This week on Bryant Gumble's HBO show "Real Sports" Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb stated that black quarterbacks are criticized differently by the media and talk shows than their white bretheren. The mostly white media accused McNabb of "whining" because of his 0-2 start to the season despite the fact that the interview was taped during training camp in August.
Once again we don't allow "context" to interfere with a controversial story.
Talk shows and newspapers, mostly manned by whites, almost unanimously said McNabb didn't know what he was talking about. Their defense was the media attacks over the years on Peyton Manning and John Elway to name two.
But, McNabb says there's no categorizing Manning as a "white" quarterback while the subject of colour is constantly brought up when McNabb is being censured.
RFacial times have changed since, fifty years ago, a white Texan named John Griffin changes his skin colour so that he could find first hand the daily hostility and humiliation blacks in American undergo on a daily basis. The result was the best-selling book "Black Like Me".
Most people of colour will tell you that racisims has simply gone underground on this continent. Is McNabb right or wrong? I'm not sure it's wise to make judgement until, like John Griffin, I'm able to walk a mile in his shoes.
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