BALTIMORE ORIOLE STAR ADAM JONES RECEIVED RACIST TAUNTS AT FENWAY
PARK DURING A GAME.
HE SAID THIS DURING THE SITUATION, HE SAID, "A
DISRESPECTFUL FAN THROUGH A BAG OF PEANUTS AT ME.
I WAS CALLED THE N-WORD A HANDFUL OF TIMES TONIGHT.
THANKS.
PRETTY AWESOME."
'S REACTION TO THE WHOLE THING, HE SAID, "IT IS WHAT IT IS,
RIGHT.
I JUST GO OUT AND PLAY BASEBALL.
IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT PEOPLE NEED TO RESORT TO THESE
TYPE OF EPITHETS TO DEGRADE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.
I'M TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING FOR MYSELF AND FOR MY FAMILY."
THIS IS A WEAK AND INSECURE PEOPLE DO.
IF YOU HAVE NOTHING ON SOMEONE, YOU JUST GO AFTER THINGS
LIKE THEIR RACE.
HE HAS NO PATIENCE, IT JUST SHOWS HOW IGNORANT, HOW
WEAK, HOW PATHETIC YOU ARE.
YEAH, BUT THEY ARE TOLD THAT IT IS OKAY.
THEY ARE TOLD FROM THE HIGHEST SEAT IN THE COUNTRY THAT IT
IS OKAY.
WE HAD A CULTURE WHERE IT IS OKAY TO HATE ON MINORITIES,
WHERE BLACK LIVES DON'T MATTER, WHERE WE CAN JUST MAKE ALL OF
THESE SORTS OF POLICIES THAT REALLY AFFECT MINORITIES,
AND WE CAN TALK POORLY ABOUT THEM AND THAT IS OKAY
BECAUSE WE ARE MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
THIS IS ADAMS SOLUTION TO THE SITUATION.
HE SAYS, "WHAT THEY NEED TO DO IS, INSTEAD OF KICKING THEM OUT
OF THE STADIUM, THEY NEED TO FINE THEM 10 GRAND,
20 GRAND, 30 GRAND, SOMETHING THAT REALLY HURT SOMEBODY.
MAKE THEM PAY IN FULL, AND IF THEY DON'T, TAKE IT OUT OF
THEIR CHECK."
AT FIRST I WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF FINES ARE THE WAY, I
THINK THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS TO CONDEMN AND EDUCATE PEOPLE,
WHICH I THINK IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY HERE, BUT THAT HE HAS A
QUOTE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE THIS LATER, BUT HE WAS
SAYING, WHAT IF THAT PEANUT BAG HIT ME IN THE EYE AND I
COULDN'T PLAY BASEBALL ANYMORE?
AND BASEBALL PLAYERS MAKE THE MOST IN OPPOSITIONAL SPORTS, AND
SUBMITTED ME A SECOND LIKE, YET THIS PERSON COULD HAVE INJURED
HIM AND COULD HAVE AFFECTED HIS CAREER, SO THERE SHOULD BE, I
THINK, MORE OF A PUNISHMENT FOR THROWING THINGS ON A BASEBALL
FIELD, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS RACIALLY MOTIVATED.
THAT IS DISTURBING.
IF THEY HIT HIM, THE RED SOX WOULD HAVE SIGNED HIM.
IF HE HIT HIM WITH THE PEANUT BAG THE RED SOX WOULD HAVE BEEN
LIKE, YOU WANT TO COME PLAY FOR US?
YOU ARE MAKING A JOKE FOR TWO NONSPORTS PEOPLE.
WE ARE JUST IGNORING YOU.
MY COUSIN ITCHED FOR THE RED SOX.
NAME DROPPER.
WHEN I HEARD THIS STORY, AND THIS IS A WEIRD THING TO
SAY, BUT I WAS LIKE, IT'S BOSTON, SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT.
LIKE, IN BOSTON ñ
YOUR VOICE CHANGED.
