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Why he feels it is time to banish what many feel is the racist legacy of former red sox owner tom yawkey. Yawkey, who has a street and an m. B. T. A. Station named after him presided over the red sox during a racist past and an admitted shameful record of discrimination during his years. At a time when act vis, especially on College Campuses are clamoring for renaming monuments to racist history it is long past time for boston to think long and hard about the official yawkey legacy. We have invited Adrian Walker to the show this morning. Good to see you again. Okay. Lets get into it. Why did you write this column . Why do you feel boston needs to make this change . It seems timely at the people are talking about history. And how. Whether it is time to reevaluate our historical monuments. Backyard in the form of yawkey way. It seemed like a good time to do it. Again, that is the street they block off. Former jersey street. Part of it was renamed in 1976 to yawkey way. A yawkey died. In

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