Bonds, the HR chase & the race issue

A search didn't show this article, so hopefully it's not a d_b

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2861930

Portions of the article...

There's a lot more to the article than that, but that's just a sample

 

Numbers are similiar for those surveyed on whether they wanted OJ to get off or not.

 

It's sad to hear that people express opinions based on the amount of pigment in somebody's skin or automatically assume the best or the worst of somebody or automatically support somebody based on that.

 

It is sad to see how this is breaking down along racial lines, instead of based on Bonds' character, the evidence on how much he's grown, or other baseball related factors.
Boom... I agree the numbers are very similar to the OJ numbers during his trial.

Anyone know if there were surveys like this done when Aaron was chasing Ruth and what those numbers were?

 

Well that's nice. He's a cheating scumbag who happens to be an asshole (and on top of that, he makes other blacks look bad by association), and the media's got to make it all about race. Sure, race colors everything in this country. If you took a poll on which chewing gum was best, it likely would be divided along racial lines. The fact is that blacks and whites view the world differently. But race had nothing to do with Bonds using the cream or the clear. He made that choice on his own.

 

Mike Greenberg actually had a good response to this poll on Mike & Mike this morning (Yeah, I listen to it. I admit it). He wondered if the black people responding really understood what Hank Aaron went through during his pursuit of the record when it belonged to Babe Ruth and how hard racism made it for Aaron.

I agree with him. Aaron overcame racial hatred, overcame the death threats, and he did it with the kind of dignity and class that Bonds has never shown. As much as I have always been a Bonds fan, the guy is a spoiled, arrogant prick. It is sad, but it seems like a lot of black people are buying into Bonds' claim that this is all about race, not about being the highest-profile user of PED's or about behaving like such an ass for so long that nobody wants to give him the benefit of the doubt.

 

I'd be curious to hear what percentage of black respondents who think Bonds is clean think that McGwire is clean.

 

It's understandable that there is a bit of confusion. Up until last year both Jason Whitlock and Tom Verducci thought that Babe Ruth still held HR record.

 

Last time I yanked the race card out of Boom's trusty wallet and checked it, the numbers didn't seem to matter. Aaron: Black. Bonds: Black. So a black man will break the record. Saw it already.

Ultimately in 10 years, a brown man will break it again. A-Rod, followed by Pujols.

 

And vice versa. I'd like to think a high percentage of whites think McGwire is dirty.

As FB noted: Bonds is going to break the record of another black man. So can this really fall under the auspices of the white man trying to keep a black man down? Good grief, if this were Ken Griffey Jr. closing in an Aaron, there would be a national celebration like you can't believe.

 

If Hank Aaron was African American, people would feel differently. And if Pete Rose was white, he'd be in the Hall of Fame