Baseball Great Hank Aaron Flooded With Racist Hate Mail After Defending Obama

[one_voice]

The Atlanta Braves have been deluged with hate mail after baseball great Hank Aaron's recent comments about racism in America and President Obama's critics.

According to USA Today, the Braves organization has received hundreds of letters, emails and phone calls since Aaron made his comments a week ago.

"Hank Aaron is a scumbag piece of (expletive) (racial slur)'' read an email from a man named Edward, according to USA Today.

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Aaron said he still has the racist, threatening letters he received as he closed in on Ruth's milestone to serve as a "reminder" that things aren't too different from when he pursued the record.

"If you think that, you are fooling yourself," Aaron said last week. "A lot of things have happened in this country, but we have so far to go. There's not a whole lot that has changed."

When he shifted his attention to Obama, Aaron seemed to compare Republicans to the KKK.

"We can talk about baseball. Talk about politics. 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," Aaron said.

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[alsame]

1. Thereby proving his point. nt

[randys1]

2. EGGSactly

hate hate hate hate hate

[frylock]

4. they just can't help themselves..

these are the same idiots that bemoan race being injected into any conversation, claiming that we live in a post-racial society.

[Zambero]

3. Hank Aaron knows about this first hand

He was one of the first black players to make it into the big leagues, and played opposite Jackie Robinson. There was a fair amount of bigotry back then, and unfortunately the darker aspects of human nature do not change that much. And vehement hatred is often the fallback when being called out for projecting the impact of one's failings onto another.