In an interview on MLB Network Radio Friday afternoon, Pirates first baseman Josh Bell spoke about racial injustice in America with Negro League Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick, saying "it can't be swept under the rug."
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“I was seeing it on my phone, and one question pops into my mind. It’s like, ‘Again?’” Bell said about learning of George Floyd’s death. “It’s a scenario where, as a nation, it felt like we went through the Amy Cooper incident, and then the Ahmaud Aubrey incident shortly before that. So it’s like, within a week and a half, two weeks, it was three glaring disgusting things going on, where it felt like injustice was continuing to thrive.”
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Kendrick spoke with Bell and some of the game’s other notable African American athletes -- including Lorenzo Cain, Mychal Givens, Dwight Smith Jr., Delino DeShields and Taylor Hearn -- on race, social justice and progress.
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