregation.
As for the parents in Beachwood they couldn’t believe that this was happening labeling it silly and as punishment for those that worked hard and excelled in the sport.
While Carmen is supposedly worried about the feelings of the children who didn’t make the team she has completely ignored the feelings of those that deserved a spot on the squad. Everyone is born with different skills and not everyone can be a baseball All-Star. We often hear complaints about how America isn’t very competitive any more when compared to the rest of the world. Why is that? One reason is that the education system pursues an agenda of making sure everyone works at the same level rather than letting students who are better in certain subjects excel. They are taught in essence that it isn’t good to be better than everyone else and are often left without the ability to compete for a job when the time comes.
Political correctness continues to invade virtually every aspect of our lives. In this case director Carnen using some touchy-feely liberal ideaology has gone a little too far by messing with America’s pastime. Some things are just better left alone.
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Don Irvine is Chairman of Accuracy in Media. He is active on Facebook and Twitter. You can follow him @donirvine to read his latest thoughts.
4 Comments for Strike Three For Kids All-Star Game
This is completely ridiculous, as are all aspects of the political correctness that is running rampant. People need to stop simply grumbling amongst themselves and saying how “silly” this is, and they need to start taking ACTION to preserve traditions and other aspects of American society. There should be huge groups or organized and outraged parents storming this director’s office and loudly demanding that the decision be reversed. Then, this person should be fired. Take ACTION, people!
It’s not political correctness that’s destroying America. It’s the apathy that will keep those parents from storming that woman’s office, or the Mayor’s office, or whatever. THEY are the problem, because they allow this to happen. They will NOT take action, but will find ways to either justify this woman, or they will simply divert their attention to something else that requires whining, without the threat of actually having to do something.
Apathy, not silly PC practitioners, is killing us.
Gee, maybe not being on the all-star team might inspire one boy or girl to do better!! and next year, voila!! they are on the team
To Quote Rush “the chicification (sp) of America”