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John Rocker replaces Newt Gingrich as Poster Boy for the Satanic
Church of the American Flag - The Starrs and Barrs rejoice!!
John Rocker agreed to have his brains examined after his disparaging comments about almost everyone except white males. While we have some First Amendment concerns about Major League Baseball bothering John about being such a jerk, his having spoken out loud and saying what most "got mine, to hell with everybody else Americans" think but don't say out loud in this politically correct world was worth the price - an admission of sorts and certainly an insight to the white male American psyche's racism, sexism, bigotry, ethnocentricity and homophobic freedom of expression.
Out of context or not, Rocker told SI, "Imagine having to take the Number 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing."
"The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?" Rocker also took a verbal shot at Japanese women who drive Toyotas. It could even be suggested Rocker might be unpatriotic for his blasting four-time losers. The criminal justice industry in this country, namely lawyers, judges, prison guards and construction companies could know no such boon without crime generally, the war on drugs specifically and a whole lot of people getting busted more than once.
Discrimination and hate for no reason against minorities and women and homosexuals and lesbians and people with purple hair is as close to evil as it gets. Rocker is only saying what is is for all too many in this country. But let's don't get started on the Cuban exile community in Florida, or the Republican hipocrites, speaking of evil so deep it killed President Kennedy.
Baseball is as American as apple pie. Baseball players are as diverse as America anymore. Is there a place in baseball for Pete Rose who gambled on the game? Or John Rocker who missed the spirit of Jackie Robinson's struggle with baseball's history and evolution? Probably so. But it's only because baseball is as American as America with it's racist, sexist, bigoted, ethnocentric and homophobic attitudes. That's the bad news. The good news is that these old thinking people will gamble or just die off someday. In the meantime the Starrs and Barrs followers, and the Satanic Church of the American Flag membership as usual enjoy their particular brands of First Amendment and what they call Freedom to Hate for no Reason.
To be continued...
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John Rocker interview excerpt...
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