BOSTON, YOU HAVE THE FIGHTER, YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF SHOWS ñ
MOVIES ABOUT HOW AWESOME BOSTON IS, BUT BOSTON, ASK ANYONE
FROM THERE, KIND OF RACIST.
BOSTON, RACIST YOU CAN ROOT FOR.
THAT'S WHAT BOSTON IS.
ALL OF SPORTS IS KIND OF RACIST.
ALL OF SPORTS IS, NOT RACIST, BUT SPORTS IS THE ONE SITUATION
WHERE YOU CAN HATE SOMEONE BASED ON WHERE THEY WERE BORN.
FUCK YOU PHILADELPHIA, YOU DUMB ASSHOLES FROM PHILADELPHIA.
THAT'S NOT RACIST THOUGH.
IT'S NOT RACIST, BUT IT'S IN THE CULTURE, SCREW YOU BECAUSE
OF WHAT TEAM YOU ARE ON.
THAT IS CONFLATING TWO ISSUES.
FOR SURE, BUT IN BOSTON YOU WANT TO HEAR MORE RACIST STUFF.
BUT THAT IS NOT AN EXCUSE, BRETT.
NOT AT ALL.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE.
TO THE ROOTS OF TRIBALISM, AT A VERY PERIMETER POINT.
DON'T GO TO SCIENTIFIC WITH IT.
I'M NOT.
HERE'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY, IN THE MIND OF A FAN OF
ANOTHER TEAM, YOU ARE JUST LIKE, WHAT CAN I DO,
PSYCHOLOGICALLY, TO THIS PERSON, TO MAKE THEM SO OFF THEIR
GAME THAT THEY DON'T CATCH THE BALL.
AND FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IT'S LIKE, YOU'RE A TERRIBLE ATHLETE,
OR LIKE, YOU'RE STUPID, OR, YOUR TEAMS THE WORST.
AND IN THIS SITUATION, THESE IDIOTS ON THE GREEN MONSTER, OR
WHEREVER THEY WERE, YELLING AT HIM, COULDN'T THINK OF ANYTHING,
SO THEY JUST SAID THAT THING THAT THEY SAY, MAYBE JUST IN
THEIR HOUSE, AND FOLKS HEARD THEM, AND IT'S BAD.
I'M NOT SAYING IT'S GOOD, I'M JUST SAYING IT'S BOSTON.
100%, IT IS BAD.
I TOOK THE BIG ISSUE, REGARDLESS IF IT IS AT A SPORTS EVENT
OR SOMETHING, IF SOMEONE IS LOOKING FOR AN INSULT, AND
IN THEIR MIND BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GIVE ANYTHING ELSE THEY GO
TO A RACIAL SLUR, WE HAVE A PROBLEM IN OUR COUNTRY.
IS A HATE CRIME IF HE HIT HIM, DID I SAY THAT ALREADY?
IF HE HAD IT'S TOTALLY A HATE CRIME, AND THINK IT'S GREAT
THAT TODAY, SINCE BASEBALL, THEY PLAY MULTIPLE GAMES, THREE
DAYS IN A ROW THEY WILL PLAY AT THE SAME STADIUM, IT IS A
LITTLE SERIES, AND TODAY, FENWAY STOOD UP FOR HIM.
THE NONRACIST PEOPLE IN FENWAY, AND THEN ALL THE PEOPLE WHO
WERE SO DRUNK AT THE PARK THAT SOMEONE NEXT TO THEM STOOD
UP SO THEY WERE LIKE, WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?
THEY STOOD UP AND GAVE A STANDING OVATION TO ADAM JONES,
THAT WAS NICE, BUT WAS ñ WHAT WAS SHOCKING TO ME WAS FINDING
OUT THAT SYNTHESIS GO ñ SAN FRANCISCO FANS THROUGH A
BANANA AT HIM IN A DIFFERENT GAME, IN 2013.
THAT SURPRISED ME.
PEOPLE ARE RACIST ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, AND IT IS
UNFORTUNATE, AND WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT.