The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.
Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.
Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
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