Tuesday’s front page of the Los Angeles Times had one of its cloying diversity fables about immigrant and refugee kiddies making their way in confusing America, titled “Their goal: A level field.”

The story concerns how the diverse students at Oakland International High School have taken possession of a baseball diamond and turned it into a soccer field. The narrative is complicated somewhat by the fact that a parent group had raised $400,000 to turn the formerly empty lot into a proper baseball and they didn’t want the outfield messed up by soccer cleats. In 2007 the school district allowed the local group “Field of Dreams” to create and run the diamond.

But the immigrant kids wanted it because soccer defines “what we are,” different from the annoying Americans. They organized with social media, petitions and other lefty-style complaint strategies. Apparently they didn’t learn in school that agreements with a government entity and raising $400,000 to do improvements on a property are supposed to confer a degree of control.

An earlier article about the conflict was more detailed:

Tensions rise in baseball vs. soccer feud at Oakland high schools, Oakland Tribune, March 11, 2014 [. . .] The baseball field on their school grounds was built in 2008 by civic-minded parents who saw an abandoned field at a closed school that was perfect for a baseball field for Oakland Tech. They got approval to do it with their own money, $400,000 of it, and made it happen. They created a nonprofit called Field of Dreams and now raise $10,000 to $15,000 a year to maintain the field. But at the same time the field opened, the school district decided to reopen the school site for newly arrived immigrants and refugees. Since Oakland International opened, the soccer team at the school has been able to use the baseball field when the baseball team was not using it. But growing tensions this year over damage to the grass relegated them to an asphalt parking lot at the school. “Because the Oakland International students look out the window and see that field every day, they feel it’s theirs, which is not the case,” said Oakland Tech varsity baseball coach Bryan Bassette. “It seems very opportunistic on their end to wait for it to be built and then stake a claim to it.” Bassette said the soccer program at Oakland International High caused about $20,000 worth of damage this fall. They had nothing to offer to pay for the damage and did not offer to help during volunteer work days. [. . .]

The district allowed that the immigrants could use the field if they didn’t wear shoes with cleats. If you look closely at the front page photo, you can see cleats on one girl’s shoes.

Diversity means agreements don’t have to be followed by non-Americans, and citizens are supposed to shut up and take it.

Following is the article called “Their goal: A level field” in the newsprint version: