Pirates to re-add Roberto Clemente sign, apologize to family

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12. Mi llamo es Roberto, no es Bobby. Mi madre me puso ese nombre.

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That sign was in right field where Roberto played, it was 21 feet tall to match Clemente’s
uniform #, and it is a throwback to Clemente’s playing days where he was a proud Puertorrico
who wouldn’t allow a bunch of white sport’s reporters and broadcasters to call him Bobby
instead of Roberto in a racist insult because Bobby sounded better to white people. Clemente
caught all kinds of crap for that from being called n****r, to not knowing his place, uppity,
and so on.

I would give the owner a break if I hadn’t just witnessed the trying of whitewashing history of
Jackie Robertson, the Tuskegee Airman, Harriet Tubman, the Navajo Code Talkers, the firing
of the Senior Officers in the Pentagon because they were black or women, and all this anti DEI
crap and the all out attack on people of color’s voting rights. It is part of a racist sexist agenda
that is plan to see.

I hope real Pirates fans pick a day to boycott the team.

Williams added that the right-field wall is 21 feet tall, in honor of Clemente's number, named the Roberto Clemente Wall and has two No. 21 above the out-of-town scoreboard along the wall.