Bucks President Peter Feigin Clarifies Comments on Milwaukee’s Racial Issues

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Milwaukee Bucks president Peter Feigin made headlines when he called his team’s city the “most segregated, racist place” he’s been to in his life, according to the Wisconsin State Journal’s Dennis Punzel. But he offered praise to the community on Tuesday, per Mary Spicuzza and Charles F. Gardner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“Milwaukee is a terrific community with wonderful people, and I am proud to be a part of it,” he said. “I was addressing a question about the social, economic and geographic divides that exist and how we can help address them. It wasn’t my intention to characterize the general community as overtly racist.”

Spicuzza and Gardner noted Feigin’s comments about the racial …

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