ESPN is under fire after angering fans during an ill-advised Little World Series segment.
On Sunday night, a segment during the Red Sox-Orioles game featured several little world series players putting cotton on their black teammate’s hair with no context.
Did anyone else just see this on the Little League World Series?! They was stuffing the black boy hair with cotton!!! #LLWS pic.twitter.com/nRVJpw6FJj
— Smitty (@BullCityHeel) August 22, 2022
This was a little bit strange https://t.co/xuFm11krmU pic.twitter.com/ib9R4ZRmgj
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) August 22, 2022
Fans were outraged and demanded an explanation as to what was going on.
Protect Black kids. The @LittleLeague & @espn should be ashamed they allowed this to happen. The coach was doing it to. And the announcer said “Boys will be boys”. My goodness. How can this happen with on national television? https://t.co/N4HrfmtrVD
— President Kamala’s Hand (Again) (@myronjclifton) August 22, 2022
https://twitter.com/curlyfro/status/1561747388691267584
The kid looks absolutely miserable, and WHY did this team of kids have that much cotton lying around and WHERE the heck was the coach 🤔 https://t.co/ZqEFxwOKse
— Dr. Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) August 22, 2022
This is outrageous. I’m very pissed. @espn @LittleLeague @NAACP #BlackTwitter https://t.co/fet2750ZT1
— Maxine Baptiste (@brownsugar7878) August 23, 2022
Update: The Little League provided a statement on the matter and said there were no ill intentions with the segment.
Little League’s Official Statement on the broadcast below: https://t.co/ljgDuh2QaL pic.twitter.com/3LlruOuQRD
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 22, 2022