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Hank Aaron Flooded With Racist Hate Mail After GOP Attack
Newsmax.com ^ | April 16, 2014 | Drew McKenzie

Posted on 04/16/2014 7:54:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The offices of the Atlanta Braves have been flooded with racist letters, emails, and phone calls attacking Hall of Famer Hank Aaron after his interview comparing the way Republicans treat President Barack Obama to the Ku Klux Klan.

USA Today writer Bob Nightengale said the "sheer racism" of the attack against Aaron was similar to the racist onslaught that the African-American star faced in 1974 when he broke Babe Ruth's home-run record.

Nightengale noted that the new hate mail messages came as baseball was celebrating Jackie Robinson Day, April 15, on Tuesday.

One bigoted writer named Edward wrote an email to the Braves' front office with several expletives and racial slurs contained it, according to The Washington Post.

Another baseball fan named Marion called Aaron "a racist scumbag." Mark called Aaron a "classless racist" while a writer named David said he planned to burn Aaron's "I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story" autobiography.

The firestorm erupted after 80-year-old Aaron, the senior vice president of the Braves, said in an interview with USA Today that America today is "not that far removed" from the racial intolerance of the mid-20th century.

On the 40th anniversary of his home-run record, he said, "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. The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; atlantabraves; gop; hankaaron; hatemail; racism
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1 posted on 04/16/2014 7:54:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No mention of the fact that Hank’s remark was racist.


2 posted on 04/16/2014 7:55:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Another baseball fan named Marion called Aaron "a racist scumbag." Mark called Aaron a "classless racist" while a writer named David said he planned to burn Aaron's "I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story" autobiography.

Apparently calling someone a racist is in itself racist. These are the examples given.

3 posted on 04/16/2014 7:57:58 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Race relations are at a 50 year low in America for some strange reason.


4 posted on 04/16/2014 7:58:25 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If some people went overboard with vulgarity and racial slurs that's a shame. Civility should rule in a discussion or even a rebuttal of an imbecilic statement like HA made.

But, calling him a racist is not a racist move. Aaron talks like a race baiter which takes him down to the level of Jackson, Sharptoon, Nagel and the rest. A man I thought deserved my respect has proven otherwise.

5 posted on 04/16/2014 7:59:36 PM PDT by Baynative (Got bulbs? Check my profile page.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I was never much of a baseball fan—I think it’s sort of like watching paint dry.

I guess this guy doesn’t mind having his freedom diminished-—everything they can, they turn into a racist thing……

He need to open his eyes and see what’s really happening in Washington.


6 posted on 04/16/2014 7:59:46 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I'm not defending any racist mail or e-mail in this case, but Hank Aaron really wandered off the reservation on this one with that idiotic and bizarre statement. It's really a sad end to a long life in the public eye for a sports star. Aaron comes across as not only a bitter, angry old A-hole with that statement, but an ignorant fool, too.

To paraphrase Laura Ingraham ... Shut up and play ball.

But since Aaron is too old to do that, he ought to just go away. I suspect a lot of his resentment is based on his awareness that he has nothing to offer the baseball world anymore, and that he probably had no place in Major League Baseball once his playing career ended.

7 posted on 04/16/2014 8:00:01 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I have to wonder how many come from lefties trying to muddy the water. While I found Mr. Aaron’s remarks insulting, I would no more reply in kind than I would try to fly off my roof.


8 posted on 04/16/2014 8:00:14 PM PDT by W.Lee (After the first one, the rest are free.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

AAron was a good man but his racism is being returned in kind.


9 posted on 04/16/2014 8:00:46 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I thought it was rather amusing to see him try to say that Republicans are Really Democrats?? Kind of makes ya wonder why so many blacks encourage other blacks to remain on the plantation. Maybe they really are worried the Democrat KKK will start up again.


10 posted on 04/16/2014 8:02:01 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
BS. They got messages from people that simply disagreed with what he said. Not our fault “they” think dissent is racist.
11 posted on 04/16/2014 8:02:05 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conseravtives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Blah blah blah...

WACIST...............................................!!!!!!


12 posted on 04/16/2014 8:03:07 PM PDT by Altura Ct. (i)
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To: SaxxonWoods

150. I’m pegging this erosion all the way back to Reconstruction.


13 posted on 04/16/2014 8:03:50 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I'd also point out that Hank Aaron accomplished -- with that preposterous statement comparing Republican elected leaders with the KKK -- something that I never would have thought possible. In one instant he removed any resentment I may have had about a Barry Bonds breaking Aaron's home run record.

In fact, if I ever run into Barry Bonds in a bar or restaurant, I'm going to offer to buy him a drink and toast his record with him.

14 posted on 04/16/2014 8:03:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He’s a racist with an asterisk.


15 posted on 04/16/2014 8:05:43 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: Mike Darancette
AAron was a good man...

We're being shown we were wrong to think that. It would appear he is/was not.

16 posted on 04/16/2014 8:06:06 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So...anyone taking issue with Aaron’s own race -baiting, bigoted statements is a bigot themselves, eh?

Funny how that works with these liberals.

I’m white, and I would vote tomorrow for Alan West, for Herman Cain, for Clarence Thomas, for Alan Keys, etc.. They are all black and all good, God-fearing and loyal Americans...but I guess that makes all of those black men racist bigots too according to these sycophants.

That’s the mental illness called progress liberalism...called the far left.


17 posted on 04/16/2014 8:10:24 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Fledermaus

That’s exactly it. Anyone who doesn’t assent to the “consensus” is a racist, a soldier in the “war on women”, etc. But Islam is a “religion of peace” in spite of its adherents who murder people in various ways, and have many supporters.

Why can’t people see what’s being done to their minds, to their power of thinking for themselves? Unless they just want to assemt to the dangerous lies, because it serves theor own agenda? Or they’re afraid of “social death”-social, for now?


18 posted on 04/16/2014 8:12:42 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hank, you had a great career, a blessed life that you want people to remember you for.
But when you take one for the Democrat team up the whahoo, that is what you'll
be remembered for the most.
19 posted on 04/16/2014 8:17:48 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
feh...
20 posted on 04/16/2014 8:18:25 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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