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....
anybody who makes their living hitting little white balls around is suspect in my book. ;-]
Someone please tell Hanky that 0bama hides behind his skin color and that if he were white, he'd surely been impeached and possibly in prison by now over F&F, IRS voter suppression, illegal NSA activities, Benghazi murders and criminal acts pertaining to Obamacare, TO NAME A FEW.
He finally found the courage to come out as the demented racist he is. Now shut up and get lost Aaron.
Plantation mentality. Mr. Aaron judges others by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.
It’s up to conservatives to explain why the policies of the left are what harm black citizens. We’re going up against public schools, media, social culture, etc. so we need strong leaders willing to speak above the noise.
I really miss Ronald Reagan.
Maybe I’m just old, but I’ve learned that the only person that will never let me down was hung on a cross over 2,000 years ago.
“People who oppose Obama/black people/anything I believe are racist.”
Eric Blair/George Orwell talked about this phenomenon in `Politics and the English Language.’
Back in the `30s, people would use the word `fascist’ as an adjective to describe anything they found objectionable:
“That fascist waiter is ignoring us ... my fascist neighbor is playing his music too loud again.” etc.
`Fascist’ had a real meaning (e.g. the precursor to socialism) but was corrupted to mean, simply, “This is something I don’t like.”
People like Hank (and Al, Jesse, Nancy, Bawney and all the other usual suspects—almost always Democrats) who use a strongly pejorative word like racism are, at best, intellectually lazy; at worst, dishonest, so that their `opinion’ can be quickly considered, then discarded.
Surprisingly you even see it in practice occasionally here on Free Republic.
You are very kind. There are some who would say he has been that way most of his life. But then, he knows first-hand what it is like to be the target of racism and was for most of his life.
Many baseball dignitaries at the Atlanta Braves opener last night described him as a classy guy. I'll bet he is pleased with just being an outstanding athlete and inspiration to many young people.
“Say it ain’t so, Hank, say it ain’t so”
What a disappointment. I thought he had some sense but I guess I was wrong. He’s just another black racist.
Maybe republicans should boykkkott his auto dealerships.
Play the Race card, Hank. It couldn’t possibly be the hundreds of instances of crimes, corruption, and cronyism that we have seen under Obastard.
A KKK type person expect others to be subservient on all matters because of there different race or class.
An Uppity person is someone that will not be subservient to a KKK type person.
Mr Aaron states we must be subservient to Mr Obama because of his race..
And we are not correctly subservient. .ie we are being Uppity
I’m sick and tired of having the jerk in the White House referred to as a black president. Based on the same calculus as the left uses to determine his race, which was first established at Nuremberg in the 1930’s, he’s half-white. That makes him a white president. Even Jesse Jackson could see that in 2008.
You’d think a black man born in Mobile, AL in 1934 and who went to high school at Little Rock Central in the early 1950’s would be better educated on the history of southern racism and who the KKK was.
He’s either too stupid or senile or both.
About half of America (the liberal half) is bat guano crazy. Letting them get control of the levers of power will come to no good...somehow, they must be stopped.
What is amazing is that the crazy half includes some of the most well-educated and influential among us.
Though I wasn’t a Braves or Brewers fan, I cheered when Aaron hit the record-breaking home run. All these years, I thought he was way above making remarks like this... he’s either showing some signs of dementia or has been co-opted by OFA.
Very sad that even this once-admired man has stooped so low.
Sad, all to sad. It isn’t the Republican Party that invites misogynistic rappers to the white house. That was Obama. Blacks aren’t putty in the hands of fate. Their revolting admiration for filthy lyrics demeaning to their women is inexcusable. Jay-Z (”but my Bitch ain’t one”)doesn’t reflect reality, he contibutes to the disintegration of what was once a brilliant and lasting contribution to the American experience. “Wha’s the bitches and hoes?” Hank Aaron should know better.
Mr. Aaron be a good n***er on 'dat plantation, yes sir, a good n***er.