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People
ain’t
s#!t
and
no
time
does
that
become
more
apparent
than
Black
History
Month.
A
Jackie
Robinson
commemorative
statue
was
stolen
from
McAdams
Park,
a
youth
baseball
field
in
Wichita,
Kansas,
and
was
desecrated
by
burning
according
to
a
Yahoo!
Sports
report.
On
Jan.
24,
the
statue
was
cut
away
at
the
ankles
and
taken
leaving
police
and
the
community
at
large
searching
for
it.
It
was
finally
located
this
past
Tuesday
when
police
and
fire
department
were
called
to
the
scene
of
a
fire,
the
statue
was
damaged
beyond
all
repair.
To
add
insult
to
injury,
the
art
piece
was
the
property
of
League
42,
an
organization
founded
by
Bob
Lutz
in
2013
to
help
make
the
game
more
accessible
to
children
in
areas
where
baseball
fields
are
few
and
far
between.
Moreover,
the
program
aims
to
celebrate
Robinson
and
the
groundbreaking
work
he
did
as
Major
League
Baseball’s
first
African-American
player.
On
Wednesday,
Jan.
31,
the
day
before
the
beginning
of
Black
History
Month,
Jackie
Robinson
would
have
turned
105
years
old.
Again,
people
ain’t
s#!t.
KMUW
reports
that
Lutz
spoke
at
a
press
conference
to
address
what
can
only
be
described
as
a
hate
crime.
“We’re
going
to
move
forward
here
and
not
look
back.
Today
is
a
day
where
we
know
what’s
ahead
of
us,
and
we’re
going
to
confront
that
head
on,” Lutz
said.
“The
statue
that
reappears
at
McAdams
Park
will
be
the
work
of
John
Parsons.”
John
Parsons
is
the
original
sculptor
who
has
since
passed
away
but
fortunately,
he
left
a
mold
of
his
work
so
that
it
can
be
recreated
in
its
true
form.
All
that
said,
there
is
a
silver
lining
to
this
KKKloud.
According
to
The
Guardian,
an
online
fundraiser
amassed
more
than
$160,000
worth
of
donations
to
replace
the
$75,000
statue
with
the
support
of
the
public
and
all
30
MLB
teams.