MLB All-Star Game 2021

 

Today Major League Baseball, or MLB, moved the All Star game from Atlanta Georgia. The reason thet gave, was that the Georgia Legislature passed stricter voter laws in the wake of the contested 2020 election. The new laws were intended to solve problems, either real, or perceived that were evident. Several Civil Rights Activists, and Organizations’ have contended that the new laws unfairly target minority voters disproportionately. Are the new laws really racist, unfair, and discriminatory?

We as a sovereign nation have a right to set our own boundaries; when it comes to who votes, where they vote, and how the voting is administered. This administration is; the state, counties, local governments, and municipalities, authority. The new laws are not all that restrictive or discriminatory.

Requiring someone to produce identification in order to vote, is no more discriminatory or racist than requiring identification to cash a check. In American society, identification must be proven to do a multitude of tasks. Voting should be no different, so as to make sure that the vote is fair, and square

If identification is a requirement to exercise a civil right, then the government needs to issue an identification, free of charge, so as to not interfere with a Constitutional right. No one should be denied the right to vote because they can’t afford money for an identification. That identification could be used for all voting, whether it be absentee, mail in, or in person. All solutions require a compromise; which no one wants to do.

Another part of that Bill is to remove the authority from the nonpartisan County Election Board to change or remove electors and giving that authority to a partisan body; namely, the State Legislature. The counties need to be able to choose their own electors, at that level. Moving it to the state level creates a disenfranchisement of voters in those counties. The Republicans want to be able to change electors, in counties where they are not the majority.That is the bad part of the whole thing. Hardly the systemic racism that I have been hearing about from activist groups, who bullied MLB into moving a game that, would be played in a predominantly black city (Atlanta is 51% black), where blacks would have more economic opportunity. How does that fix the problem? How does protesting a city foster change. MLB moving the game does nothing other than signify MLB as being politically correct, or “woke” or whatever the hell you want to call it. I call it BS. USA Today the “national newspaper,” says MLB is on the right side of history. Don’t bet on it.