By Mark Vester

Welterweight star Floyd Mayweather Jr. continues to play the race card. He says the media and the general public are against him because of his skin color. He still feels that his status in the sport would be far greater if his skin color was white.

“Sometimes I'll sit back, I'll be in my theater sometimes, and I'll think: 'Imagine if I was the same fighter that I am, and I was the same person that I am, and I was from another country. Can you just imagine how big I'd be?' But I wouldn't change my life for nothing in the world. There's nothing like being young, black and rich. But there are certain things you think about. If Floyd Mayweather was white, I'd be the biggest athlete in America. The biggest, the biggest. I know that for a fact," Mayweather said to ESPN.com.

Mayweather complained that nobody treats him in a fair manner. He made this comparison to the media’s longtime treatment of Oscar De La Hoya. He says the media crucifies him for every wrong move and overlooks all of De La Hoya’s faults.

"One thing you never hear. You never hear anything negative about Oscar De La Hoya," Mayweather said. "Anything he do negative, it gets swept under the rug."

He then attacked the HBO broadcast team. He said Larry Merchant doesn’t know anything about boxing and called trainer Emanuel Steward an “Uncle Tom,” an obvious insult to Steward for not defending him enough on the air.

"Larry Merchant don't know nothing about boxing," Mayweather said. "What's that other guy's name [at HBO]? [Emanuel Steward]. He's an Uncle Tom. One thing you can't knock. You can not knock my talent."

Mayweather faces Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

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