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Pennant Racism 0

Even if you do not follow baseball, you may have heard about the incident in Boston in which a small number of Red Sox fans hurled racial epithets and peanuts at the Baltimore Orioles’s Adam Jones. Ultimately, 34 fans were ejected and one has been banned from Fenway Park.

Alfred Doblin considers the incident’s implications. Here’s a bit of his considering.

I don’t know much about baseball, but the real world – well, that I know. What happened in Boston is not because thirty-plus so-called baseball fans lived in their own world. It’s because they live in ours. I am sure there is truth to what some other players are saying about Boston, that it is a hard town for black athletes. New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia said he was never called the N-word anywhere but in Boston. But racism is everywhere.

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