There is no way for anyone to be accused of being racist by the left-wing media, not even children.
A strange but funny scene took place in the stands during Sunday’s Little League Classic match between the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox at Williamsport, Pa. Davenport, IA members were perched on bleachers and placed the toys’ stuffing onto the heads of their teammate. This was an innocent scene, where middle-schoolers were acting innocuously goofy as they do with most middle schools.
ESPN and the left-wing media idiots at the Left used this video to paint white colleagues in the video below racist.
Little League officials tell me there’s no “ill-intent” behind this incident that aired Sunday showing players on the Midwest team from Iowa putting what appears to be cotton in their Black teammate’s hair. pic.twitter.com/Wmjxu4rbNL pic.twitter.com/vaAtSN4JbM
— Chenue Her (@ChenueHer) August 23, 2022
Now for most sensible people, there’s nothing to see here. But if you believe everything and everyone is racist, there’s definitely something here.
The leftist media pounced on this clip and accused the white players of placing cotton on the black player’s head in a move that harkened back to the American slave trade of the early to mid-19th century. The Huffington Post and The Daily Mail created headlines that read ‘Black Player Covered In Cotton By White Teammates At Little League World Series, and ‘Black Little League player’s hair is filled with cotton by teammates,’ respectively.
Darren M. Haynes, an anchor at WUSA9 in D.C., was more charitable in a news segment in which he said, “I believe the kids were not trying to be racist. They just didn’t know what they were doing was racist.”
On social media, white footballers put cotton on the head of their black counterparts.
Here’s my take:@wusa9 pic.twitter.com/3Mcca810fn
— Darren M. Haynes (@DarrenMHaynes) August 23, 2022
All of these media outlets got the wrong picture because they did not understand the entire story or provide context.
The little leaguer’s intent was to give each other fake mohawks as an ode to Jaron Lancaster, a pitcher for the team from Hawaii that has taken the tournament by storm with dominant two-way play, garnering the admiration of his peers and major leaguers alike.
A Snapchat video from one of the teammates was posted with the caption “new jarron lancaster,” and also revealed that the young black kid was enjoying the antics and flexed to the crowd in pride over his new hairdo.
Here’s the context. Lancaster, a Hawaiian stud baseball player is the context. His autograph is being signed by all the children. pic.twitter.com/pEuu1R8h37
— Author, K.E. Ganshert, @KEganshert August 23, 2022
Oh, by the way. There were also other white teammates that did exactly the same thing. It makes it seem like this was a targeted attack on the black player.
Black and White were popular colors for many teammates. The team was imitating the Hawaiian stud pitcher, who is famous for his white-dyed Mohawk. There’s a video where the player making headlines is flexing and smiling with the words “the new Jarron Lancaster” pic.twitter.com/kode6vT3oD
— Author, K.E. Ganshert, @KEganshert August 23, 2022
However, these clips did not make it into the stories as they were not following the fundamental principle of journalism: Get the full story.
Because of this — whether simply through poor reporting skills or a malicious disregard fort the whole story — a group of middle schoolers are being framed as racist bigots who should be punished and “educated,” as Haynes said.
When you mix poor reporting and outlets with agendas to promote, this is how much damage can occur. Each outlet which did not provide context was doing so to be viewed as being noble for speaking out against racism. They forever altered the perception of the Iowa team by doing so.
That is an awful tragedy.