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sports: Despite its teams and the city making strides on race, Boston still has perceptions of racism to overcome, according to CTV. Boston has a reputation, partially left over from a long time ago, that there is more racism within Boston sports, said Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. Boston's reputation as a racist sports town developed through decades of barriers broken and maintained, intertwined with broader struggles for progress along with today's climate of racial tension that sports can't avoid. The type of incident that happened ... is something I would've expected to read about in Boston 25 years ago. The All-Star said he felt it was just the right time to speak out after experiencing previous racial heckling at Fenway over 12 seasons, though he said it was more a sign of larger racial issues than an indictment of Boston or its fans. Jones was given an extended ovation on Tuesday night as he stepped to the plate for his first at-bat, a moment sharply different from what he described Monday night, saying he heard fans call him the N-word and had peanuts thrown in his direction in the dugout, hitting a nearby police officer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.