Posted on 04/09/2014 10:32:40 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
...Hank Aaron compared Republicans that oppose President Barack Obama to the Ku Klux Klan....
“Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he’s treated,” Aaron told USA Today Sports.
Aaron continued: “The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts.”
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As opposed to the dimorats, Hank, who actually founded the KKK.(I’m sure he, like most other rats don’t even know that.)
Keep ‘em dumb and on the plantation.
When I was a kid growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s - a white kid in an all-white neighborhood - my hero was Hank Aaron. He’s just kicked me in the face.
Aaron’s only connection to Obama is that Obama’s family may have owned his.
Another one goes on my excrement list.
CORRECTION: Aaron attended Central High in Mobile. I took Little Rock off a Google page that came up during a search on another site.
Should have done the math and known better. Guess Google isn’t always accurate.
I wrote a sad letter to Mr. Aaron almost twenty years ago when he took part in Ted Turner’s CASTRO’S BOYS OF SUMMER. It was a Potemkin baseball show about Cuba glorifying communism, with Hank passing out shiny new baseballs to the poor Cuban kids. It was disgusting.
I always was puzzled that he continued to make a big deal out of the few psychos who sent the sick letters. I never heard a single person say anything negative about his chase. Heck, Roger Maris had a much rougher go of it. But, all these years later, he acts like it was ripping the races apart.
He and Willie Mays don’t get along. Willie gets treated like the heavy, but I don’t know. Hank has issues. I wouldn’t read too much into his little rant. So, he’s a race-baiter? Too bad. But, he was 100% class on & off the field as a player & in the front office. That’s what matters.
If I was black growing up where & when he did, I might not be rational either.
As a kid growing up, I remember George's black bat, and how he hit 52 homers in 1977.
How I idolized/loved the man.
I recall my dad saying: son watch him, he's one of the greatest hitters ever.
I read of how when the Reds won the WS he wouldn't participate in the champagne celebration, because he was a Godly man, who didn't drink.
The Reds ended up pouring milk over his head as he hid in the shower.
Later I found out that Foster chose his black bat because it "gave him an opportunity to hit something white with a black club".
I'm sorry I EVER looked up to these characters.
Don't!!!
Regret the worship of politicians who stole our freedom.
Not all black men support other black men. But a majority of them do. There are those who are well informed who act independently from others of their race when making decisions.
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