Richie Incognito.
Sounds like a nickname for some low level Mafioso.
Just my opinion, of course.
Disagree. The players only care about who can help them win. Incognito was there for them. Martin was disconnected and shy, (aloof?).
Martin was unable to handle the situation like a man, so he went crying and took advantage of the new, wussified anti-bullying meme.
A real man would sit down with concerned parties, including coaches/management, and extract whatever apologies and or promises needed to move forward.
National Felon League is a huge waste of $$$. But an excellent piece by the writer of the article.
Just sayin'.
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I would rather see Martin become the kind of lawyer that ends up prosecueting guys like IIncognito.
I have a better chance of playing with Miami. Nobody will want to play with him in the NFL.
I don’t think that has anything to do with it. The players don’t want to rock the boat, and they want to win. Supporting Incognito is purely selfish on their part.
Sadly, much of hip hop and rap culture defines black America by the criminal and defiant actions of the black underclass. This ignorant stereotype is self-embraced by the very offspring of some of the worst victims of racism in the history of the US and is that behavior that further destroys upward mobility for blacks. And the ones who want to make their own way and to be their own man are disdained by those stuck in the stereotype. It’s no surprise that an ignorant white football player can ape the fragile ego and violent bravado of the ghetto. Any fool can do that.
It’s been a long time, but good, or great football players can come from all sorts of personalities. Just like any other sport. You can’t just predict who’s a great player because they come across as loud and aggressive.
It seems like they were trying to “Gomer Pyle”(Full Metal Jacket)the guy into being something he was not.
Talk about a media frenzy about a whole lot of nuthin.
You would think the collegiate system would help players to adjust to being something less than an everyday thug.. Regardless if they go pro or not.
No, Whitlock would have hit it out of the park if he excluded the above line. Black youth glorifying gang culture and ridiculing education has nothing to do with "the tenets of white supremacy and bigotry" being injected into popular black youth culture. This is all on black people. It's black youth who are acting as gangstas and glorifying that culture. Whites have nothing to do with it, and I'm confident that this disgusting subculture would exist even if white bigotry never existed.
As it stands now, this black subculture is leading non-black people to rightly be weary of segments of the black culture rather than the Whitlock reverse version of weariness of blacks leading to this negative culture. Black people need to take responsibility of this and clean it up.
Mass incarceration? Tell us all about that, Jason.
Anything Whitlock says is going to be wrong...
Martin is a product of the wussification of American men.
Martin will never play another down in the NFL. Its all about how much money he can get out of Miami and the NFL now...
The best thing about the NFL is that it keeps a lot of mean nasty guys off the streets even though a few are managing to reach the streets more often.
What can we expect from a culture that labels conservative Afro-Americans as Uncle Toms ?