Here we go, now you can’t even get away from the liberal spin and race BS while watching sports. ESPN’s analyst Robert Parker recently ripped into Robert Griffin III for having a white girlfriend and possibly being a Republican.
Braids. A white fiancée. Being a African American.
These were all topics an edition of ESPN’s “First Take” that concerned former Baylor QB and Washington Redskins star Robert Griffin III.
When asked about what RG3 had to say about being an African American quarterback, ESPN panelist Rob Parker, an African American himself, (Twitter handle @RobParkerESPN) had this to say. Transcriptions came from Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post.
‘But time and time we keep hearing this, so it just makes me wonder deeper about him,’ Parker said. ‘And I’ve talked to some people down in Washington D.C., friends of mine, who are around and at some of the press conferences, people I’ve known for a long time. But my question, which is just a straight honest question. Is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother?’
He continued with, ‘Well, [that] he’s black, he kind of does his thing, but he’s not really down with the cause, he’s not one of us,’ Parker explained. ‘He’s kind of black, but he’s not really the guy you’d really want to hang out with, because he’s off to do something else.’
And then when he was asked why, he answered with this.
‘Well, because I want to find out about him,’ Parker said. ‘I don’t know, because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he’s a Republican, which, there’s no information [about that] at all. I’m just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like I’ve got black skin but don’t call me black. So people got to wondering about Tiger Woods early on.’
What is it with these people who define themselves and others based on skin color? At least Stephen A. Smith made some sense, read the whole thing for his response.
Via Gateway Pundit
Update: Linked by The First Street Journal – thanks!
So much for America under our great Post-Racial POTUS , huh ? The signs of racial trauma are escalating everywhere. I went into Churchs Chicken with my wife and 4 of my Grandbabies after church Sunday for some chicken. Waiting in line we were the only whites there and every employee was black. The music on the intercom was blaring loudly and the hit song they were playing you ask? Kill Whitey ! My grandson said , Papa,listen to that song”. I started gyrating and bumping and grinding to the kids amazement as the jungle beat flowed into my inner blackness. Soon,they joined me in our defiant dance and we turned an awkward moment into another great inner-city outing on a beautiful Sabbath. We smiled and joked confidantly much to the dismay of the surly and belligerant staff who didn’t even say thank you when we payed . Yes, besides being white and conservative I have my CCW license. Oh,and I’m Irish ! Freckles and all.
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Isn’t it ironic that Parker’s comments would be right at home with the KKK of the 50′s and 60′s, not wanting black men with white women.
Thank God MLK Jr is dead and gone, so he doesn’t have to see how perverted his Dream has become. The man (MLK Jr) may have had many faults, but he had a wonderful Dream about being judged for your actions, and not the amount of melanin in your skin.
So congrats Parker, Obama, Rice — you’ve managed to scuttle race relations and show that racism is alive and well, largely on the Left.
So, um, yay?
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If Eli Manning wore his hair in dreads and had a black girl friend, and some ESPN analyst made comments that he didn’t think Mr Manning was white enough, that would be said analyst’s last day on ESPN.
The Washington Redskins aren’t paying Mr Griffin to be black; they are paying him to run and throw the ball and lead the offense to score touchdowns.
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The only thing I would change is Eli Manning having dreads. It would make more sense if he had something like a mullet, and the “analyst” claimed said mullet shows some legitimate “whiteness”. Your overall point, however, is spot-on.
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Another irony is that Frederick Douglass was a Republican, and oh yeah, was married to a white woman (Helen Pitts). I guess in Parker’s worldview, Douglass was simply just another “cornball brother” (whatever that is), who wasn’t “down with the cause”, whatever that means.
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I think parker was more concerned that RG3 may be a Republican…gasp.
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UPDATE: Parker has been canned by ESPN, so there are some level-headed people left in the world.
Oh, and in other news, Obama is more like a moderate Reagan-era Repub, and totes not a Socialist. And Andrea Mitchell isn’t Left Leaning at all, she categorically denies it.
What is in the water Leftists are drinking, lead?
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Not lead but stupidium, symbol Sp. The most devastating intellectual element thus far discovered.
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Get rid of race baiting and most of the tripe spewed by the left would go away.
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