I love baseball. I love baseball so much that I learned to keep score when I was 10 and cried when I learned that David Wells had been traded from the Yankees. I grew up on baseball, and I believed in what it stood for. It is a unifying and uniquely American sport that is full of patriotism and nostalgia. It is a sport that is also so dedicated to equal opportunity that it held the fourth annual Civil Rights Game on Sunday, May 15, in Atlanta.
The Fourteenth Amendment, enacted in 1868 to guarantee citizenship to newly freed slaves, has come under fire recently from anti-immigrant politicians. For nearly 150 years, this Amendment has protected all children born on U.S. soil – regardless of their race and ethnicity or the status of their parents. With very limited exceptions, all children born here are given equal rights. Now anti-immigrant legislators are putting forth needless, divisive measures to undo this great American tradition.
