Baseball Great Hank Aaron: Obama's GOP Critics Are Like The KKK [View all]
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TOM KLUDT – APRIL 9, 2014, 12:53 PM EDT
Baseball legend Hank Aaron doesn't think President Obama's political rivals are that much different than the racists who threatened Aaron with death as he approached Babe Ruth's home run milestone.
Aaron told USA Today in an interview published Tuesday that he still has the hateful letters he received as he closed in on Ruth's career home run record 40 years ago this week. He said he keeps them as a reminder "that we are not that far removed from when I was chasing the record."
"If you think that, you are fooling yourself," he said. "A lot of things have happened in this country, but we have so far to go. There's not a whole lot that has changed."
According to Aaron, things aren't that much different today — the country's first black president notwithstanding.
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