Hispanic comedian George Lopez says he has given up his longtime devotion to the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Lakers after discovering the owner’s investments in federal immigration detainment centers.
Lopez made the comments on a Facebook post and during an interview with Shaquille O’Neal on “The Big Podcast” released June 10. Clips from the episode have gone viral on social media this week.
‘So as soon as I found that out, I disassociated myself. … I lost two teams in one week.’
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The team has tried to encourage its fandom among members of the Latino community in Los Angeles despite activists’ complaints about the displacement of a Latino community when the stadium was built in 1959.
Lopez, who was born in 1961, referred to that history when he
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