Supporting or opposing white supremacy
We need a lot more action along these lines:
Major League Baseball is scheduled to play its 2021 All-Star Game this summer at Truist Park, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Yet with less than a week to go until Opening Day, the MLB Players Association appears open to discussing whether or not the event should be relocated in response to recent legislative developments in the state.
MLB Players Association director Tony Clark told the Boston Globe that the union body is “very much aware” of the bill signed by Georgia governor Brian Kemp on Thursday that overhauled the state’s election laws.
The bill includes “new restrictions on voting by mail and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run,” according to CBS News. It has been opposed by both Democrats and voting rights groups who believe the law will “disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color.”
Clark told the Globe that “we have not had a conversation with the league on that issue” before adding that “if there is an opportunity to, we would look forward to having that conversation.”
It’s particularly important at this moment to call things what they are, and what the Republican party represents is called white supremacy. All Republicans are now therefore supporters of white supremacy because they support the Republican party. Whether particular individuals think of themselves as white supremacists — of course very few of them do — is irrelevant. What matters is that they are supporting a white supremacist party.
It’s probably even more important to emphasize that reactionary centrists who Both Sides the struggle over voting rights are also, objectively speaking, supporters of white supremacy, because these sorts of arguments take a straightforward issue — Democrats support ballot access and Republicans oppose it — and refuse to acknowledge this simple fact, thereby aiding the Republican party, which means aiding white supremacy.
This applies as well to arguments that try to complicate the issue of whether or not it’s a good thing for the white supremacist structure of the Senate to be ameliorated by things like granting statehood to Washington D.C. That issue is complicated only if you support white supremacy, again objectively speaking. If you don’t support it, then there’s nothing complicated about whether the white supremacist structure of the Senate should be resisted by all available means.
In America today there is no middle ground: either you support or oppose white supremacy by your actions. Supporting the Republican party, either directly by voting for Republicans, or indirectly by obscuring the fact that the Republican party is now a white supremacist organization, is support for white supremacy.
If you do these things, the fact that you swear up and down that of course you don’t support white supremacy how dare you insinuate something like that I’ve always stood for equal rights the content of their character and so on and so forth is totally irrelevant. Because if you do these things you support white supremacy, and that support makes you a white supremacist,