[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

“During Tuesday night’s Red Sox-Orioles game, it was reported to Red Sox security that a racial slur was used in a comment from one fan to another fan. The offending individual was promptly ejected from the ballpark and has since been notified they are no longer welcome at Fenway Park. “The Red Sox organization will not tolerate the use of racial slurs at Fenway Park, and we have apologized to those affected. There is no place for racial epithets at Fenway Parker, in baseball, or in our society. The Red Sox have turned the matter over to the Boston Police Department, who will further investigate with their civil rights unit and determine whether it merits further action.”

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. Can they eject him for life for making a comment ABOUT (not AT as the article initially implies) a person? Sure, even though as a location of public access I suppose they must bake a cake if a particular type of person demands it. Beyond that, the organization should be on the hook, fined, to the fullest extent possible, for wasting police time.

As an aside, having lived in MA for most of my life, I can attest that Bostonians are as a group the rudest, most obnoxious, and yes, racist people I've ever known. I've lived in the south and the west, and never did I encounter anything remotely approaching the all-around bad attitude you find in the liberal mecca of Beantown.

[Red Badger]

As I have often noted, here and elsewhere, you will find more mixed race couples in The Old South than in the North..................

[Snowybear]

The entire recent racial slut incident directed at an opposite team member was completely fabricated by a high school student.

[oh8eleven]

Can they eject him for life ...
It's their ballpark ... they can do whatever they want.

[TexasFreeper2009]

yep.

there is a reason nearly all the civil rights activists came DOWN from the North to the South to protest.

They just assumed it must be even WORSE down in the South!

They were wrong. It was and is worse in the North. In the South we just left the blacks alone if they left us alone. Live and let live. In the North, the blacks were and are mistreated on a daily basis.

[albie]

Lots of black folks who played the “knockout” game running around free as you please though. And I don’t remember ever reading one story about white vs black in the “game”.

[jjotto]

Pro sports leagues try to keep it quiet, put pro players of all sorts have long identified Boston as the most noticeably racist city they play in.

[Kid Shelleen]

One of the Catholic Universities near me always celebrates NCAA “Midnight Madness” by inviting a foul mouth rapper to entertain the students.

[dowcaet]

Those of us who grew up in New England, myself in Connecticut, knew there was always a silent racism in the region. It's always held up in the media as the most tolerant area of the country. I remember those busing protests in Boston in the seventies and they got pretty nasty. My uncle lived there at the time and said plenty of whites in the area routinely dropped the N word in conversation. Don't​ kid yourselves about the "tolerance" of Bostonians and easterners in general. It never gets in the press because of the dominance of New York and the DC media, but racism especially towards blacks, is a fact of life in that part of the country. Remember too most of these white racists are DEMOCRATS.