Perhaps you interpreted the battling this weekend at Yankee Stadium as a direct final result of a racist remark by Josh Donaldson to Tim Anderson. Or perhaps you think that Donaldson was basically poking fun at Anderson by calling the Black player “Jackie,” which Donaldson said stemmed from the White Sox standout the moment telling Sports Illustrated he feels “like today’s Jackie Robinson” in conditions of breaking the “have-exciting barrier.”
The real truth — no matter if it was a very long-managing joke that went sideways or a malicious, racist taunt — ideally will be uncovered by Significant League Baseball, which is investigating the instances that led to the benches remaining emptied Saturday in the course of Yankees-White Sox, Anderson to be furious and Chicago supervisor Tony La Russa to say Donaldson used “a racist remark.” A lot more context — which includes whether or not Donaldson without a doubt experienced referred to as Anderson “Jackie” in the past in a lighthearted method that was acknowledged as teasing — will make any difference.
But set apart your individual opinions about what you feel transpired and where you draw the line involving ribbing and racism. Let us go as a result of Donaldson’s main league past — he is new to the Yankees, but not practically to baseball or controversy — to see no matter whether, at the instant, he warrants the advantage of the doubt.
“You are truly not meant to like me being on the opposing workforce,” Donaldson told reporters on July 1, 2021, when he first became a hated player in the South Side of Chicago.
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