Sports Racism

This Sunday the Press Democrat asked how spectators should react when someone sitting nearby yells racist comments or throws things at black players. Good question. 

Nearly 30 years ago my wife and I faced that question when we took our small children to professional baseball and basketball games in NewYork. I shoved one guy, but our basic answer was that we stopped buying tickets. You can't take kids to an event where you are guaranteed to sit near a foul-mouthed drunken racist and his slobbering friends. 

In the Bay Area we haven't run into the same problem. That might be luck.