Albert Breer wants proof about the n-word at Fenway

If you're wondering why Breer is on his fifth job in 10 years, this is a good example. Guy is his own worst enemy.

 

The Red Sox weren't the last team to integrate because the city was racist. It was the last team to integrate because Tom Yawkey was racist. The Celtics were the first team to start an all black lineup. The first to have a black coach. The Bruins had the first black player in the NHL. To claim what a South Carolinian did as proof of Boston's racism is silly.

 

I'm not defending Boston. I'm not from Boston. I've never lived near Boston. I hate Boston, except for Anna's Taqueiria. I root for the teams associated with the city because they're closer to where I live than any other pro team.

This thread should just be locked because this is a journalism board. If you want to dump on the city and the politics and have a discussion on race, there's other boards for that and I'm just going to assume you're a hack and you're perfectly fine with single-sourced journalism because it makes a place/team you hate look bad. Bottom line - Jones said something. No one corroborated. The team apologized for the peanuts, said they were investigating the slurs. More people apologized in response to what Jones said. High school kid tells a national reporter he was at the game, says a bunch of things that make it sound like he definitely wasn't. Stories are being written as if what was Jones is saying is the gospel even though there's a chance he misheard (but probably not).

But instead of having a reasonable discussion about whether or not you would go with the story based on a single source or dive into a discussion about chasing down sources who were there or writing about how the possibility that this didn't happen is the same as if it did, let's just continue to generalize a place you've never been and a board poster you don't know.

 

This is an assumption. You need some sources.

 

Who is writing about Boston who has never been there?

 

Guess Adam Jones and CC Sabathia are silly.

 

More liberals.

 

so more liberals make it more racist? that doesn't hold water.

 

They're not the JV team.

 

The world is a little more complex than you're making it out to be. Boston is a liberal city. Boston is a racist city. Not a coincidence.