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Red Sox will lead effort to change name of Yawkey Way because Yawkey was a racist
Posted on 8/17/17 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 8/17/17 at 5:38 pm
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The Red Sox have had enough.
At a moment when racial tensions have escalated rapidly and the removal of Confederate statues acts as a flashpoint for violent and racially divisive protests, the Red Sox are ready to start taking down a symbol of their own racially tainted history.
Red Sox principal owner John Henry, saying he’s still “haunted” by the racist legacy of his legendary predecessor Tom Yawkey, told the Herald that his franchise welcomes renaming Yawkey Way. The Sox, he said, should take the lead in the process of rebranding the Jersey Street extension outside Fenway Park that was renamed to honor the former owner in 1977.
Yawkey’s legacy as owner from 1933 to 1976, and then by his widow Jean Yawkey and the Yawkey Trust until Henry bought the team in 2002, was as complicated as it was lengthy.
An inescapable, significant and enduring part of the Yawkey legacy is a racist one, and Yawkey -- a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame -- oversaw the 12 year-stretch from 1947 to 1959 in which the Red Sox watched every other team in Major League Baseball integrate before they became the last club to do so. That residue will not disappear when Yawkey Way is renamed, but it also does not need to diminish the positive impact the Yawkey Trust, funded primarily by the $700 million sale of the team when Henry came aboard, still makes today for multiple worthy causes in Boston and New England.
Yawkey Way, however, is different.
It is a public street, funded by taxpayer dollars.
It’s also where the Red Sox conduct their business and on game days hold permanent rights, after reaching a controversial deal with the city in 2013, to close the street and sell concessions.
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Geez. It is never gonna stop
Posted on 8/17/17 at 5:46 pm to SPEEDY
The southies are not going to like this
Posted on 8/17/17 at 5:47 pm to SPEEDY
Of all the race issues to be concerned about when it comes to Boston, people are talking about a street name?
Posted on 8/17/17 at 5:49 pm to SPEEDY
We won't rest until every symbol before 1963 is erased I guess. Let's rewrite history.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 5:50 pm to SDVTiger
The stupidity is just getting warmed up
Posted on 8/17/17 at 5:55 pm to SPEEDY
Good, they should change it based on Yawkey's actions while he was the owner.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 6:08 pm to SPEEDY
I think the word south should be removed from directions. It is a racist word and points down, the way white people tried keeping African Americans
Posted on 8/17/17 at 6:15 pm to SPEEDY
Maybe John should focus on the fans at Fenway who shout racial epithets all game long.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 6:23 pm to SPEEDY
Doesn't bother me. Yawkey was a shitty owner, and I'd love to see it named after David Ortiz.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 6:25 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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We are becoming Canada
Posted on 8/17/17 at 6:39 pm to SPEEDY
I'm ready to call the 2020 Presidential race for Trump
Posted on 8/17/17 at 6:57 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Let's rewrite history.
Changing a street name isn't rewriting history. Get a grip.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:01 pm to Dr RC
first of all...this is insane but im more dumbfounded that, even as a red sox fan, you want it named after freaking big papi? thats the player you want to name a main street after?
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:06 pm to SPEEDY
So a legit racist may lose a street name and people want to talk about rewriting history?
It's like both sides go back and forth trying to see how ignorant they can be.
It's like both sides go back and forth trying to see how ignorant they can be.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:08 pm to SPEEDY
When you give an inch to the crazies, they will take a mile.
We are reaping what the liberals have sowed
We are reaping what the liberals have sowed
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:11 pm to Wild Thang
Rename it after Ortiz? There are plenty of better ambassadors for the Red Sox...but the owner wants it named after a PED user...
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:14 pm to TexasTiger08
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Rename it after Ortiz? There are plenty of better ambassadors for the Red Sox...but the owner wants it named after a PED user...
and basically a softball player for 10 years
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:18 pm to Chadaristic
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Good, they should change it based on Yawkey's actions while he was the owner.
Which were? I know the Red Sox were the AL last team to intergrate, What were his racist actions? He was before my time so I'm curious.
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