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Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame slugger and MLB’s real home run king, dies at 86
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Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame slugger and MLB’s real home run king, dies at 86

Baseball has lost its legitimate all-time home run king. Hank Aaron, who fought vile racial prejudice in his lonely vigil to break Babe Ruth’s all-time major league home run record, and went …
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DCAllAfrican DCAllAfrican

If free enterprise is going to make or break it, you should be able to discriminate? It should be that, by God, if you're going to open your doors in America, you can discriminate. Why the **** not?

That's why I went into business, so that I could discriminate. I mean, really. I mean I want to be able to serve who I want to. It's my business. It's my investment ... I can't tell a f*g to get the **** out. I should have the right to not associate with a f*g if I don't want to. I mean, why should I have to hire a ****in' f*g, if I don't like f*gs? F*gs discriminate against us, don't they? Sure they do ... Do blacks discriminate against whites?

Who's killed more blacks than anyone? The ****in' blacks. But they want to blame that ******** Roots that came on the air. That Roots was so ********. All you have to do if you want slaves is to hand beads to the chiefs and they gave you slaves. What is the best thing that has ever happened to the black race? That they were brought to this country. No matter how they got here. You know why? Because they intermarried and got educated. They're the ones running the black race.
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Legendary Hank Aaron Passes Away; How He Changed WCW - Fightful | WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News

We’re sad to reveal that baseball legend and once-home run king Henry “Hank” Aaron has died just weeks shy of his 87th birthday. Aaron is best known for his historic, hall of fame career that saw him named to 25 all-star teams — more than the number of years he actually played. He ended his …
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Hank was something serious!
 
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

I don’t want them to forget Ruth; I just want them to remember me.

— Hank Aaron

Thank you for sharing your gifts with us Mr. Aaron!!!

Mission accomplished! You Sir, will always be remembered.

 
To be that good, during that period of time where the odds were tremendously stacked against you, takes a truly special person. I read that he left Mobile, Alabama with two sandwiches and two dollars to later become the home run king. Simply incredible and inspiring.

RIP Hank.
 
blazers21ntnp said:
RIP

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Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Bill Russell, Hank Aaron, what dudes like that went through as athletes? :smh: I know that it will never happen, but white america should be ashamed of themselves, for all sorts of reasons.

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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That right there.
 
DCAllAfrican said:
My first time hearing those quotes from Bill Watts. I need to dig deeper into that whole situation.

But Watts was simply saying what people felt at the time, and today. (See the Same-Sex Cake Situation)
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It was a pretty big deal years ago when it happened. Thus, I've never cared for that form of entertainment.
 
When a Black man like Hank Aaron transitions, all he fought for becomes something of lore, as if it didn't really matter. They made Bob Marley all cuddly, turned Dr. King into a dreamer, Muhammad Ali into a nice guy, so much that Trump wanted a statue of him in his garden, and then recount that Malcolm went to mecca, then no longer found white supremacy intolerable.

Suggesting that I hate it, is too kind of a term.
 
Glad I wasn't born a few decades before I was. It most of been hell on earth for black people in America when my great grand parents were coming up .
 
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