Darrell Anderson, the black owner of a limousine business in Atlanta, told the Washington Free Beacon Manfred’s decision will hurt the community and worsen the economic damage from the pandemic. "As the owner of a transportation service in Atlanta, I know firsthand how badly our community wanted the All-Star Game played here," Anderson said. "The $100 million in revenue to this area was going to be the opportunity for all of us to recover some of the losses that we incurred during the pandemic. Now, not only is that revenue gone, we may lose even more because conventions that were planned for Atlanta are now up in the air thanks to this decision by the MLB."... Alfredo Ortiz, president of the Job Creators Network, a small-business advocacy group, sent Manfred a letter Wednesday demanding him to reverse the decision, arguing the move "will have an outsized impact on minority-owned businesses." "Your decision is punishing the very group you claim to be defending," he says. "Small businesses in Georgia are hurting and you pulled a multi-million dollar rug out from underneath them…. Don’t let activist groups weaponize America’s pastime to push radical ideas that MLB fans don’t support."