 Any time you write about race people get incensed Hill said in 2006 I recently wrote a column saying that there is just as much evidence against Lance Armstrong as there is against Barry Bonds and part of the reason there is this extraordinary benefit of the doubt extended to Lance is because he s white That s not the overwhelming reason mind you Just a factor in the whole equation I got a ton of mail about that one even though I posed the racial element in the next to last graf of the column 