Red Sox Fan Banned From Fenway After Slur to 6-Year-Old Boy

[DonViejo]

The Boston Red Sox have permanently banned a fan from Fenway Park for allegedly uttering a racial slur to a 6-year-old boy, just a day after the team and the mayor of Boston apologized for insults hurled at Baltimore Orioles star Adam Jones. In a statement released Wednesday, the team said security had been notified of a fan using a racial slur in comments to another fan. The Boston Globe reports the fan was a black child at the ballpark to celebrate his birthday. The man had reportedly used the N-word in disparaging comments about a Kenyan singer who sang the national anthem before the game. Security promptly threw him out of the park and issued a permanent ban, stating that the team “will not tolerate the use of racial slurs at Fenway Park.” “There is no place for racial epithets at Fenway Park, in baseball, or in our society,” the team said in a statement, adding that the matter had been turned over to the Boston Police Department. The incident came just one day after Jones said he had a bag of peanuts thrown at him while being taunted with the N-word from a fan in the stands. The Red Sox warned afterward that any fan “behaving in this manner forfeits his/her right to remain in the ballpark.”

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[Initech]

1. WTF is wrong with people???

Just because our president is a belligerent racist, sexist, misogynist, xenophobic bully, doesn't give you the right to be one!

[catsudon]

5. You would think

That this would not happen in a progressive northeast, but I guess people in the south keep it to themselves.

[mythology]

9. Boston has long had a racist side

The south doesn't have a monopoly on that.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Unfortunately, Boston has a fairly wide racist streak.

Primarily it's the resentment passed down through generations of the Irish working class.

I live in DT Boston now, but I remember when I lived in Charlestown (now a gentrified, upscale neighborhood, but used to be heavily Irish lower and working class) you could not get a black cab driver to bring you there. They were terrified. Even though the neighborhood had changed, it still had a bad reputation in the black community.

A lot of these families just keep passing their hate down to the next generation.

[workinclasszero]

7. Trump gave a voice to racists

The MSM normalized Trump's own racism so his followers think its open season on PoC now.

[cyndensco]

2. Dude didn't like the Kenyan singing the national anthem?

Bet his head explodes after every marathon in his city.

[Cha]

4. I know, right

[Cha]

3. YAY! Hope his racist idiot self enjoys his Permanent BAN

[nikibatts]

6. Boston has always had a bunch of deplorables. Thankfully not all people in Boston are like that.

[colsohlibgal]

8. Good

I spent a few days in Boston a couple of decades ago and the racism was palpable.

This jerk need to be banned from every park and arena for any sport.

The el....well theft of this election, resulting in Chitolini, has emboldened the racist slime in this country.

[spanone]

10. good. fuck these racist assholes.