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So this happened at a Chicago Blackhawks game the other night…..

The day after four fans were ejected from the Chicago Blackhawks‘ game against the Washington Capitals on Saturday night for making racist comments toward Devante Smith-Pelly, the Caps forward said the situation was “sad” and “disgusting.”

Smith-Pelly, who is black, was in the penalty box in the third period after a fight with Blackhawks defenseman Connor Murphy. He was seen becoming visibly upset with fans at the glass to his left, at one point grabbing his stick and walking over to tap the glass with it. United Center ushers removed four fans from the game after the incident. A Capitals spokesperson confirmed to ESPN that the fans were chanting, “basketball, basketball, basketball!” at Smith-Pelly.

https://twitter.com/ikhurshudyan/status/965221110131384320

Blackhawks fans ejected for making racially charged taunts to Devante Smith-Pelly https://t.co/dGiOgwoctC

— RMNB (@russianmachine) February 18, 2018

We need to properly educate our country about black history. I’ve seen too many NHL players have to deal with racism. February needs to stay Black history month not “Hockey is For Everyone month” in the NHL. What happened to #Capitals Devante Smith-Pelly is unacceptable but I…. pic.twitter.com/WXqNAyUWyI

— Darren M. Haynes (@DarrenMHaynes) February 18, 2018

Alright, so a bunch of wealthy (front row seats) boobs from Chicago got liquored up and chanted “basketball” at a black hockey player. Does that make them racist? I don’t know them, so I can’t comment on that. But it’s obvious that if they said this to him they did so because he is black. If they started chanting it at a white player it wouldn’t make any sense. Clearly the intent here was to taunt the other team by suggesting that he play a sport that more black people play.

But that’s not what we’re hear to discuss.

Here’s my question – did you see this story anywhere on TV? Was it headline news anywhere? Because this is the front page of ESPN.com:

The headline stories on the right are about UFC, the olympics, Fergie’s hipster national anthem rendition, and the All-Star game. You don’t see any mention of the racial incident in Chicago at a sporting event. Yet on May 2 these were the leading stories on ESPN.com:

In other words, alleged racism in Boston is news. Racism in other cities is a back page story you have to search for.

You wanna know why Boston gets a reputation as being racist? Because the mainstream media lies to you. It gets clicks. It brings in ad revenue. It pays the bills. People don’t want to talk about racism in a city where black people are being slaughtered by black people on a daily basis. They want to talk about racism in Boston, where the police tweet out support for Red Aurbach during black history month because he integrated his team, because that’s apparently racist.

Keep in mind, Adam Jones was lying about being called the n word. Adam Jones was over 30 feet from the bleachers in center field where he allegedly heard drunken boobs calling him the n word the entire game. Yet not one person in the stands was able to verify that. Not one. There was no video, no pictures. Nothing. No one has any idea who this mystery fan or fans were. A high school student from Woburn named Niko catfished Mike Lupica and told him that he was there that night. Lupica ran with the story but failed to retract it, even after Niko admitted he made the whole thing up.

Yet even though Niko confessed to Lupica that he was lying, there has been no retraction of the story. It’s actually right here.

Here’s the major difference between the Red Sox and Blackhawks incident – there were witnesses to the Blackhawks incident, four fans were identified and kicked out, there are pictures and videos of the fans, and the player who heard the taunts was sitting directly next to the fans, not 30 feet away from them. In other words, the Blackhawks story is 100% believable, while the Red Sox story is a work of fiction that you’d only believe if you wanted to feed into the false narrative that Boston is a racist city.

Yet despite this blatant racism the talking heads at ESPN and other mainstream media sports outlets have been completely SILENT. Here’s how fired Sports Center host Jemele Hill responded to the Adam Jones incident:

Unbelievable, but believable. https://t.co/IRDxZEWh4L

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) May 2, 2017

Here are here and Michael Smith talking about it on the lowest rated show that has ever existed – SC6:

Michael Smith: “Marty Walsh said, ‘we’re better than that.’ No you’re not.”

Hill: “It has become at Boston. If you’re more upset that Boston is called a racist city, then you are part of the problem.”

Hill: “That fan who yelled the n word and threw the peanuts go out and have a normal life. What other people of color does he subject to this on a daily basis?”

Hill: “The Red Sox have to discuss why this keeps happening in Boston.”

Yet Jemele Hill has not said a WORD about this racial incident in Chicago. She’s had plenty to say about this though:

Laura Ingraham: Hey LeBron, you’re too dumb to talk politics.

Also Laura Ingraham: Hey LeBron, come on my show to talk politics.

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 17, 2018

Funny. https://t.co/J7hznjvLpK

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 17, 2018

Perfect response. https://t.co/LTbwtj16Wo

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 17, 2018

Fox News Laura Ingraham foolishly said that LeBron James should not talk about political issues, and instead he should stick to dribbling a basketball. LeBron James is free to say whatever he wants on his own time. He’s not kneeling for the national anthem. This was dumb and hypocritical of her to say. And as you can see, Jemele Hill has been calling her out on it all day.

But she didn’t have a WORD to say about Chicago being a racist city, because she’s too busy insinuating that Fox News is a racist network.

Then there’s Michael Wilbon. The PTI co-host has been one of the most vociferous critics of Boston for it’s allegedly racist reputation. According to him the Red Sox should’ve played games from that point on in front of an empty stadium:

“What the hell is this? 1947? Is that what this is? Adam Jones has to be Jackie Robinson, and he has to have stuff thrown at him because he doesn’t look like the people throwing the stuff in the stands? Is that what we’re talking about? Then shut the stadiums down. Do like they do in Europe when they have incidents like this because of racist acts or violence and they say, ‘You know what? We’re having a closed door game.’ Then no fans.”… If you want to tell me all of the time about being ‘Boston Strong,’ then be strong enough and advocate that you can’t have this. Be strong enough to have zero tolerance for this kind of behavior in your stadium and in public places.”

Guess where Wilbon is from? Chicago of course. So you would think that he would LOUDLY condemn a racial incident like this at a sporting event in his home city. After all, he went so far to say that Boston should not even allow fans into games because of one racist idiot who was never identified.

Here’s Wilbon’s only tweet since the incident:

I'm sure Laura Ingraham, if she knew who we were, would tell @MarcJSpearsESPN and me to shut up. Like LeBron, we won't. And like LeBron we find her comments as ignorant as they are insulting. And so thankfully we have @TheUndefeated on which to respond. https://t.co/TugV9bgkWg

— Michael Wilbon (@RealMikeWilbon) February 18, 2018

Just like Jemele he has plenty to say about Laura Ingraham, but not a word about racism at a sporting event in HIS city. No calls to shut down the United Center. No blanketing of an entire city as racist. Just silence.

Jemele was loving it:

The Big Lead had this headline:

Nearly 60 racist Red Sox fans were ejected from Fenway according to Adam Jones. They threw peanuts at him https://t.co/FA9OGWvJOx

— The Big Lead (@thebiglead) May 2, 2017

Sixty fans were ejected!! It’s just a blatant LIE!! And the tweet is still up because they don’t give a shit about reporting REAL NEWS!!

Again, they haven’t even MENTIONED this incident on their twitter. They did tweet this out a couple times though:

WEEI Hosts Got Into Yelling Match During Sensitivity Training https://t.co/lmsn7ljbBF

— The Big Lead (@thebiglead) February 18, 2018

WEEI’s sensitivity training is news. Racism in Chicago is not.

Journalism is dead. This is why you ride the turtle. Because we’re the only ones not afraid to call out these frauds on their bullshit.