VIDEO: White Sox EVP Kenny Williams Talks With White Sox TV About Race and Racism

Executive Vice President of the Chicago White Sox, Kenny Williams, sat down with White Sox TV to hold an open conversation about his life as a black man inside and outside of baseball.  He discusses racism that he and his family had to endure his whole life, what life as a black man is to him, his family history, having to take some of his children’s innocence in order to protect them, the hate that he endured after he was hired as the White Sox general manager in October of 2000 and much more.

This is the interview of a 56-year-old man who became the first black general manager of a Chicago professional sports team.  He shares with all of us his world, his pain and his hope. 

Kenny re-lived some buried pain to tell you his story.  What he shares with us in this interview has been 56 years of his life, we can give him 34 minutes of ours to listen.  Turn off your music, put your book down, pause Netflix and give Kenny 34 minutes of your time.