Yankees receive backlash over insensitive timing of ‘Blue Lives Matter’ event

Everybody except for the Yankees’ publicity department were aware that Sunday was the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death.

Wow, could this promotion be any more offensive, divisive and disrespectful.

Problem: the Blue Lives Matter night was held on the anniversary, to the day, of Michael Brown’s death. This is beyond poor judgement.

As the “Black Lives Matter” movement has grown, it has been accompanied by practical theologies of people who feel called to act on their faith in pursuit of racial justice, said Gunning Francis, author of the new book “Ferguson & Faith: Sparking Leadership & Awakening Community”. I intend to write the New York Yankees Front Office and the Baseball Commissioner’s office to lodge a formal complaint and urge others to do the same. It’s a crime, you know, for a young black man, the most likely cause of death is homicide. This is a disgrace to the entire Yankees organization. Might I suggest a pocket calendar next time?

I’m comfortable with the decision to support an organization that helps those in need, and I will continue to seek opportunities for the Staten Island Yankees to do so in the future.

“How can we continue with business as usual in our theological schools in the midst of so many egregious injustices?” they asked. To watch those take place was to feel an overwhelming sense of loss and sadness above all else.

A day earlier in Seattle, at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a dozen protesters from the city’s Black Lives Matter chapter jumped barricades around the stage and took the microphone away from the Vermont senator.

Proceeds from the night were donated to the families Liu and Ramos – who were both shot and killed in their patrol auto last year in Brooklyn. “I don’t think we do that”.

“We’re definitely open to any type of fundraiser to support people in the community”, he said.

The website reports that members of the families of two fallen police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were present at the game.

Ever since the concept of race was created just a few hundred years ago through European colonialism and American chattel slavery, black people have been encouraged to believe we are lucky. It was pretty standard.

Jane Rogers, president and general manager of the Staten Island Yankees, responded to the outrage in an interview with Yahoo News.

For their part, the SI Yankees say that it was all a coincidence, and that they didn’t mean to offend anyone. “There was never any intent to connect the days in any way”.

“It’s how we treat any group that comes to the ballpark for fundraising efforts”, she continued. “It turns something that was negative into a positive”. “We just wanted to get them out of the house and put a smile on their face”.

“We also know, by the way, that the abortion industry targets African-American communities”, Fiorina said.

Nationally, preborn black babies are the victims of 35 percent of all abortions, even though blacks make up only 12 percent of the U.S. population. “It was a great day”. Let’s just hope next time the SI Yankees hold an event of this kind, they consider all the events surrounding them first.