Major League Baseball recently decided to relocate the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, because of Georgia’s new voting law. The Georgia Legislature would have you believe that the new regulations improve voting, and they do — for Republicans. Let’s face it, they lost the presidency and two U.S. Senate seats, because Black voters turned out for the Democrats. So to mix our sports metaphors, the Republicans decided to move the goal posts by changing provisions to make it even harder for poorer people of color to vote.
Read MoreThe 2009 All-Star Game in St. Louis. This year’s game has been moved to Denver from Atlanta to protest Georgia’s new restrictive voting law. Photograph by Barbara Moore.