The great George Santayana quote about reliving the past if you don’t remember it applies mightily to Georgia’s loss of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game.
They weren’t the first to shoot their toes off. With luck, they’ll be the last, but I’m not counting on it with
the GOP in the picture.
Go back 30 years: March 19, 1991. NFL owners voted to take the Super Bowl away from Arizona because it didn’t recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday. Arizona learned from this, and corrected it
with a 62% vote in favor of the holiday in 1992′s election. Lo and behold, the NFL allowed them to have the Super Bowl in 1996.
So Georgia, learn from the past and reverse your racist voter suppression laws. Maybe, just maybe, Major League Baseball will give you the All-Star Game in another five years. And maybe other sports entities won’t punish you too.
Val Williams, Centerville
