The Orioles’ Adam Jones received an apology from Red Sox President Sam Kennedy after fans at Fenway Park taunted him with racial slurs. (Michael Dwyer/AP)On Monday, Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said he was called the n-word several times by Boston Red Sox fans, who also hurled a bag of peanuts at him. Afterward, he became the latest in a long stream of black athletes to speak out about racism they’ve experienced in the city. “It’s different,’’ Jones said of the racial timbre toward black athletes, according to USA Today. Bill Russell: an NBA champion who won 11 championships for the Boston Celtics in the fifties and sixties, called the city “a flea market of racism,’’ in his 1979 memoir, according to the Boston Globe.

Source: Washington Post May 03, 2017 17:26 UTC