During Sunday’s Civil Rights Game in Atlanta, Carlos Santana booed for speaking his mind. He was more or less supposed to stand around and be a good boy and not say anything. He wanted to say what he wanted to say, but I guess in Atlanta they don’t want to hear it.

The Nation

Major League’s Baseball annual Civil Rights Game was poised to be a migraine-inducing exercise in Orwellian irony. Forget about the fact that Civil Rights was to be honored in Atlanta, where fans root for a team called the Braves and cheer in unison with the ubiquitous “tomahawk chop.”