Why MLB Was the Last Sports League to Respond to George Floyd’s Death

On Tuesday, West Bromwich Albion, a club that currently plays in the second tier of English soccer, tweeted a graphic that read “Together We Are Stronger,” an anti-racism message that it punctuated with the #blackouttuesday hashtag. When one now-deleted Twitter nobody called the team’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement “pathetic” and said he wouldn’t be renewing his season ticket next year, West Brom didn’t stutter. “You won’t be missed,” it wrote. West Brom, an English soccer club that plays its matches more than 3,900 miles from Minneapolis, responded…

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