In response to the new election law passed by the State of Georgia, Major League Baseball decided to take a stand. In a released statement and in a bold move, they voiced their opposition to the law by stripping the All-Star Game from the Atlanta Braves.

With MLB making this move, it does invite scrutiny as to why they have no issues with discrimination against Native Americans.

Notably, MLB hosted the All-Star Game in Cleveland despite Native Americans problems with the Indians team name as well as the wildly racist Chief Wahoo mascot. MLB tried to skirt around that with the Indians players using the C logo on the cap, but still, Chief Wahoo existed and was visible in some fashion in that ballpark.

The same year the All-Star Game was held at the ballpark of the team with the questionable name and wildly racist mascot, the 2021 All-Star Game was award to the team with a questionable name and wildly racist chant.

In all honesty, there has been debate over the Braves name, but the Tomahawk Chop has been different. It’s been deemed culturally insensitive if not outright racist.

The Braves as an organization not only distributed foam tomahawks to fans, but they have also played the song on the organ prompting fans to do the Chop. When it was an issue brought up by Cardinals pitcher Ryan Helsley, the Braves response was not to do it when he pitched.

Just keep in mind, MLB never said they would take away the All-Star Game if the Tomahawk Chop continued. If anything, that tells us MLB didn’t care. You can also decipher from this, MLB only took action now with the voter law because it felt public pressure to do so.

In the end, that’s what we can say here. Either MLB doesn’t care about Native American discrimination, or they only care about discrimination when people tell them to care.