beast
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8 years ago
I think this goes here (because it's Profootballtalk's writer's reactions to football events), but it's also might not be because it's political... if I put this in the wrong area, I'm sorry.

Warning political rant

I'm getting extremely tired of PFT's Darin Gantt using the race card... which I believe is mainly because I think he's incorrectly applying the race card to non-racist events... (and I would post this there, but they seem to automatically delete any criticize of the the writers). But I'm not sure if Darin Gantt understand how to define racist... as he's just keeps randomly throwing the racial idea out there, when the issue could equally go for white men...

Richard Sherman (as Richard Sherman often does) took an unnecessary, possible cheap shot at another player... this time the Bills kicker... and the wife of said kicker said Sherman acted like an animal, and said at her farm they castrated animals who acted like that.

Calling a black man an animal and threatening to remove the male part of his anatomy is so blatantly racist and straight out of the Jim Crow era

Darin Gantt  wrote:



First off, the wife reference to animal was "#ActLikeAnAnimalGetTreatedLike1"... so it was fairly clear she was calling the action of the unnecessary, possible cheap shot animal like... the "Act"... not the man.

Second off, Gantt is the one making it a racial issue... Gantt saying "Calling a black man an animal"... which implies it's different if it's a non-black man... what if someone calls a white man an animal? Is that alright? What about Asian? Why is Gantt make specific reference to black man? Would it be perfectly acceptable to him if Sherman was a different race?

Also correct me if I'm wrong, but don't ALL MALES of ALL RACES have testicles that could be castrated off? If I'm correct about that... then the wife's comments to me were totally and completely sexist (if anything).



Now in a post about "ESPN bringing Hank Williams Jr. back to MNF open"

Gantt just used the racist suggestion again, and then goes on to point out that he's wrong.

Gantt suggest "too political" = "letting non-white people and women talk"
then
Gantt point out how Hank Williams Jr. ... who's a white male, got fired for talking... he's contradicting himself with these points.

Now I don't follow political stuff that closely, but most of the time I've heard people complaining about political stuff from the NFL world... it has almost exclusive been about white people (especially the Sunday Night Football crews (al michaels, cris collinsworth, bob costas and others letting their views be known)... with a few exceptions like Stephen A. Smith and Jason Whitlock making political remarks from time to time.


Sorry for this rant, but I keep noticing a racial remark (sometimes small), and I keep seeing whom the writer is, and it keeps being the same person. I don't think this would be bothering me as much, if it were different people... but it seems to be the same person over and over that's catching my attention with this.

I feel as Gantt is working too hard, on trying to slip the racial issue into stories that aren't racial until he gets his hands on them. If that's political, then I think Gantt is being "too political" and I believe he's a white male also... so the phase "too political" is not limited to "non-white people and women" like he's claiming
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If this rant bothers anyone, I'm sorry about that... but I needed to get it out of my system, and PFT won't let you criticize their writers (they'll delete it)... they can dish it, but I guess they're too soft to take it.


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Cheesey
8 years ago
Beast, you made some VERY valid points.
Some people want to make EVERYTHING about race.
If you are a jerk and black, and someone says "He's a JERK!" It MUST be because he's black, NOT because he actually IS a JERK.
Once again, someone trying to give more "reasons" to push the races farther apart. Kind of like guys like Jesse Jackson and AL Sharpton constantly do. Make a living off of it, in fact.

Gantt seems to want to pander to those that want to make EVERYTHING about race, not about personal responsibility.
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