Boston Red Sox Fan Reports A Racial Slur, And A Lifetime Ban Results

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At the same baseball game that saw Boston Red Sox fans make amends with a player who was targeted by racial slurs at Fenway Park, one fan used a slur to comment on a singer — and that fan has now been banned from the stadium.

"Yes, it was a racial comment," Red Sox club president Sam Kennedy said, according to the team. "It was a racial comment used to describe the national anthem that was taking place, the performance of the national anthem. It was sickening to hear."

The fan was ejected and told not to come back to Fenway after he used a slur in speaking to another fan about the Kenyan woman who had just sang the anthem before Tuesday's game.

Both of the men who were speaking are white. But the man to whom the remark was addressed is Calvin Hennick, the father of a mixed-race son, 6, who was sitting with him in the stands.

"Took my son to his first baseball game tonight," Hennick wrote on Twitter, adding that he had "spent the day mentally defending my city" after Monday night's game in which Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was subjected to racial taunts and had a bag of peanuts thrown at him.

 

 

Describing the encounter with a man he described as a "middle-aged white fan," Hennick said the fan had criticized the woman who sang the anthem by saying, "It was too long, and she n*******it up."

"I thought that surely I'd misheard him," Hennick wrote, saying he asked the man to repeat himself.

"Just to be clear," Hennick said he then responded to the man, repeating his words back to him once again.

"That's right," the man replied, according to Hennick. "And I stand by it."

Hennick said he "immediately found an usher and told him what transpired."

"To the Sox's credit, they took the incident seriously," Hennick wrote, adding that when he was brought to identify the fan, the man denied using the slur. Hennick, his son and his father-in-law were given better seats, and the man was eventually kicked out.

While he initially thought the other fan had spoken in the belief that they shared the same views on race, Hennick tells the AP, "The more I think about it, the more I think it was a deliberate thumb in the eye."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/04/526848211/boston-red-sox-fan-reports-a-racial-slur-and-a-lifetime-ban-results

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but but but, free speech?! is no one allowed to have an 'opinion' in trump's america??? 

[Teddy B 17,252]

This is all over the local sports radio this morning. There are questions on whether this actually happened or not. The accuser, Calvin Hennick is a free lance writer for the Boston Globe, which happens to be the paper that broke the story and he has a history of interjecting himself into scenarios that appear in his columns.

 

This comes on the heels of a racial slur incident reported by an Oriole's outfielder on Monday. Supposedly someone in the center field stands called him the "N" word. This incident is also in question because no one can be found to corroborate the story.

 

I'm not sure if either of these incidents actually happened. But can't we all get past the color of one's skin and just get along?

 

Edited to add. It was just announced on the radio that the person accused of the racial incident last night after the national anthem has admitted to Boston Police he did say what he is accused of. What an idiot!

Edited May 4, 2017 by Teddy B

[Jojo92122 1,924]

  On 5/4/2017 at 2:04 PM, smilesammich said:

but but but, free speech?! is no one allowed to have an 'opinion' in trump's america??? 

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Read the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.  No free speech problem here because the Boston Red Sox incident has nothing to do with the US Government and free speech.

 

This has nothing to do with Trump's American.  This has been the rule since forever.  Private property owners can toss out people who say dumb things.  You can do it.  I can do it. 

[smilesammich 10,727]

i don't know anything about calvin hennick but the particular statement that he reported hearing is something i've heard numerous times as concerns black singers of the national anthem, n word included. i don't at all think that the incident is far fetched. but if this guy has a history of making stuff up, then it's a shame this guy got a lifetime ban over a total lie. 

 

personally i have no problem getting along with anyone, more often than not as i get older i don't respond in the slightest to overheard racist statements. there's no point. but i do believe that white people who harbor racist feelings or think this sort of slur isn't actually harmful to anyone, sometimes assume other white people are okay with their racism and their normally a bit embarrassed and caught off guard when this isn't the case.

[smilesammich 10,727]

  On 5/4/2017 at 2:26 PM, Jojo92122 said:

Read the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.  No free speech problem here because the Boston Red Sox incident has nothing to do with the US Government and free speech.

 

This has nothing to do with Trump's American.  This has been the rule since forever.  Private property owners can toss out people who say dumb things.  You can do it.  I can do it. 

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[Teddy B 17,252]

  On 5/4/2017 at 2:26 PM, smilesammich said:

i don't know anything about calvin hennick but the particular statement that he reported hearing is something i've heard numerous times as concerns black singers of the national anthem, n word included. i don't at all think that the incident is far fetched. but if this guy has a history of making stuff up, then it's a shame this guy got a lifetime ban over a total lie. 

 

personally i have no problem getting along with anyone, more often than not as i get older i don't respond in the slightest to overheard racist statements. there's no point. but i do believe that white people who harbor racist feelings or think this sort of slur isn't actually harmful to anyone, sometimes assume other white people are okay with their racism and their normally a bit embarrassed and caught off guard when this isn't the case.

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I agree. This Hennick guy was sitting with his black father-in-law and mixed race son when this happened. It takes a special kind of idiot to lean over and say something like that.

[smilesammich 10,727]

  On 5/4/2017 at 2:31 PM, Teddy B said:

I agree. This Hennick guy was sitting with his black father-in-law and mixed race son when this happened. It takes a special kind of idiot to lean over and say something like that.

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very true. i would expect that sort of boldness from folks around here though, especially when alcohol is involved. one of the funniest fights i've ever witnessed was between two rednecks, one of which had called the other's daughter a n-lover in a 'nice way' and for whatever reason thought the dad would, dunno, agree? at a carnival no less. good times.

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