I watched his record breaking home run with joy...to see him say something so dumb is frustrating. I thought he was smarter than that. How does Hank explain Ben Carson?.. Or Allen West? Or Mia Love? Or Star Parker? Or Clarence Thomas? Or Lloyd Marcus? Or Tim Scott?
Maybe to alleviate the pain I will chalk it up to him being old and crotchety....
87 comments to the time of my posting and only one alludes to RATs who founded the KKK and who terrorized blacks until GOP got 1964 Civil Rights Act passed.
Too bad the repubs buying tickets to watch him play didn’t know how he felt back then.
He’s been added to the growing list of black celebrities I no longer admire or will pay money to see.
There was a time when Sports were free of Politics, but the Democrats have tainted every part of the culture with their lies.
Aaron had 35% more at bats to tie up with Babes 714
Enough said
5.56mm
Guys a moron who can hit a ball.
I used to look up to Hank Aaron. When I was younger, I had a bat with his name on it as well as other artifacts that I was proud of.
Reading this, I no longer look up to him. I realize that he is tainted by racism. I recognize that people of some intelligence are distinct from regular goofballs. I don’t have time anymore for the others.
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.
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.