Here's some more from USA Today . . .
. . . The Braves have been besieged by hundreds of letters, e-mails and phone calls deriding Aaron for his comments made to USA TODAY Sports.
    Marion calls Aaron a "racist scumbag.'' Ronald won't attend another Braves' game until Aaron is fired. Mark calls Aaron a "classless,racist.'' David says that he will burn Aaron's I Had A Hammer autobiography.
    Forty years ago, Aaron had the audacity to break Babe Ruth's home run record.
    This time, he simply spoke his mind.
   An added note/update: to clarify: Here is what the offending quote by Mr. Aaron was, directly from USA Today . . .
  "The bigger difference is back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts."
    Never in our 50-minute conversation did Aaron suggest anyone critical of President Obama is racist. Never did he compare the Republican Party to the Klu Klux Klan.
   That quote above is straight from USA Today.
    Hank Aaron's crime was recognizing that the Republican party has treated President Obama with a level of disrespect that no other President has ever been asked to endure. He didn't call the GOP explicitly racist, though you couldn't tell that by the way most conservative sources responded. And yet what Mr Aaron said has merit. From the "Birthers" to shouts of "You Lie" and on and on, Barack Obama has very much been the Jackie Robinson of Presidents. Hank Aaron had the temerity to state that racism still exists today and by flooding the Braves office with racist emails the racists have totally proven Hank Aaron's point.
   Because to some Americans, almost all of whom are white, racism isn't a problem as much as mentioning racism is.
   On April 15th, 1947 Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. We still have a long way to go.