Mr. Barry Bonds in recent declarations accuses the people of Boston of being racist.
People in Boston don't need my defense, but getting to know some of them and sharing public transportation with them for two weeks makes me feel to write in favor of them, and being grateful to them for such well treatment to all Dominicans who plays and live in Boston.
Bonds admitted in the Boston Globe article he has no firsthand experience, but said he has heard enough stories to form an opinion.
"Only what guys have said," Bonds said, "but that's been going on ever since my dad (Bobby) was playing baseball. I can't play like that. That's not for me, brother."
When the Globe reporter suggested the racial climate has changed in Boston, Bonds said, "It ain't changing. It ain't changing nowhere."
I've been to both San Francisco and Boston, both are great cities with great people, of course there's racism in both cities, but Bonds is the less indicated person to talk about it.
In Boston people love Pedro Martinez and David Ortiz, they both are black and from the poor third world country named Dominican Republic, they even love the speechless Manny Ramirez.
Bonds is the one who's having a war against the world, against the media, against himself and baseball, he's the one who's arrogant as any can be.
He's the one who got involved in a fight with white team mate Jeff Kent, he's the one making racial remarks.
One has to wonder if Bonds counts the 46 percent of nonwhites in Boston and 17.4 percent in the Boston metro area (according to the 2000 census) as "too racist" also?
Those are the kinds of things you should think about before making a declaration as damning as Bonds did.
Four years ago, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker was suspended by baseball commissioner Bud Selig for making racial and ethnic remarks about foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in a magazine interview that, as Selig said, "offended practically every element of society."
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