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ESPN’s Michael Smith: ‘If You Are a City in America, You Are a Racist City’
Breitbart ^ | May 2, 2017 | Trent Baker

Posted on 05/03/2017 12:51:13 PM PDT by C19fan

ESPN “SC6” co-host Michael Smith had a strong reaction Tuesday to a group of Boston Red Sox fans using racial slurs towards Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones Monday night with one fan throwing peanuts at him.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bluezones; espn; mlb; racecard; urban
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To: C19fan

http://www.totalprosports.com/2017/04/28/social-media-is-angry-at-espn-for-firing-everybody-not-firing-jemele-hill-michael-smith

Looks like ESPN missed one.


41 posted on 05/03/2017 1:51:57 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: thefactor

“A couple black players have come out and said this happens every time they play in Boston.”

Bull**** ! What players?

They probably consider ANY “boo” racist.

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42 posted on 05/03/2017 1:56:20 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears
CC Sabathia said it, for one. He said he expects racial insults when they play in Boston, as do all black players.

Do you really think what happened to Jones was the only time this has ever happened? You're being naive, IMO.

43 posted on 05/03/2017 1:58:56 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Robwin

I heard one player, I wish I could remember who, tell a story about Ted Williams.

The player was a rookie on the other team and he was jogging around the outfield in the afternoon before a game against the Sox. As he ran past some bleachers he heard someone softly calling “pssst. Hey kid!”

It was Ted Williams hiding under the bleachers. He saw that the kid was having trouble with major league pitching. And being the extraordinary hitter he was he knew exactly what was wrong. So he gave the kid some tips and that night the rookie hit the cover off the ball. For Williams, pitchers were the enemy no matter what team you were on.


44 posted on 05/03/2017 2:03:58 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: C19fan

I don’t condone racial slurs, but Adam Jones has always come across as a surly, dyspeptic person.


45 posted on 05/03/2017 2:15:56 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: C19fan

Why are “people of color” from all around the world breaking down the doors trying to get into this horribly racist country?


46 posted on 05/03/2017 2:17:06 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: C19fan
Would a few people of one group act in one way, do all other people also act in the same way? Isn't that racist? Some people are just a$$holes, not the group. I learned that from TV for 25 years! 👍
47 posted on 05/03/2017 2:59:34 PM PDT by keving (We the government)
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To: C19fan

He’s part right. Louisville. My birthplace. Tulsa. Memphis. Atlanta. Very, very racist. Blacks hates whites there.


48 posted on 05/03/2017 3:20:39 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Pelham; thefactor

Thanks. I had no idea there were so few black baseball players. Does that include black Hispanic players?


49 posted on 05/03/2017 3:22:34 PM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: thefactor

Weren’t the Boston Red Sox the last team in major league baseball to have a black player on the team? Of course that was before most of today’s fans were born.


50 posted on 05/03/2017 3:24:39 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: thefactor

“Do you really think what happened to Jones was the only time this has ever happened? You’re being naive, IMO. “

Of course not,but it happens in many places and by a few drunken idiots.

The press and the “victim” made it out to be more than it was.

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51 posted on 05/03/2017 4:16:42 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Verginius Rufus
"Weren’t the Boston Red Sox the last team in major league baseball to have a black player on the team?

Yep Pumpsie Green, in 1959.

I forget why it took them so long. I think the owner at the time was a big-time racist.

52 posted on 05/03/2017 5:02:10 PM PDT by boop ("I don't know"- Jeff Spicoli)
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To: C19fan

Boo hoo. So Adam Jones got called the N-word. But what about the racist machete murder of that Texas student this weekend? The media couldn’t care less.


53 posted on 05/03/2017 5:48:41 PM PDT by montag813
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To: CharlesOConnell

((((Hugs)))) I never watch his show.Great way to get headlines.People are turning off ESPN.


54 posted on 05/03/2017 5:54:58 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: clintonh8r; thefactor

Dunno if it counts black hispanics. Or where we could find that breakdown.


55 posted on 05/03/2017 6:11:31 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: clintonh8r; thefactor

Dunno if it counts black hispanics. Or where we could find that breakdown.


56 posted on 05/03/2017 6:11:31 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: C19fan

That is true of virtually all rat-run organizations, so what’s the point?


57 posted on 05/03/2017 7:02:39 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: C19fan
Hmmm... who are actually the racists or actually waisis.


58 posted on 05/03/2017 7:17:43 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: C19fan
Maybe. But one of the problems with Boston is that much of its its citizens have a VERY insular nature and really only care about themselves and no one else. Unfortunately, since provincial attitudes can sometimes manifest itself in racism. :-(
59 posted on 05/04/2017 10:53:37 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: clintonh8r; Pelham
From Manfred's 2015 report:

Latin players: 29.3%
African American blacks: 8.3%
Asian: 1.2%
Caucasian: 58.8%
Other? (unaccounted for to make 100%): 2.4%

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/baseball/2567846-percentage-players-race-mlb-rosters-start.html#ixzz4g8aGjAJB

60 posted on 05/04/2017 11:50:22 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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