Raiikun
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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales It is interesting indeed. Rush comments that a black quaterback is getting better treatment and an easy ride because he's black In 2007, four years after Rush made his comments, McNabb told HBO’s Bryant Gumbel that, as a black quarterback, he felt pressured to live up to unreasonable expectations. “There’s not that many African-American quarterbacks, so we have to do a little bit extra,” McNabb said. “Because the percentage of us playing this position, which people didn’t want us to play . . . is low, so we do a little extra.” McNabb’s analysis is flawed in one respect: Black quarterbacks face more pressure not because people don’t want them to play, but because people — primarily the sports media and the NFL — want a black QB to hurry up and make history by joining the pantheon of the greatest QBs of all time. One will, eventually, but, in the meantime, average-to-good black QBs face unrealistic pressures to be that guy. That says more about the media and the league than it does about the ability of blacks to be great quarterbacks, and Rush said so. Six years later, he’s still being punished for it. — Stephen Spruiell quote:
It does seem sad that poor, sensible Rush Limbaugh is so misunderstood. I dunno about "sensible" (I don't care for Rush myself, he's a blowhard), but it is pretty obvious people like to take things he says out of context to spin them as far worse than what he really said.
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