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In the News :: Barry Bonds Indicted

Baseball's career home run record breaker ... Barry Bonds ... was indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice on Thursday ... The charges stem from allegedly lying under oath to a federal grand jury that was investigating the use of steroids among professional athletes ...

In 2003 ... Barry Bonds stated that he had never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs in front of a grand jury ... Bonds' indictment follows a four-year investigation into steroid use by top athletes ...

~Papi Chulo~

Race and Ethnicity III: Barry Bonds is a Jerk ?!?

[Note :: This BLOG was originally written before Barry Bonds surpassed the career home run record.]

I am not a huge baseball fan ... I may not follow the game as an avid fan would ... but unless you are living under a tree ... you know that Barry Bonds is about to break a very massive record ... He is on the cusp of breaking Hank Aaron's career home run record of 755 ...

Ok ... so why is this a topic for my Race and Ethnicity series ???  Because 60 years after baseball integration ... Black and white fans live in separate and unequal territories ... Here is some evidence ...