And, of course, the senile old fart misses the fact that the KKK was overwhelmingly DEMOCRAT!
Senator Byrd where are you, and what party were you in and what rank where you in the KKK?
What black people thought was going to happen when the "freedom struggle" was won is, I think, very different than what white people thought was going to happen.
This is why (most) white people are so satisfied with the results of the 1960s - why the most lily-white schools in the country graduate seniors who know more about Harriet Tubman and MLK that they do abut George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, for example. (Most) white people thought, and still think, that the removal of legal segregation and the funding of white education for black children a) was the purpose of the "freedom struggle" and b) entitled America to declare "mission accomplished".
I think both of these are profound misunderstandings of what blacks expected to happen, in fact were told by the whites who inspired and instructed the "movement" would happen - and looking at the results of 60 years of social policy innovations, there may be something to their view of the matter.
There’s no fool like an old fool. He should have retired from baseball and shut up about politics, since he obviously doesn’t know that the KKK was a Democrat organization.
+1
Two reasons not to care about what Hank thinks (and there are more than two)
1. Hitting a ball over a fence doesn’t make you an expert on anything other than hitting a ball over a fence.
2. Babe Ruth is the true HR king. He actually had MANY more home runs than the number recorded. The reason why is that HRs were hardly even being accounted for until he started to become a phenomenon for hitting them. I’ve read that his actual number of homers was probably over 800. So Babe is still the man, and he always will be. Just saying...
There is no comparison between Aaron & Ruth. Aaron had 12364 at bats hitting 755 hr’s, while
Ruth had 8399 at bats hitting 714 hr. Of course Aaron’s comparison of the GOP with the KKK is off the charts. Poor Hank is probably suffering dementia in not recognized that the RATS WERE the KKK.
Obama has single handedly set race-relations back 200 years!
Wealthy black man says white people are keeping him from being wealthy
Hank, stick to baseball. Politics is not your strong suit.
I think baseball is like Nazi Germany - they have a leader and players... and they like to win. Yep, that’s credible...
Hank Aaron is listed on the Braves website as a senior vp. Feel free to call the Braves 404-522-7630 and ask if this is what ownership and the organization believes. I did and left a number. Haven’t heard back.
Ownership used to be Ted Turner. It’s CEO is now Terry McGuirk.
The comments at the original article make me sad for America.
This country is hopelessly divided.
Nobody ever said he was a genius.
F U H A