Robinson's supporters are drawing strength from the growth of an international movement of racists in Europe and the contemptible attitudes of Donald Trump.
But while the symbolism of a children's holiday may be of limited consequence, the contemptible racial attitudes it has exposed are not.
Instead of looking up to Kobe Bryant or Lebron, who a disadvantaged, black kid might conceivably emulate, the contemptible, pusillanimous Dre positioned himself and Niggaz Wit Attitudes (N.W.A).
What troubles me more is the aggressive, belligerently assertive attitude of the umpires, goaded by their contemptible union a union that seeks to make the umpires as visible and important as the players themselves and the ludicrously extravagant amount of time it now takes to play a nine-inning game, which has increased from a little over two hours in my youth to nearly three in 1998.
Many find UK-based cases of "honour" killings all the more shocking for their proximity but, as a young Asian woman, I have often come across attitudes that give rise to this particular brand of contemptible crime.
Pretending to hold moral attitudes while writing under a pseudonym, or pretending to be someone else, is contemptible enough when it happens in the online comments under an article, or in a blog.
Ten months later, a different judge of the same court, relying on what he called "a veritable sea change in social attitudes about homosexuality," said there was no longer "a widespread view of gays and lesbians as contemptible and disgraceful".
It's contemptible.Yikes.Yikes
It's the contemptible fleecing the contemptible.
