Posted on 02/08/2016 1:08:13 PM PST by all the best
Superstar NFL quarterback Cam Newton is black, and even though many people loudly insist that shouldn’t matter, it is precisely those people who are always making a preposterously huge deal of it.
Chief among these offenders is Mr. Newton himself, who last Wednesday told reporters at a press conference that the reason he sometimes faces criticism is not because he’s a high-profile sports star and all of them sometimes face criticism—no, it is clearly his status as a Negroidal American that inspires the negative comments:
I’m an African-American quarterback that may scare a lot of people because they haven’t seen nothing that they can compare me to.
In truth, I’ve seen thousands of people I can compare him to—namely, African Americans who deflect any possible criticism by blaming it on racism. I’ve seen this for two generations and counting.
The following day, ESPN Radio host Bomani Jones—a black man who approaches black issues from a black perspective in the blackest way he knows—said that Cam Newton makes many white Americans uncomfortable because he is not a shuffling and compliant goody-two-shoes black man but rather an unapologetically “blackety-black†man. Jones opined that there has been a “historical lineage that indicates a lot has been done to keep black people from playing quarterback†and that the “simple reality†is that our wicked nation “does not like black people very much.â€
USA Today published an article on Newton’s blackety-blackness that featured a quote by Doug Williams, the former Washington Redskins quarterback who in 1988 became the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl. Williams constructs a self-contained logical Guilt Loop wherein anyone who dares to criticize Newton is in denial of their racist motivations:
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Exactly.
OK, I believe he has the most potential then.
He needs to sit down with Micheal Jordan and sort this stuff out.
So....is our POTUS
The Greatest Show on Turf receivers for the Rams—Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt—would do the same. I remember criticizing them at them time because they would flop rather than take a hit or fight for extra yardage when they had already secured a first down. It was frustrating to watch but now I see the effectiveness of it. If the difference is an extra meaningless yard and the clock doesn’t matter, step out of bounds.
Newton had a crappy day against a good defense, then acted like a petulant child after the game. Great QB now but his shelf life is running out - when the wheels are gone he will not be effective. Hope he grows up before failure becomes a more common occurrence.
I have a hard time watching ESPN anymore. It’s race all the time. On almost every show, race this, race that. PC has also invaded almost every show. Around the Horn has become nothing but a bunch of wussy, race-baiting PC clones. His and Hers is a joke. ESPN is losing bunches of viewers, but I think they could care less.
Russell Wilson, Seahawks QB, is black. He is much more gracious than this idiot. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him mention his race. He’s been going to the Children’s Hospital here every Tues spending time with very sick kids for some time and until a year or two ago, most weren’t even aware of it.
Cam needs to put a sock in his piehole and shut up and start doing things for the community.
BTW - does he want to discuss how many blacks there are on NFL and NBA teams v.s. white and the huge salaries they are getting? Some may or may not like Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman of the Seahawks (both great players IMHO and both came essentially from nothing) who both do camps for underprivileged kids in their communities in off-season. They also give back to the community here.
The right man won and his career ends while hitting the highest note, instead of being eaten alive while jumping the shark.
Moreover, and it's sad it had to be this way, but the right man lost, and Cam Newton got exactly what he needed, too,
He gave reasons all season and post season by his behavior when he was winning, but more importantly, as shown by his behavior during and after his most humiliating public defeat.
What comes next is up to Cam Newton.
His 2015 NFL season ends with a final score of: Proverbs 16-18.
Congratulations, Peyton Manning! Two-time Super Bowl Champion!
The SuperBowl Half-time show was a tribute to Black Power, however, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panthers, who succeeded about as well as the Carolina Panthers. Beyonce’s fake cartridge belt may have contained a few actual cartridges, minus their primers. The large X that the 50 black women in paramilitary uniforms and black berets formed, of course, honored Malcolm X, the racist white-hater. Was the conventional US media silent on this? Then go read the British press!
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