Poor Barry Bonds. His salary is $ 22,ooo,ooo per year. He acheived this high pay partly through fraud. He used outlawed drugs to tranform himself into a homerun hitting machine. He just tied Babe Ruth's 714 career homerun tally. Yet Barry is upset and playing the race card. Poor child. Bonds is quoted in todays San Francisco Chronicle. He said, " Babe Ruth is one of the greatest baseball players ever. And Babe Ruth aint black. I'm black. Blacks, we go through a little more and that's the truth. Unfortunately, I said it. And I'm not a racist, but I live in the real world."
He's mad that organized baseball may penalize him for breaking their rules. He's mad that fans are upset because Bonds broke the faith with them. Without the rules of baseball and the fans that go to the game, there would be no Barry Bonds . What he would be qualified to do if there were no baseball is anyones guess.
No African-American is more fortunate than Barry Bonds. He's lucky that his ancestors were brought to America as slaves from Africa. The slaves were eventually set free by the desendants of the slave owners. Blacks have thrived in playing a white mans game to the extent that it is now fully integrated. But if Bonds thinks he's still getting a bad deal here in the U.S. , he can return to Africa and be among his equals.
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