Seems to be a common theme among the left. I guess any criticism of any black person is just not allowed anymore. If it is done, it is all about race, not the actions of the person.

Washington Post columnist Clinton Yates ripped into America’s reaction to a fiery postgame interview with Seattle Seahawks’ cornerback Richard Sherman on Monday’s The Lead with Jake Tapper. Yates said that the reaction to Sherman’s interview was racially insensitive and an example of how “plantation politics” continues to characterize American life even in subtle and unconscious ways. [...]

“These sort of plantation politics that people allow to move into their mindset about everything permeates way too much of society,” Yates added. “I really don’t appreciate it and I think it’s something that people need to understand why they feel that way.”

“It’s not just because they happen to be racist, but it’s because this is the way America works,” he concluded.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/wapo-columnis...s-society/

I agree that there is a social element there, and race is a significant factor.

The rant he made is perfectly acceptable in sections of black America, and completely unacceptable in sections of predominately white America.

(01-22-2014 08:21 PM)Claw Wrote:  I agree that there is a social element there, and race is a significant factor.

The rant he made is perfectly acceptable in sections of black America, and completely unacceptable in sections of predominately white America.

It's also completely acceptable on WWF or to some degree after boxing matches, but not what normally goes on during interviews after NFL games. Most NFL guys choose their words more carefully because they don't want to at some point be force to eat them..

(01-22-2014 08:42 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(01-22-2014 08:21 PM)Claw Wrote:  I agree that there is a social element there, and race is a significant factor.

The rant he made is perfectly acceptable in sections of black America, and completely unacceptable in sections of predominately white America.

It's also completely acceptable on WWF or to some degree after boxing matches, but not what normally goes on during interviews after NFL games. Most NFL guys choose their words more carefully because they don't want to at some point be force to eat them..

And eat them he will. Denver by 7.

(01-22-2014 08:21 PM)Claw Wrote:  I agree that there is a social element there, and race is a significant factor.

The rant he made is perfectly acceptable in sections of black America, and completely unacceptable in sections of predominately white America.

Frankly, I had no problem w/ what he said. I even sort of liked it.

My thought was Erin Andrews is completely out of her element in this job, and how much time on the casting couch did it take for her to get the gig.

I didn't have a problem with his rant and fail to see why someone would. It was clean and apolitical.