Boston Police Get Hammered For Tweeting Black History Month Tribute To White Man Who Championed Blacks In Sports

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On Sunday night, as part of black History Month, the Boston Police Department offered a tribute to a man who changed the history of American sports and advanced the cause of blacks in sports by being the first NBA coach to draft a black player, start an all-black starting lineup, and hire the black head coach in any major American sport, years before it was attempted in other sports.

There was one problem: Red Auerbach was white.

Despite the fact that Auerbach was color-blind when it came to excellence, helping him to win an astonishing nine championships in ten years, including eight in a row, unheard of in professional sports, and the fact that his appointment of Bill Russell as the coach of the Boston Celtics preceded the the first hiring of a black manager in baseball by eight years and the first black pro-football coach in the modern pro-era by 23 years, the police department’s tweet prompted an uproar – READ MORE

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