The Southland News reported that Bonds’ spokeswoman and a Giants’ spokesman both declined comment on the story.

I could see how lefty readers might doubt that Kittle is telling the truth. After all, those white devils just can’t be trusted. Besides, hasn’t Barry Bonds told us himself of his sufferings at the hands of white racism?

Indeed, Prof. Leonard Moore of LSU has informed us that a great many white people do in fact resent Bonds’ march through the record books.

As Katherine Corcoran reported in the March 30 San Jose Mercury News,

Still, there are many who argue that race is at the core of the San Francisco Giants super-slugger's troubles. They see a time-worn pattern of a federal government and a predominantly white media tearing down a strong black athlete - who this time happens to be on the cusp of besting the home run mark of a beloved white icon.

"If you have a black man who's conscious and independent and on the verge of breaking Babe Ruth's record...that's frightening,” said Leonard Moore, a Louisiana State University professor who teaches a course on the history of the African-American athlete. “If you speak out, if you don't play to what white America wants, there will be persecution, scrutiny and unfair reporting.”

Apparently for Moore, “conscious” and “independent” are euphemisms for racist.

There are four things wrong with Leonard Moore’s statement.

1. Bonds is not on the verge “of breaking Babe Ruth’s record,” because Babe Ruth hasn’t held the home run record since April 8, 1974, when Hank Aaron broke it. Leonard Moore doesn’t seem to know anything about the history of black athletes in America.

When Aaron was bearing down on the Babe’s ghost, some whites were indeed angry, and sent him hate mail, including death threats. (Not “frightened,” mind you, which is a cliché that exists only to make sanctimonious white lefties and black racists feel morally superior to their white opponents.) But when Aaron broke the Babe’s record, that was that. The reasons for conjuring up a non-existent record, are to steal Hank Aaron’s ordeal for use by Bonds, and so that racist frauds like Leonard Moore can claim that white Americans are as racist as they ever were, and that black Americans are the same victims they were under Jim Crow. (Or is it slavery this week?)

2. Far from suffering from unfair, racist reporting, Barry Bonds has enjoyed a holiday from serious scrutiny.

In an unwitting self-caricature, in 2002, the New York Times sent a well-connected lefty who knew nothing about baseball to do a puff piece on Bonds. David Grann was so ignorant about the game that he thought that baseball teams were led by “head coaches”; he didn’t know that they have managers, and neither did his clueless editor at the Times Magazine, Adam Moss.

Grann insinuated that Bonds and his late father, Bobby, both were victimized by white racism. The truth is, that while Bobby Bonds, may he rest in peace, had Hall of Fame talent, he lacked a Hall of Fame heart.

Most black public figures today enjoy a holiday from journalistic scrutiny, unless racist black activists or journalists have deemed them “insufficiently black” (e.g., Justice Clarence Thomas), in which case it’s open season on them.

The lack of scrutiny of black public figures or of black social pathologies derives from black race-baiting and racist black newsroom enforcers and their white allies.

Black celebrities intimidate white media by declaring in advance that the “white media” are racist. It’s a diversion tactic to distract people from the celebrities’ own racism.

For years, singer Whitney Houston has been the master of this game. She has repeatedly declared that the “white media” seek to break up her troubled marriage to singer Bobby Brown, all the while enjoying sycophantic puff pieces from that same, supposedly racist white-owned media.

And as William McGowan has shown in his book, Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism, black staffers and editors in every major newsroom see to it that black public figures and social problems get softball treatment. For instance, corrupt, black Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry got away with murder for years, because black staffers at the Washington Post refused to expose him. And when white staffers tried to expose corruption in the Barry Administration, black staffers and editors sought to sandbag them. If the white reporters got beyond the sandbagging to write their stories, black editors like Milton Coleman spiked them. In Jill Nelson’s memoir of her time as a well-paid Post staffer, Volunteer Slavery, the ebulliently racist Nelson referred to her white superiors, such as socialist editor Ben Bradlee, as “white boys,” and bragged of having intervened to skew coverage of Barry, so that readers would not discover that a woman had charged the mayor with having raped her.

