do such before their recent defeat and elimination?

questioning their motives?

69 reTHUGs in congress voted against sending disaster aid to Puerto Rico. Disgraceful. They hate brown people and want to see them exterminated.

Time for Latinos in MLB and elsewhere to take a knee.

in the protests and don't want to endanger their status here.

Many are just not there yet politically.

African American players in the MLB, and was told it was because it's 'a "white man's sport". I have no idea. Perhaps, someone else can provide some thought.

Baseball programs lend themselves to the white suburbs where players are developed.

though my knowledge is certainly limited.

The major two being football and basketball. You only need two people and one basket to play basketball. Football can be played with only three on a team. Baseball requires lots of players.

Kids don't naturally form large groups. I played all three as a kid. It was always hard to get enough friends together to play baseball.

As for it being a white man's game, tell that to Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and Bob Gibson, just to name a few. I would love to see more blacks in baseball, but kids these days find the sport boring. One could argue that even white participation is in decline. The amount of Latin players keeps increasing. Nothing wrong with that.

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in the black community it once had.

Society moves at a much faster speed now and baseball's slow pace doesn't match society's as it once did.

Plus, with baseball you need the field, the space, the equipment and several players, while with basketball you just need a ball, two players and a public playground to get a game going.

Football has institutionalized high school and college programs, as does baseball you might say, but baseball has lost popularity big time, especially in urban areas.

It's just not the "cool" sport anymore.

But by 2005, their participation had dropped to 9%; this year it's 7.7%.

MLB has established numerous diversity initiatives in recent years in hopes of attracting more black youngsters to the sport. But they don't seem to have found any one explanation as to why the decline occurred in the first place.

During the same time, Latino players' participation went from 14% in 1991 to ~32% in 2017, driving the overall non-white participation up to 42.5%.

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It's just that they haven't exactly been lining up in droves to do it in football, so what chance is there that they will in a much whiter sport?

They see themselves as Venezuelan, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican etc first. Outside the US a pan-latino identify does not exist.