Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers made headlines on June 20 by announcing a pledge of $1 million “toward direct financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region.” Translation: They are giving money to illegal aliens and the radical activist groups that support them. It’s hardly a new development. The Dodgers have been funding hardcore leftists in the LA area working to enact “systemic” social change in America for years.
“What’s happening in Los Angeles has reverberated among thousands upon thousands of people, and we have heard the calls for us to take a leading role on behalf of those affected,” Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten said while announcing the donation. Kasten referred to the recent anti-US Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots in the City of Angels. The financial outlay came shortly after the team declared it had barred federal immigration enforcement agents from its parking lots. In other words, the Dodgers went out of their way to inject themselves into a roiling social controversy.
So what else is new? This is the franchise that outraged Roman Catholics across the country in 2023 by publicly celebrating a transgender group that mocks nuns, and doing so on a Catholic feast day. The Dodgers were also at the forefront of the Summer of George Floyd hysteria in 2020 when Black Lives Matter radicalism rolled over the US in a toxic viral pop culture moment.
“The murder of George Floyd is yet another example of the need to openly state that Black Lives Matter,” the team’s Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation declared in a statement that slurred police officers throughout the country.
“Considering the disproportionate amount of police violence and poverty that impact the Black community and other communities of color, it is clear that we are in a state of emergency. This crisis defies the principles on which our nation is supposed to stand. LADF will not waver. We will be part of the solution,” the team stressed.
This is the language of leftist radicalism, and it’s no faddish outlier for the iconic MLB franchise.
Dodgers Partner With ‘Home for Progressive Los Angeles’
There are reports that the Dodgers’ $1 million pledge to illegal aliens includes direct financial assistance to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, an organization credibly accused of facilitating the violent street riots in Los Angeles. In fact, the Dodgers have long been providing money to CHIRLA and similar leftist agitators via a “partnership” with the radical Liberty Hill Foundation.
“At Liberty Hill, we found a powerful ally in the Dodgers Foundation. Together, we pledged to fight for social justice, equity, and community empowerment. Today, we are proud to share that this partnership has not only been upheld but has flourished,” the group proclaims in a website post dated August 15, 2024.
“At Liberty Hill our work is focused on Los Angeles County, because we understand that what happens in LA often influences the nation,” the organization states. “As a public foundation, we provide critical support for social justice campaigns, and as a nonprofit, we lead research and policy initiatives designed to drive systemic change.”
The Dodgers would like the general public to believe they are non-partisan, above the political fray. Their partner with Liberty Hill, however, dispenses with any such pretenses.
“Welcome to the Home for Progressive Los Angeles. No matter how you connected with Liberty Hill: You are part of a community. You are part of a solution. You are part of a movement for change,” the foundation exclaims.
Let’s drive our point home: The Los Angeles Dodgers partner with a self-proclaimed stridently progressive organization. Can you imagine the left-wing outcry if a professional sports team were directly allied with a right-wing political group?
‘Dismantle Traditional Systems of Harm in America’
This is what the Dodgers are financially backing: “We support the evolution of a new movement for racial justice that seeks to dismantle systemic racism and traditional systems of harm in America. To strengthen that movement racial justice is embedded in the core principles of our work,” the group asserts. So-called decarceration is a main tenet of this “racial justice” agenda.
“To challenge mass criminalization of Black, Brown, Native American and Indigenous peoples, our Youth & Transformative Justice program seeks to shift power from punishment systems to people impacted by mass criminalization, dismantle these systems in Los Angeles County, and work toward reimagined approaches to justice that invest in communities rather than prisons and surveillance,” the foundation states.
We could go on and on. Here’s one more.
“Immigrants are the backbone of our economy, our neighborhoods, and our movements for justice,” the group declares. “Yet time and time again, they are scapegoated, criminalized, and terrorized by policies rooted in xenophobia, racism, and fear…. Liberty Hill was built for communities resisting oppression…. This is not a moment for neutrality. It is a moment for solidarity and courage.”
Key point: The Los Angeles Dodgers have already donated hundreds of thousands of dollars towards funding this unapologetically revolutionary agenda.
“This past August, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation and Kershaw’s Challenge [named after star pitcher Clayton Kershaw] announced a generous $110,000 grant in support of Liberty Hill’s collective work on social justice and youth development. To date, the Dodgers Foundation and Kershaw’s Challenge have raised more than $415,000 for this critical work,” the group crowed in a 2022 post. That was three years ago.
Liberty Hill uses the donations it receives from powerful corporate and big-box “philanthropic” organizations such as the Dodgers to in turn fund dozens of local radical groups. Among its listed grantees are CHIRLA and CHIRLA Action Fund, the political wing of the organization that, as Liberty Nation News has reported, has its roots in a Marxist-tinged La Raza Chicano supremacy movement that sees much of the southwestern US as occupied land stolen from Mexico.
So in essence, the Los Angeles Dodgers, via Liberty Hill, actively funded an organization suspected of having fomented the anti-ICE riots in LA. The Dodgers then posed as victims of ICE excess at their ballpark, using that dubious narrative as an excuse to pour even more money into the local radical groups they have been supporting all along.
For the committed revolutionary, all aspects of the existing social order must be harnessed against it. Professional sports is no exception.
