Mets 1B Dominic Smith: ‘As A Black Man In America, You Encounter Racism On Every Level’

From CBS New York:

June 15 2020

(CBSNewYork)- The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery in recent months have led to the ongoing protests calling for social justice and, as part of that call, has seen athletes using their voices more than ever before. On Sunday, New York Mets first baseman Dominic Smith took to Twitter to discuss his thoughts on the current unrest.

With the caption “silence kills” and followed by hashtags of many names of African American people, men and women, who have died at the hands of police or due to racism, Smith put up two pictures of himself with a long statement discussing his personal experience and calling for change. He says that he didn’t really understand what his parents had been teaching him until he was drafted into the Major Leagues in 2013 and began traveling across the country. It was at that point, outside of the environment he grew up in going to predominantly black schools, that he began to see the oppression that people across the country are protesting against.

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