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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Special Assistance Needed For Bonds

Brotha in distress, A brotha in distress!! quick black man! hit the Jesse Jackson light! Sound the sirens to get the attention of Al Sharpton! Bring me your posters and your chants of racism. Brotha in distress!!

Who is the brotha in distress, its Barry Bonds. I feel it's time to lob a call to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to run to the aid of a man, who is being castigated by the media. Bonds who is closing in on Baseball's most revered player and all time favorite on the all time home run list. Is continously being accused of using something he has not tested positive for. Bonds, who happens to be black, is baseballs all time can't stand player. The media hates him. Fans despise him. And yet all he does is mash homers over Giant Stadium, thirty or forty times a year. As a matter of fact, before he mashed for over seventy homers, Bonds was a consistent thirty and forty homer a year player. And still the media hated him.

So now with Ruth in sight, Bonds was ambushed with a book by two beat writers, who may have an axe to grind, who claim that Bonds did in fact use steroids. They write about one woman, who was his mistress and to add insult to injury, was a jilted mistress. Who corrobates their allegations, which is accepted as fact to the media. Bonds is in need of some help here, he needs some protection and he needs it now. He needs the kind of protection that is so effective, that when the protection does its job. All allegations, half truths and innuedoes will be diminished in the form of fear. The kind of fear that a white person has when someone labels them a racist. No white person in todays mainstream media, besides the kooks on KFI 640 am in Los Angeles, wants the label of being called a racists in their own world. Barry needs that. Barry needs to fight a different fight than Aaron had to. When Aaron chased down Ruth, everybody knew he had to deal with racist people and some of the media racists writers. Bonds has to deal with what almost every person of different race in this country deals with..."hidden racism". This type of racism is the one that hurts most, because the person or persons is smiling in your face, acting like your buds or best co-workers, but yet when the day is over, your whatever the derogatory word for each race is. In Bond's case, its hidden in the form of steroid use. I don't believe it. This media wants us to burn this man at that stake because they actually care about the geniunality of the game. They want to believe that a home run is a pure home run. They want to believe that this game, anyone of us can play at any given park is a pure as the driven snow..oh! wait a minute before Robinson came around, it was. Baseball purist who hold laptops are hypocritical, when they prod into someone's personal life, but yet moan and bitch about their own personal freedoms allegedly being taken away in form of the Patriot Act. And they're hypocritical that once again a Black American man is going to stand either one or two on a record they cherished the most. And they won't stop lurking and prodding into this man's personal life and choice to inject, ingest or whatever point of entry of whatever drug he so chooses, until he throws his hands up and say I fluckin' quit.

Barry needs some help.