Because at the end of the day no one actually cares what religion he is, or anyone else for that matter. I doubt that tomorrow morning we'll be waking up to Sportscenter and CNN headlines of "Manny Ramirez talks about and repeatedly thanks God through interview!" regardless of his skin color. The Red Sox and many other teams have plenty of religious players, players are constantly bringing up God through interviews and all that. I can remember a few Sox players being really religious and no one giving s***.
That comment was overly reaching and just race baiting