Sad news: The Boston Celtics’ star player has been suspended due to the following:
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Boston has an issue with both sports and race. However, it’s not the only “liberal” city.
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Many Boston Celtics players have discussed racism in the city in public speeches. However, to claim that this is an isolated incident is to misunderstand America.
Tue, Apr. 25, 2023, 9:00 BST
Wing of the Celtics When Jaylen Brown recently talked about how Boston fans treat Black players, many were shocked. “I definitely think there’s a group or an amount within the Celtic nation that is extremely toxic and does not want to see athletes use their platform, or they just want you to play basketball, entertain, and go home,” he said in response to a question from the New York Times about whether he had encountered any unfriendly behavior from the Boston fan base. And I find that to be problematic.
We are aware that American cities influenced by Maga are attempting to go back in time with regard to social and racial issues. However, in left-leaning, gentrified US cities with a large White population, racism takes on a dangerous new form. And a portion of the sports fans in those cities frequently exhibit prejudice.
Massachusetts’s Boston
Commencing with the city that sparked the discussion Boston is known as the center of Democratic royalty, the home base of the Kennedy clan, and 20th-century classical liberalism. Prominent universities like MIT and Harvard are located there. It’s also among the most Democratically-heavy cities in the nation. Regrettably, it also has a dubious racist past.
Desegregation was fiercely opposed in 1974 by Boston residents, especially in South Boston, the city’s well-known Irish-Catholic neighborhood. The “busing crisis,” which resulted from these protests, saw school buses carrying Black students to integrated schools attacked with eggs, bricks, and bottles. According to a 2015 study, white Bostonians had a median net worth of $247,500. Conversely, the median net worth of Black Bostonians was a mere $8.
Adam Jones and Sam KennedySam Kennedy, the president of the Boston Red Sox, and Adam Jones of the Baltimore Orioles converse prior to a baseball game on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Boston. After racial taunts from fans at Fenway Park, Kennedy is expressing regret to Jones. Kennedy issued an apology on Tuesday following Jones’ claim that during Monday night’s game, peanuts were also thrown at him. Kennedy expressed the organization’s “sickness at the actions of a few ignorant people.” (Photo by Michael Dwyer/AP)
Some Red Sox supporters are merely ignorant of Boston’s racist past.
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Many people associate “racism” with burning crosses in people’s yards. However, gentrification, redlining, and housing discrimination can also contribute to it. It makes sense that, out of eight major cities, Black respondents to a 2017 Globe article ranked Boston as the least welcoming to people of color. The mayor of the city proclaimed racism to be a public health emergency in 2020.
However, the racism issue in the city is arguably most well-covered in the sports world. Guard Marcus Smart of the Boston Celtics told Andscape in 2020 about his encounter with a Boston supporter sporting an Isaiah Thomas jersey. While driving close to the Boston Celtics’ home arena, TD Garden, Smart rolled down his window to alert a mother and her child to an approaching car. Her answer? She was wearing a No. 4 green Celtics jersey with a white outline. “As soon as I said that, she looked at me and said, ‘Fuck you, you fucking [N-word],” Smart recalled.
LeBron James, the all-time leading scorer in the NBA, called Celtics supporters “racist as fuck” during an episode of The Shop last year. He remembered getting thrown beer bottles and being called names. Furthermore, he is not the only NBA champion to expose the racism of Celtic fans. In the NBA Finals of the previous year, Celtics supporters allegedly called Golden State Warriors players Draymond Green and Stephen Curry derogatory names.
The baseball team of the city is also subjected to abuse. After Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was the target of racist taunts from certain team supporters in 2017, the Red Sox extended their apology to him. Pitcher for the New York Yankees, CC Sabathia, stated that Black baseball players anticipate racist jeers in Boston. In 2017, Sabathia stated, “We know.” “There’s 62 of us. Everyone is aware. Be prepared for it when you visit Boston.
Utah’s Salt Lake City
In a state known for conservatism, Salt Lake City is frequently seen as a liberal haven. In the most recent presidential election, 53% of voters in Salt Lake County supported Joe Biden. As a matter of fact, they also voted Democratic in 2008 and 2016. However, there have been documented reports of racism in the city’s suburban schools, and the mayor has deemed racism a public health emergency, just like in Boston.
This is a crucial proclamation that our city needs to make. Not only are we publicly acknowledging the existence of a grave inequity that many in our community have known and experienced for so long, we are also committing ourselves to the creation of policies and ordinances that are anti-racist,” Salt Lake City’s mayor, Erin Mendenhall, said in 2021.
