Bonds and Race

I'm going to just come out and say it, the vast majority of people who are sticking Barry Bonds with the "cheater" label are racists. Period. This particular post has been prompted by a posting on the Daring Fireball website in which the author wrote:

Bonds Makes History With 756th Home Run ★

See, sometimes cheaters do win.


You know, that was completely unnecessary. I decided to do a search on that site's archives for Floyd Landis. The only "Flyod" that comes up in the search is:

Login Delays and Damaged Font Caches on Mac OS X 10.3
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At some point a few weeks ago, I noticed my iBook had ... Other than this delay at login, however, nothing else ... was ssh gruber@floyd.local. ...

A search for Landis returns squat. Didly. Nada. Not-A-DAMN_THING. Yet Floyd Landis has failed not one but TWO, read that, two drug tests. Where's the

"See, sometimes cheaters do win" in reference to that? Gruber has been writing long enough to have commented on that.

So I went and did a search on Daring Fireball for seven time Tour De France winner Lance Armstrong. Like Barry Bonds, Lance has had people try to smear him with doping allegations. However; unlike Floyd Landis, Mr. Armstrong has never tested positive for squat. He, like Bonds has had contact with questionable doctors, yet not a mention on Daring Fireball about Lance Armstrong being a cheater.

Why is that?

Perhaps John Gruber isn't into Cycling. But even if one is under a rock, you know about Lance Armstrong.

No, instead the general reason why most of the people who think Bonds is a 'cheat" are white, is because Bonds refuses to buck and shine for the media. He's not "approachable". Look at the outrage that happened in the NBA when there were high profile fights between players and members of the audience. The league was aghast of these black bucks not being "sportsmanlike" and allow fans to repeatedly insult them from the stands. God forbid a professional athlete not take that junk. This goes back to why Jackie Robinson was chosen to integrate baseball. He wasn't the best player in the Negro Leagues but he was the most, shall I say "timid". He would take the inevitable shit that was sent his way and still have "class."

So, no, until proven otherwise, Bonds is not a cheat and all these folks out here hating Bonds need to take a really hard look at themselves.