Cleveland’s Yu Chang Receives Racist Messages After Costly Error – By Benjamin Hoffman (New York Times) / April 13 2021
The morning after his throwing error led to his team’s losing a game to the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland’s Yu Chang tweeted on Tuesday about racist messages he had received on social media in reaction to the mistake.
“Exercise your freedom of speech in a right way,” Chang said of the messages. “I accept all comments, positive or negative but DEFINITELY NOT RACIST ONES. Thank you all and love you all.”
The tweet included screenshots of hateful messages and the hashtag #StopAsianHate. Two of the accounts Chang highlighted appear to have been deleted, and a third was made private.
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