Big Papi sounded off like only Big Papi knows how.
CLOSE What I'm Hearing: The Red Sox visit to the White House was well... very white. USA TODAY's Tom Schad captures the scene from D.C. USA TODAY
"You don’t want to go and shake hands with a guy who is treating immigrants like because I’m an immigrant," Ortiz, who hails from the Dominican Republic, told the WEEI Boston radio station on Monday. "Once you see what is going in this country based on being an immigrant or being black, it’s something that goes beyond going into the White House and shaking hands with the President just because.
Ortiz visited the White House in 2004, 2007 and 2013 after Red Sox won the World Series, meeting former presidents George Bush and Barack Obama. The Red Sox have opened the door for conflict and criticism in recent days for allowing individual players to decide whether to attend the White House event Thursday afternoon. More than a dozen players and team executives, most of them white, plan to celebrate last year's World Series win at the White House, while a lengthy list of African-American and Latino players have pledged to forego the visit.
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