Bryant: Baseball is a white man's game by design

Orioles outfielder Adam Jones reveals some of the reaction he has received and his own reasoning for his interview with USA Today, in which he offered his take on why MLB players generally have not been involved with anthem protests. (0:46)An ongoing referendum is taking place in America, a trial in which we, the people, seem to be both plaintiff and defendant. The same questions are being asked that have always been asked, especially in an election year, but the consequences of those answers no longer seem to result merely in a difference of opinion. Today, they either confirm that our people, institutions and beliefs are the allies we thought them to be, or they serve as sudden, irreparable proof that our friends and neighbors were never quite friends or neighbors. We assumed too much about the progress we thought we made, believed we were closer than we actually were.

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