Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in professional sports (The NBA) is being to compared to Jackie Robinson who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947. The fact of the matter is, Jason Collin is no where near comparable to Jackie Robinson, and the corrupt leftist media who keep making the comparisons are one again looking like idiots.
The fact of the matter is, Jason Collins is a scrub, even by NBA standards. He scored ZERO points last night in his first game for Brooklyn against the Lakers. Jackie Robinson was a Hall of Fame baseball player for the Dodgers.
There was never a ‘ban on gays’ in the NBA or any professional sports league. They didn’t have ‘gay leagues’ for gay players who couldn’t play in the major leagues. During the time when blacks were banned from baseball, they had ‘Negro Leagues’ where blacks were forced to play because they were barred from Major League Baseball. There were never any seperate leagues for gay players because they were banned from a sport.
| Jason Collins is NOT Jackie Robinson |
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Jackie Robinson had to deal with racial slurs spewed at him during his playing days with the Dodgers. People even threw things at him because he was black. Jason Collins doesn’t get any homophobic slurs yelled at him during a basketball game.
Jackie Robinson and his entire family were at danger every day he played for the Dodgers for being black. Jason Collins and his ‘partner’ are never at danger in their daily lives because they are gay.
The media landscape is completely different. In 1947, the corrupt media hated Jackie Robinson for breaking baseball’s color barrier. The media in the ’40s fawned the racial hatred of blacks playing in a ‘white’ professional sports league. Today, the gaystapo media can’t stop fawning over a scrub NBA player coming out of the closet as gay.
So just stop already leftist media. Don’t taint to legacy of Jackie Robinson just to score cheap political points over a scrub like Jason Collins. Breaking the color barrier in professional sports is in no way comparable to being the ‘first’ openly gay player in professional sports, especially when you are a scrub like Jason Collins.
Good for Jason Collins for being man enough to admit he’s gay. That doesn’t mean he is anything or anyone special. He’s a basketball player and not a very good one. That’s it.