Updated w/ Video – Governor Palin Delivers Slam Dunk (and Other Basketball Stories)

by Adrienne Ross on Thursday, May 13, 2010 19:43 EDT

By Adrienne Ross – www.motivationtruth.com


As a basketball enthusiast, there’s a special appreciation in my heart for Governor Palin’s most recent Facebook note. I believe in sports, I’ve played them all my life, and I know how much work it takes to excel. I played soccer, basketball, volleyball, and softball. My favorite, even to this day, is basketball. It’s the sport where I’ve always felt the most at home. For me, it’s where creativity flourishes, hard work pays off, and games are won–and I’m all about winning.

As an adult player and coach, I still herald the values of the game. Having coached girls high school varsity basketball for years, I understand how hard girls work–and often without the accolades of their male counterparts. They play for the sheer love of the game most of the time.

My last two regular seasons coaching yielded great rewards for my student-athletes. We set records, beat everybody in our conference and beyond who stepped on the court, and earned both the respect and fear of our opponents. My second to last season, we won our conference championship–the first time in the history of the school, and we did it again the next year.

We didn’t get to that point accidentally. Our team was made up of a core group of girls who worked hard for years, our team practiced six days a week, and we made it our goal to be the best conditioned team on the floor. The result? Victory.

And after all that hard work, talent, and passion, I cannot imagine anyone–for some political reason–having told my girls they couldn’t go to a tournament, especially when the boycott is based on a twisting of the actual law. Let’s leave our warped perspectives out of our kids’ sports opportunities. They deserve better than that. I agree with Governor Palin: our girls need to do their job and play ball, and our president needs to do his job and secure the border. If President Obama would just do what he’s supposed to do, our girls could do what they worked so hard to do, and they wouldn’t be caught up in this political madness.

The Governor writes:

Hey Girls, Play Ball!

This has-been ball player/Wasilla Warrior would like to send a shout out of support to the Highland Park High School Giants Girls Basketball Team in Illinois. These girls have been working, having bake sales, and saving money for months in order play in a hoop tournament in Arizona. They’ve won their school’s first conference title in 26 years, but now because a school bureaucrat – an assistant superintendent – wants to play politics, they’re not allowed to play ball.

Keeping girls off the court for political reasons? As I said last night in Illinois: “Them’s fightin’ words.”

The assistant superintendent claims that a trip to Arizona “would not be aligned with our beliefs and values.” But apparently the school has no problem sending kids on trips to China, which has a population control policy that is anti-girl in practice – contributing to female infanticide and abandonment and sex-selective abortions. So, is China – with its many serious human rights violations (too many to list here) – “aligned” with the “values and beliefs” of the school? But our sister-state of Arizona is not? Really? This is ridiculous and totally unfair to the girls who just want to play ball. Going to Arizona to play in a tournament will not endanger them, and the ban sure doesn’t solve the problem of unsecured borders.

These boycotts of Arizona will not help the state or lead to positive change. Economic and political boycotts of our nation’s 48th state will hurt all Arizonans – including all members of the Hispanic community. If people really want to help, they should tell President Obama to do his job: secure the border. If he were to do his job, the good people of Arizona, who have been overwhelmed by violence on their border, would not feel compelled to do it for him.

In the meantime, let’s help the girls “go rogue” and go play ball. Please take a look at this Facebook page set up on their behalf.

Let’s have our own bake sale! Let the girls play ball!

- Sarah Palin

UPDATE: Earlier today, Governor Palin was on with Megyn Kelly discussing this issue. See the video below.


(H/T PalinTV)

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  • Benito

    I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. All of us ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated, but this is not the case.

    I know the proponents of this law say that the majority approves of this law, but the majority is not always right. Would women or non-whites have the vote if we listen to the majority of the day, would the non-whites have equal rights (and equal access to churches, housing, restaurants, hotels, retail stores, schools, colleges and yes water fountains) if we listen to the majority of the day? We all know the answer, a resounding, NO!

    Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics and do what is right, not what is just popular with the majority. Some men comprehend discrimination by never have experiencing it in their lives, but the majority will only understand after it happens to them.

    • Ron Devito

      Benito,

      This is not about discrimination. Every nation has the right to secure borders. Mexico is very harsh towards people who immigrate there illegally. Mexico's illegals get sent straight to jail. The women get raped, and the men get beaten. That's a fact.

      We have drug runners running across the border on people's property and fighting their wars on our land. We have Islamic terrorists mixing in with Mexicans and others from south of our border. Korans have been found on our border. Mexicans and most other Latin Americans are Catholic and have no reason to be reading the Koran.

      Just like you have locks on the door to your house – to regulate who comes in – a nation has the same right. We cannot have unrestricted, unlimited immigration. It's not sustainable. It has to be controlled, and we want people who want to be AMERICANS, who want to live our life and our values. The AZ law is nothing more than a duplication of federal law already on the books being implemented at state level. The people of AZ have had more than enough with the problems going on at the border, and if the feds are not going to do their job, sir, the state will.

      My wife is Mexican, Benito. She came here on a tourist visa; and when we got married, she became a legal permanent resident. Now, she's going for citizenship. She did not sneak here over the border or overstay her welcome. She did it the right way.

      • Amazonia

        Right on, Ron De Vito.

        To the people complaining against the Immigration law in

        Arizona, I have this to say: It is just like protecting your home. Would you allow strangers to just walk in, set up tent in yur backyard then get into your house, take whatever they want, use it, eat it then just leave their trash on the ground, use up your food, all without your consent? If you have your children in the house, would you sleep well at night knowing that any person, including drug dealers could come in and out at their pleasure, putting your own children at great risk? On top of that, if you decided to put locks in the doors or gates to protect your family, which is your duty, and your property, and went to your city government seeking additional help and, instead of offering and applying methods already established to help keep you safe in your home and city, they said to you "It;s your duty to allow anyone who wants to come into your house, do whatever they want and, in addition, if they get sick or have/cause an accident, you will have to cover those expenses even if that might brake your finances"? What would you say? How would you feel? What would you tell your children?

        If you notice, geographically, topographically, California, Arizona and Texas are a continuation of the same deserts and mountains Mexico has.

        Why, then, has not the Mexican government developed their northern territory just like the US have done with its South? Well educated small business and well to do Mexicans do not emigrate to the US. They get a visa and come here for shopping and business then go back home to their jobs and families.

        It all comes down to acknowledging that it is the responsibility of the Mexican government to allow the right business, entrepreneurial and fairness environment in Mexico so its citizens may be able to have steady, living wages jobs to provide for themselves and their families. Too often vast tracts of agricultural land; the main financial institutions and the main wheelers and dealers in government are in the hands of a few powerful families.

        On our side, we Americans have to be willing to do hard manual work, at least for a time in our lives to supply the demands of factories and farms. It teaches us work ethics and appreciation for those who work in that line of production.

        There are too many Americans on "Disability" in age ranges 30-50's. Why can't most of these people work on something? It's too easy to get on a "disability" or welfare monthly check nowadays.

        And, finally, I say for each illegal immigrant and drug dealer found in the US, let's annex one yard of Mexican territory, straight line horizontally across, from Baja California to the Gulf of Mexico. You'd see how fast the Mexican Government. would make sure the leaks of illegal immigrants and drug dealers into the US get plugged in no time. The burden of compliance would be shifted to them.

        Legal immigrants: Welcome. Let's work hard, the sky is the limit. Let's love this country, the freedom it offers and that we want to keep.

        Thank you

        Amazonia

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