As William McGowan has written, the last thing a white, male, middle manager wants is racial trouble. As a result, when black media staffers cause trouble, white managers invariably roll over for them. Thus, black journalists enjoy a power in the newsroom vastly disproportionate to their numbers.

Had the media honestly reported on black corruption and black social pathologies, aggressive action could have been taken against them. Thus do black journalists carry a great burden of responsibility for the moral collapse of black America.

Racist blacks and their leftwing, white allies still push the myth of the independent, and thus persecuted, successful black man. In the revised, 1995 version of Andrew Hacker’s 1992 race book, Two Nations, the white political scientist suggested that a white conspiracy targeted successful black men such as Marion Barry, Mike Tyson, and O.J. Simpson.

You can’t make this stuff up.

So far from suffering under unfair press, Bonds has bragged that sportswriters spy on their colleagues for him. So, if a sportswriter whom Bonds has abused does not publicly attack him, but privately badmouths him, Bonds finds out about it – and feels retroactively vindicated in his viciousness!

3. There is no record of any whites being upset at the prospect of Bonds breaking Ruth’s “record.”

4. There is, however, a paper trail of blacks claiming that whites would be upset, if Bonds passed Ruth. Leonard Moore got his claim not from whites but as my colleague Lisa Fabrizio wrote two years ago, from one Barry Bonds.

In July, 2003, Bonds announced,

755 isn't a number that's always caught my eye--the only number I'm concerned with is Babe Ruth's. As a left-handed hitter, I wiped him out. That's it. And in the baseball world, Babe Ruth's everything, right? I got his (single season) slugging percentage, I got him on on-base, I got him on walks and then I'll take his (lifetime) home run record and that's it. Don't talk about him no more.

White people were never concerned about Barry Bonds overtaking Babe Ruth; that was Bonds’ own obsession! And why? Because Ruth was white, Bonds fancies that overtaking him would somehow drive white folks crazy, Bonds wants to present himself as a martyr, and race-baiting whites inflates his already outsized ego. As I said, the man is seeking to steal Hank Aaron’s life.

The truth of the matter is that Barry Bonds owes all of his success to white people. When he plays at Pac Bell Stadium, the people who pay to see him play and applaud him, are overwhelmingly white. Black folks avoid baseball like the plague – too many white faces on the field.

And all his life, Bonds has been treated like a king by whites. He reminds me of another black racist who has always lived off whites, and who has been more vicious to whites, the more they have supported him, movie director Spike Lee.

I’ll tell you, though, this is one white man who would be mighty angry, if Bonds “broke” Hank Aaron’s record. That in contrast to the spoiled baseball brat Bonds, Aaron actually did have to confront white racism, is just one of the many accomplishments that make him tower over Bonds. Aaron had to hit within a much larger strike zone, against pitchers who stood on a higher mound, in ball parks with much deeper outfields, with a ball that was not juiced up, and with at first none of the watering-down of pitching that expansion caused, and later, only a bit of it. And last but not least, Aaron didn’t get his power out of a syringe, bottle, cream or pill. His muscles were his own. If Aaron had had Bonds’ many advantages, he’d have hit over 900 dingers, instead of 755.

The racial significance of Bonds and Leonard Moore’s statements is that you had one black man, Bonds, express his hatred of white folks, and then another black man, Moore, use Bonds’ statement while hiding its source, and acting as though it expressed white racism, rather than Bonds’ black racism. And Moore’s racism, too, since he knew what he was doing.

I suppose that in an age in which black race hoaxes are produced as if on an assembly line, it would be hyperbole to call Bonds and Moore’s fabulation of “frightened” white racists a hoax. So, I’ll call it a hoaxette.

Imagine a white player making racist statements. But we don’t have to. When relief pitcher John Rocker made politically incorrect statements about the riders on New York’s 7 train, he was forced to undergo psychological counseling and publicly debase himself.

Actually, Rocker was never as openly racist as Bonds. (And if the people writing on Rocker had done any research, they would have known that his description bore no resemblance to the 7 train, which due to its heavily Asian ridership is known as the “Orient Express.” It sounded to me as if Rocker had never been on the 7 train.)

We need to stop comparing Barry Bonds to another foul-tempered, great left-handed hitter, Ted Williams, and start comparing him to another of baseball’s most vile racists, Ty Cobb.

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