{"id":59856,"date":"2020-06-30T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59856"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:42:43","slug":"mlbs-ian-desmond-in-a-powerful-post-about-racism-and-social-injustice-opts-out-of-the-2020-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59856","title":{"rendered":"MLB’s Ian Desmond, in a powerful post about racism and social injustice, opts out of the 2020 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLB’s Ian Desmond, in a powerful post about racism and social injustice, opts out of the 2020 season<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cable News Network (CNN)<\/a>
\n2020-06-30<\/p>\n

Scottie Andrew<\/strong><\/a> and Jillian Martin<\/strong><\/a>, CNN<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nIan Desmond<\/a> of the Colorado Rockies<\/a> won’t play in the upcoming 2020 MLB<\/a> season.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

(CNN) Major League Baseball<\/a> player Ian Desmond<\/a> is opting out of the truncated 2020 season<\/a>. Coronavirus<\/a> concerns factored into his decision, but so did the national reckoning with racism<\/a> — something Desmond says needs to happen within the league, too.<\/p>\n

The Colorado Rockies<\/a> outfielder, in a lengthy and emotional Instagram post<\/a>, detailed how he made his decision and how racism impacted his life within the sport and outside of it as a biracial Black man.<\/p>\n

Desmond, an 11-year MLB<\/a> veteran, has played the past three seasons with the Rockies after signing a five-year, $70 million contract…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colorado Rockies outfielder, in a lengthy and emotional Instagram post, detailed how he made his decision and how racism impacted his life within the sport and outside of it as a biracial Black man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674,20],"tags":[7947,9447,3142,30960,30958,30957,30956,30952,30953,30959,30955],"class_list":["post-59856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-baseball","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coronavirus-disease-2019","tag-covid-19","tag-jillian-martin","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-scottie-andrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59858,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59856\/revisions\/59858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}