Guillen insists ‘Crazy Ozzie’ label is due to age, but e-mails say otherwise

Uhh, Ozzie...John Arthur died. You can’t get your copy of “Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History” signed.

And that’s why he doesn’t take those racist e-mails too seriously.

‘’If you send an e-mail and use the n-word to Jacque Jones or Kenny Williams, Harold Baines, that’s different because they feel that,’’ Guillen explained. ‘’They’re from this country. I don’t feel it that way. I laugh because people are ignorant.’’

Guillen knows there’s a double standard. Could you imagine if he were arrested on a DUI charge, as St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was?

‘’Believe me, if I got a DUI, a lot of people would ask for me to resign,’’ he said. ‘’Tony got a slap on the wrist, but not because he’s white and I’m Latino. Tony has been in this game for a long time. My situation is different because we have different personalities. But if I got caught, wow.

‘’The other guy, ‘Oh, he was just having fun and had bad luck.’ Me? ‘It’s about time they caught him drinking and driving.’ Not because I’m Latino, but because of who I am. That’s just me. I can’t make other people think that way about race, though, or listen to what I say.’’