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Le'Veon Bell Handles Racist Tweets About His Injury With Class

By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc

Twitter really is the wild west: You can say or do anything and basically get away with it.

Former Michigan State RB and now Pittsburgh Steeler, Le'Veon Bell is out for the season with a MCL injury.

And  because it's the Internet, Bell faced some trolls who decided to tweet the following.

Warning NSFW language in the tweets.

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OK, so one f-bomb, nothing that we haven't read on Twitter before. This guy didn't delete the tweet or his Twitter account, instead he embraced it, stating he had been blocked by Bell.

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This guy decided to delete his tweet, but what he Tweeted was cowardly.

I love the fact that Bell took the high road, he put these guys on blast and killed them with kindness.

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