Ferguson and the Little League World Series

Ferguson, Missouri vs. the Little League World Series

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Gary DeMar

While I was reading what was going on in Ferguson, Missouri, I was watching the 2014 Little League World Series from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. I noticed a couple of things. Many of these 12 and 13-year-olds are big. Some are over six-feet tall.

I noticed something else. There’s an all-black team named Jackie Robinson West from Chicago. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball in 1947. Today, only about 8 percent of MLB players are black. Little League is hoping to change the downward trend with its Urban Initiative program that began in 1999 in Harlem and Los Angeles and now operates more than 200 leagues in nearly 85 cities in the United States with the participation of approximately 51,000 players.

Then there’s the African-American female pitcher from Philadelphia named Mo'ne Davis. She’s an overpowering pitcher who’s gotten a lot of attention.
The crowd, made up of more than 32,000 over the weekend, loves it. There are decent people in America who love to see people succeed and will acknowledge the effort:
“Paul Graziano, an LLWS press box announcer since 1980, has never seen this level of excitement so early in the tournament.
“‘We always got good crowds on championship weekends, but I've seen more growth and more people coming now for early games,’ Graziano said. ‘You've got two girls and a team from the inner city ... I think it will just bolster’ Little League, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary.”
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Watching these kids play was a stark contrast from what we’re seeing unfold in Ferguson, Missouri. Something has happened to black culture since the days of the Civil Rights Movement, and it’s not all good.

As difficult as blacks had it during the days of segregation, a distinctly black culture developed, even in the prevalence of racist attitudes and restrictive laws. We forget, or have never been told, that Washington, D.C., from 1920 to 1960, “was a financial, spiritual, and cultural stronghold. Because Washington was a segregated city, blacks simply created their own metropolis. . . . The first black bank, the Industrial Savings Bank, was started here.” While “the black population of New York’s Harlem inherited many of its buildings from previous white owners, . . . many of the buildings in Shaw were paid for by black businessmen and built by black hands.”[1]

Families were intact, the divorce and unwed mother rates were no different from that of white communities.

Take a look at photographs of the 1963 March on Washington led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Notice how everyone is dressed. Most of the men are wearing suits and ties. Many of the women are wearing hats, as are the men. There is a dignity about the crowd.

Blacks are not helped by the continued claim that all problems for them are racial. Some are, but most aren’t. Black-on-black crime is not the fault of white people. Sky-high out-of-wedlock births are not the fault of whites. High dropout rates among blacks are not the fault of whites. The solution is not to cry “racism” and blame everything on whites or hundreds of years of oppression. Blacks won’t find their problems solved by appealing to the State.

Welfare programs have done a lot to keep black families down by subsidizing family fragmentation and fostering multi-generational dependency. Black problems aren’t solved by naming streets after Martin Luther King, Jr. The same can be said for the King Holiday and Black History Month. These are liberal crumbs to appease the black community, but have any of these actions helped blacks?

Guilt-ridden whites vote for the advocates of government dependency, and anyone who does not will be labeled, you guessed it, a “racist.”
Subsidies have led to the immobility of the poor, the breakup of the black family, and dependency on government programs. There is little incentive to leave the area, since the risks are seen as being too great. Star Parker, once trapped in the welfare cycle, writes:
"Thirty-five years of Great Society social engineering have forced the disadvantaged to live under the control of the federal government. Politicians control their housing, food supply, schooling, wages, and transportation. A centralized government makes decisions about their childcare, healthcare, and retirement."[2]

This is not to say that blacks should imitate “white culture.” There is nothing inherently good in being white. Whites have similar pathologies. We’re all sinners. There is no inherently good black culture. Black is not always beautiful, and, of course, the same can be said for white culture, however it is defined. There’s a great deal of good in both cultures.

Some blacks will say that I don’t know what it’s like growing up black. There is no doubt about it; I don’t know what it’s like, and I never will. But my lack of black perspective doesn’t change what is going on in some black communities. I can’t change what I’m not, but I am responsible to change what I am.

There is no one to blame but me. The sooner I realized this, the sooner I took responsibility for my failings. The hardest thing for anyone to do is look in the mirror and see his own reflection — warts and all. You can’t fix what you don’t want to admit is broken.

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GO NEVADA~~~I hate baseball but I love watching this series, these kids are great and their attitude is top notch for kids so young. I think they are unbelievably professional. All of these kids who have been lucky enough to have made this trip are winners not any of them are losers, they are what is good about our Country....