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Boston Red Sox unveil massive Black Lives Matter billboard at Fenway Park
The Blaze ^ | 7/28/20 | Paul Sacca

Posted on 07/23/2020 11:11:11 AM PDT by conservative98

The Red Sox manager said players are free to 'express themselves' during MLB games.

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The Boston Red Sox unveiled a massive Black Lives Matter billboard Wednesday. The 250-foot billboard is adjacent to Fenway Park and faces the Massachusetts Turnpike. The huge sign features the words "Black Lives Matter" in the font of the Red Sox on a black background with the team's logo at the end.

The billboard includes the URL to the Red Sox Foundation website for more information. On the site, Red Sox President and CEO Sam Kennedy released a statement titled, "Social Justice, Equity and Inclusion," regarding the recent police brutality cases that sparked protests across the country.

"I have been struggling to find the right words to express the profound anguish, outrage and confusion we are all feeling in the wake of the heartbreaking incidents that have occurred across the country over the past few months," Kennedy wrote. "The senseless killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor are stark reminders that racism and police brutality continue to be pervasive in America."

"Please know we stand with you,'' Kennedy said of Red Sox personnel who have engaged in social justice protests. "Silence in the face of injustice is unacceptable. Thank you for your support of each other during these challenging times. Our work continues."

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: again; blacklivesmatter; blm; mlb; notagaindifferent; redsox; samkennedy
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To: conservative98

Stopped watching Baseball in the 90’s so I DON’T CARE WHAT THEY DO


21 posted on 07/23/2020 11:28:03 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Kickass Conservative

Lol!


22 posted on 07/23/2020 11:29:18 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: himno hero


That sure is a funny way to spell Citgo


23 posted on 07/23/2020 11:31:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: woodbutcher1963

The “AIDS Quilt” day was tantamount to today’s Gay Pride day. That was before they stole the word “pride” from us. The audience that day was tilted one direction. You can be sure I accompanied my son to the restroom and I didn’t drink beer so I wouldn’t have to go and leave him alone.


24 posted on 07/23/2020 11:31:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: conservative98

I am glad to at least be out of Boston.


25 posted on 07/23/2020 11:31:55 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: conservative98

OMG!
Sickening, absolutely sickening.
And the DNC (Democrat Nazi Communist) gangsters and rioters known as BLM (Burglars, Looters, Murderers) do NOT need any more encouragement !!!!! This huge sign is HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE while BLM criminals are still attacking our citizens


26 posted on 07/23/2020 11:35:30 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: conservative98

Way to go Boston Red Sox, keep it up, you only increase the disgust white paying fans have for the MLB and the NFL. BOYCOTT!!


27 posted on 07/23/2020 11:37:57 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: conservative98

Right next to the Mass Turnpike
Well in range of someone with a paintball gun as they drive by
Just sayin....


28 posted on 07/23/2020 11:38:04 AM PDT by BansheeBill
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To: conservative98

Since white people aren’t welcome there a whole slew of folks will watch at home instead of going to the park...

Lets see how many season tickets they sell...


29 posted on 07/23/2020 11:39:10 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: conservative98

The Red Sox manager said players are free to ‘express themselves’ during MLB games.— Really? So pro life pro trump pro police are fair game then?


30 posted on 07/23/2020 11:40:41 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

NEVER LET A PANDERING OPPORTUNITY GO TO WASTE...


31 posted on 07/23/2020 11:46:06 AM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: conservative98

Lol, how tone deaf can you get. These “woke” zillionaire owners don’t care - and probably are ignorant of - what their team’s fanbase thinks.


32 posted on 07/23/2020 11:46:24 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Dagnabitt

Rape too

Blonde white fetching woman ?

Somewhere there is a beast of a black man who is convinced you simply need it


33 posted on 07/23/2020 11:53:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: woodbutcher1963
Hence avoiding having to visit the MENS room during the game.

Do they still have urinals that are one long sink?

34 posted on 07/23/2020 11:55:27 AM PDT by AU72
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To: conservative98

Kool aid being served in the baseball clubhouses.


35 posted on 07/23/2020 11:56:39 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: conservative98

The stupid lunkheads know baseball, but they’re not informed enough to know that BLM is an anti-American Marxist organization.

It’s really sad to think that their entire take on the matter is only informed by a video of a rogue cop and they can’t pull their heads out of their baseball asses and see the whole picture.


36 posted on 07/23/2020 12:11:40 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: conservative98

NFL - BYE

NBA - BYE

MLB - BYE

If the Giants kneeling during the National anthem wasn’t bad enough, now this.

NHL, don’t let me down.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/sport/anthem-kneel-trump-gabe-kapler-spt-trnd/index.html


37 posted on 07/23/2020 12:13:05 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: treetopsandroofs

“Watch what happens to high school sports when they reopen.”

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Sports as we know it will never be the same. Pop Warner, Little League, at every level it will be infused with this SJW crap as kids are hip to what’s happening. And, kids are too young to be aware of deeper political circumstances. However, the chance of older fans being disgusted is very real, and will result in smaller attendance at events.


38 posted on 07/23/2020 12:15:11 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: AU72
No, they got rid of those about 15 years ago when they added the Monster seats, and remodeled the park. They added several bathrooms tucked away in every place they could. They also added the Budweiser pavilion out at the end of the base lines in the outfields. The one on the first base side is one big bar with the tables that hang down and standing room for 250 people. The roof deck seats also have bathrooms right behind them.

There is another pavilion on the 3rd base side, but they do not sell beer there. It is family oriented. The bathrooms that were behind the grand stand area were the ones with the long SS troughs. Plus they had the big round sinks. People would be pissing in the sinks because the line was so long to get in.

I guess they did not consider home many people would need to go to the bathroom in 1912.

39 posted on 07/23/2020 12:15:15 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Tennessee Nana

Nana, nobody is going to the games.
They are not selling tickets.
They are playing to an empty ball park.


40 posted on 07/23/2020 12:16:46 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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