Baseball Great Hank Aaron Flooded With Racist Hate Mail After Defending Obama (Click here to read more)
Tom Kludt - April 15, 2014, 12:54 PM EDT.
The Atlanta Braves have been deluged with hate mail after baseball great Hank Aaron's recent comments about racism in America and President Obama's critics.
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According to USA Today, the Braves organization has received hundreds of letters, emails and phone calls since Aaron made his comments a week ago.
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"Hank Aaron is a scumbag piece of (expletive) (racial slur)'' read an email from a man named Edward, according to USA Today.
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Edward evidently used the racist epithet five times.
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"My old man instilled in my mind from a young age, the only good (racial slur) is a dead (racial slur)," he wrote in closing.
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One man called Aaron a "racist scumbag," while another vowed to never attend another Braves game until Aaron is fired from the team's front office. A man named David said he plans to burn Aaron's autobiography.
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The outrage stems from an interview Aaron gave to USA Today last week, 40 years after he broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.
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Aaron said he still has the racist, threatening letters he received as he closed in on Ruth's milestone to serve as a "reminder" that things aren't too different from when he pursued the record.
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