As a Black child growing up in an otherwise all-white neighborhood in Georgia, Jonathan Jones used to walk out onto his driveway and find bags of flyers for the Ku Klux Klan.
“That was normal,” he said. “That was normal.”
Jones was one of several members of the Patriots organization to shed light on his personal experiences involving racism, as part of an hour-long roundtable discussion that aired Friday evening on WBZ. Twenty-one players, coaches, and scouts were divided into small groups, where they discussed the state of race relations in America.
For Jones, the flyers were just one example of how he was treated.