La Raza demands 2011 All-Star game out of Arizona & how come La Raza doesn't get out of Arizona?

[ayize]

Major League Baseball is preparing to host its All-Star game Tuesday, and roughly one-third of the players who will be in Anaheim are African American and Latino. Hispanic and African American players typically make up a third of all those playing major-league ball, with hundreds more in the minors. Given the diversity of today's game, it is especially frustrating that baseball Commissioner Bud Selig remains silent about the nightmare next year's All-Star game could pose for millions of Americans.

Major League Baseball is scheduled to play its 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix, where discrimination and racial profiling will effectively be sanctioned by SB1070, Arizona's controversial new immigration law. Unless the league acts, next year our favorite all-stars could enter a hostile environment, and the families, friends and fans of a third of the players could be treated as second-class citizens because of their skin color or the way they speak.

This law isn't about solving the immigration issue; it's about scapegoating, an established practice in Arizona. For years, law enforcement agencies have criticized the Maricopa County sheriff's office for not serving felony arrest warrants in favor of conducting "saturation" sweeps in which hundreds of Latinos have been indiscriminately arrested in order to find undocumented immigrants. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon has stated that "citizens are being stopped because they are brown," and in a letter to the Justice Department he asked for a federal investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio based on his "pattern and practice of conduct that includes discriminatory harassment, improper stops, searches, and arrests." And this was before SB1070 became law.

What is happening in Arizona is a regression from the freedoms we hold dear and a violation of our civil rights and fundamental values. We are not asking Selig to weigh in on immigration policy; we are asking him to take a stand against bigotry and intolerance. Despite being petitioned by numerous members of Congress and civil rights, labor and social justice groups, Selig has not adequately addressed the issue.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/11/AR2010071103040.html

[dickens93]

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The only bigotry and intolerance I see in Arizona is being promoted and perpetuated by the radical racist group "La Raza" and its extremist followers.

[aviya]

Thank you !

[adalwine]

La raza, means Race, however in Spanish is when "La Raza" word is used, it means the people, the general public and in most cases is referred for the low to middle class and it has nothing to do with race.

[abisha]

How creepy is it that a hate group like la raza/the race is demanding anything? These people are the most openly racist organization in America since the klan. That's why I call them the KKKlan with a Tan.

[victorio83]

La Raza should mind its own business.

[bean]

La Raza can go pound sand