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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Randall Cunningham, Dante Culpepper, also effective as long as their legs were good.
That Von Miller was like a chainsaw.
"Hey Jerry, how you like me now?"
I am asking here not saying:
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I don’t think he’s in any danger of ever displacing someone like Anquan Boldin or Warrick Dunn as NFL Player of the Year. Character is color blind; you either have it, or you don’t.
Good job there, Cam’s “preacher” daddy: You raised a self-absorbed punk.
All credit to Wade Phillips, but having talent like that makes anybody look good.
He’s a loser, black or not.
why not adopt a persona akin to Walter Payton, sportsmanship extraordinaire or Robert Smith of the Minnesota Vikings, "They pay me to score touchdowns. Not act like an idiot when I do."
blaming racism for his failures will get him everywhere
Be careful - remember what happened to Rush when he criticized Donovan “throw it in the dirt” McNabb?
Russel Wilson last year, for one. His pass near the goal line was intercepted, and the Patriots won. It was a horrible moment for him. That pass lost the game. His press conference following the Superbowl loss was full of humility- he took full responsibility- and praise for his teammates and the Patriots, with a positive message for the next season. He acted like a man, not a petulant child.
Roger Staubach did, but that was a LONG time ago.
At some point, white people need to understand that thug black people will be neurotic till the day they die.....There is nothing we can do about it...respect his athleticism but totally forget the person...it won’t change no matter how hard you try....it is in stone.
Okay, darn - then give him the Lombardi Trophy because he’s black...
Bfl !
Wait... Cam Newton is black? I guess that means John Kerry served in Vietnam!
“I’m an African-American quarterback that may scare a lot of people”
Apparently you were not too scary last night, big shot.
And oh-yeah—you don’t seem to be smart enough to realize that it’s best to do your bragging after the game.
Was Von Miller bragging? No, he was worried about his friend and former teammate, Johnny Manziel. Von Miller was headed down the same road Johnny is right now, but he turned his life around.
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