I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.