Hate intrudes again at Fenway Park

From right, Calvin Hennick, his 6-year-old son, Nile, and Hennick’s father in law, Guy Mont-Louis. They attended Tuesday night’s game at Fenway Park.

It was an early birthday present for Calvin Hennick’s son, Nile — an outing to a Red Sox game, the first for the beaming youngster who turns 6 on Thursday.

Fenway Park fans had just cheered Orioles centerfielder Adam Jones, who, the night before, was the target of a racial slur and a bag of peanuts hurled by a Boston fan. A Kenyan woman finished singing the national anthem, and Hennick basked in the unity of that song, sung by a woman of color, a moment of hope after the disturbing episode the night before.

And then it happened. A middle-aged white man, wearing a Red Sox hat and T-shirt, leaned over to Hennick and used a racial slur to describe the woman’s rendition of the anthem.

Once Hennick notified team security, the man who uttered the epithet was ejected and barred for life from Fenway. Team president Sam Kennedy called Hennick on Wednesday to apologize for what happened, according to Sox spokeswoman Zineb Curran. And Hennick said the Boston Police Department’s civil rights division contacted him to discuss the episode.

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