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Re: the topic of this thread - please see Larry Elder's book "10 things you can't say in America" - there's more black racists than white racists.

It is impossible for something to be 1)True, 2)Relevant, and 3)Racist, all at the same time. It can be zero, any one, or any two of those--but not all three, at the same time. What he said wasn't racist, so I don't see where you get off insinuating that he's a racist.

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Espn played the audio that this article was referring to.

Dusty Baker is not very intelligent. You should have heard his delivery. It was expressed in grunts, snorts and strange clicking noises.

Dusty isn't bright and he may even be senile. I mean, inventions such as sunscreen confuse him. Maybe someday, his descendents will evolve to the point of grasping tools of modern civilization.

He's a so-so manager. He's had great ball players, but his piss-poor decisions cost his team the world series.

I always see him in the dug-out on t.v. chewing his seeds like a grazing cow and wearing those awful beat-nik Malcolm X glasses looking intellectual and I always wondered what he was thinking.

Now I know.

Dusty Baker's Brain: "Well, dee dark playas be better in sun dan duh white playas. when hot out, i be puttin' in dee dark ones. when it be code out derre o derre rain o derre snow, maybe i be puttin' in dee whiteys, both duh honkey and dee cracka, bofe of dem dat be on my team."

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The issue for me is not whether Baker is a racist. My interest is in the "respectful" tone of people asking Dusty 'Did you mean that?'

Contrast what is going with Baker with the way an obviously drunk Jimmie the Greek making his 'Because they have those big thighs and a low center of gravity. They were bred to have a low center of gravity so that they could pick cotton better.'

BTW, Baker is wrong. ESPN mentioned in their coverage of the story that the US Army has determined that African-American have higher rates of heatstroke than their honkey comrades in hot weather exersizes.

The contrast in the two cases makes for a fascinating glimpse of the societal double standard we have established in the last 30 years...

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I don't see where you get off insinuating that he's a racist.

That's right. Only whites are racist.