Say It Ain't So Hank...Aaron: Republicans Are Just Like The KKK...Imagine What He Thinks of Objectivists!


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Black Baseball Legend Hank Aaron: GOP Are Like KKK

Posted By Chris Graham on Apr 10, 2014 | 383 Comments

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Apparently, Hank's brother-in-law is a leftist Congressman from Atlanta.
Additionally, Hank did not know that not one single Republican supported slavery.
Moreover, Hank did not know that it was the Democratic Party that formed the KKK.
Democratic Senator Byrd from W. Virginia was a Grand Klegal of the Clan.
Hugo Black, Democrat, nominated to SCOTUS by Democrat FDR...
and on and on Gore's father, Democratic Senator from Tennessee - Segregationist.
Senator Fullbright, Clinton's mentor, Segregationist,,,
Amazing how racist Hank Aaron is...
Great athlete whom I have always admired and now will put in his proper place in my respect table.
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What is disappointing is the reflex reaction from Republicans who have not integrated the philosophy of Objectivism into their psycho-epistemology. These conservative hangers-on think that Atlas Shrugged is about socialism. When you tell them that it is a philosophical detective novel presented as a girl-finds-boy trope, they stare back like dead fish.

Selene offered us a second-hand write-up from a redneck blog. I went to the story.


Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron compared Republicans that oppose President Barack Obama to the Ku Klux Klan.Speaking to USA Today Tuesday on the 40th anniversary of his then record-breaking 715th home run, the 80-year-old Aaron said that Republicans are hindering Obama’s job performance. ... Aaron continued: “The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts.”

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/hank-aaron-compares-republicans-that-oppose-obama-to-kkk/

But that report was second-hand, also, a recap of another interview:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/04/07/hank-aaron-40th-anniversary-of-715-home-run-babe-ruth/7432225/?sf24769494=1


From that: It wasn't just the thousands of hate letters and death threats. He could handle those. It was the isolation. He couldn't even stay in the same hotel as his teammates. His name was listed in one room, and he checked into another. Constantly, he had a security guard at his side.

Aaron was not speaking about the history of the American political parties, he was talking to the reality today, the here and now. Also on this board and others, Ed Hudgins warns about ignorance deep within the GOP leadership. These are aspects of the same phenomenon. The Republican Party is a lost cause - lost to reason and reality, with one possible exception in the Goldwater campaign 50 years ago. That one moment stood out after the previous generation of Me-too-ism. It was followed by the "Law and Order" and "Moral Majority" campaigns.

A hundred years ago, the GOP was progressive. Two hundred years ago, the Democrats favored laissez faire capitalism. Two thousand years ago Rome ruled the world. Two million years ago, people got along without fire. So what?

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Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron compared Republicans that oppose President Barack Obama to the Ku Klux Klan.Speaking to USA Today Tuesday on the 40th anniversary of his then record-breaking 715th home run, the 80-year-old Aaron said that Republicans are hindering Obama’s job performance. ... Aaron continued: “The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts.”

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/hank-aaron-compares-republicans-that-oppose-obama-to-kkk/

I see, so this was a "rational" statement by Aaron?

Jackie Robinson faced as much or worse, can't imagine him saying something this ignorant.

So which trees did Republicans lynch black folks from last year in American, White Birch?

C'mon Mike, the Democratic Party was the party of the KKK, segregation, Jim Crow, etc.

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