RGIII, “cornball brothers,” and the blackness code
Like Cosby, Tiger, Barack, Condi, and Colin, RG III will hear more challenges to his blackness in years to come. Luckily, he has his priorities lined up. When recently asked by a sports reporter what his biggest fear was about coming to Washington, D.C., to be an NFL quarterback, RG III had a simple answer: “You try not to fear too many things. I fear God.”
After receiving an outpouring of support from African Americans all over the country, and white Americans as well, RG III had this to say to his fans on Twitter about the whole ESPN incident: “I’m thankful for a lot of things in life, and one of those things is your support. Thank You.”
Pure class. He never bothered to dignify the claims of his critic, whose shrill commentary is a reflection not of Griffin’s blackness, but of Parker’s refusal to respect the rich diversity of his own people and the choices they make.
Blackness enforcers such as Parker are the ones fixated on race as America lurches forward to a truly post-racial society, one in which black people fall in love with white people and get married and few people care.
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Bishop on December 18, 2012 at 6:53 PM
Cornballs come in all shapes, sizes and hues. I’m more ageist about it. Think of the life RGIII leads and the life left-behind by this tired-coot.
Capitalist Hog on December 18, 2012 at 6:56 PM
I fully expect to turn into my grandfather…in about 50 years. At which point I will reply, “That’s Mr. Cornball to you, Sonny.”
Capitalist Hog on December 18, 2012 at 6:58 PM
RG3 is in a whole other league in class when compared to black QBs like Newton, who is kind of a brat. As an Eagles fan though (laugh if you want), I have to cheer against him. I hate the redskins the most simply because I find their fan base worse than Dallas’ and New York’s
He has got to cut the dreadlocks though, looks weird. Anytime now I expect him to say “welcome to good burger”
Flapjackmaka on December 18, 2012 at 6:59 PM
Your a Philly fan and you’re complaining about Redskins fans!!??!
Does not compute …
darwin on December 18, 2012 at 7:04 PM
Crazy – Obama is the biggest divider the land ever experienced.
MLK died for nada.
Schadenfreude on December 18, 2012 at 7:04 PM
Interest in racial differences is simply ignorance of what’s important in life. That’s especially true if one is concerned about one’s own race. It’s a waste of time. If you say that others force you to focus on race, that’s a lame excuse. Don’t blame others for your own choices. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic … I’m tired of hearing about it. What a waste of time.
Paul-Cincy on December 18, 2012 at 7:09 PM
Apparently you have never attended an Oakland Raiders home game.
Bishop on December 18, 2012 at 7:12 PM
Eagles fans make Raider fans look like Cub Scouts when it comes to lack of class and outright hooliganism.
Rio Linda Refugee on December 18, 2012 at 7:24 PM
This.
And as a Jints fan, hating the Redskins is almost genetic but I have nothing but the utmost respect for the class RGIII has shown during this entire episode.
2lbsTest on December 18, 2012 at 7:27 PM
Do you really believe that? You reject America’s ascension from Jim Crow because you disagree with some blacks?
I think that the precise ability to be enraged by free Black-Americans was why he died. He didn’t die for you or me to agree with anybody. He died because good-Americans agree that Jim Crow era brutality was pure evil.
You cite Hades like you’re auditioning for Slingblade. You appear to be about as sharp as BBT’s character.
Capitalist Hog on December 18, 2012 at 7:33 PM
You can’t believe in equal-rights and suggest that Martin Luther King Jr died for nothing. It sounds to me as if you prefer subservient Blacks.
Soon, we will be the minority. I don’t expect to embrace such utter BS then either.
Capitalist Hog on December 18, 2012 at 7:36 PM
True. But at the same time many those evils have just taken a different form. Black teens are dying and killing each other in alarming numbers. Many black kids in America get WORSE educations than they did when schools were segregated. Black babies are aborted at an rate that would make any Klansman smile. “No Vietnamese ever called me N****r” — no, but a whole lot of rappers do. And we still judge people by their race, the media is just as racist as it ever was, people just speak in different terms than they used to.
29Victor on December 18, 2012 at 7:41 PM
It is so hard to not judge by skin color when all the so called black leaders insist we do.
Slowburn on December 18, 2012 at 9:18 PM
What you can expect to embrace, Socialist Sow, is a permanent welfare class that is going to bankrupt the nation faster than the Bush Wars and Obama occupations.
And God help us when we finally run out of money to pay for them to sit around in their Section 8 apartments getting fat and sassy and addicted to crack. The Watts riots will look like a domestic disturbance in comparison. When that time comes, even if every one of us capable of wielding arms were to grab a shotgun and blaze away at any looting turd in range, we’ll be outnumbered so bad it won’t even be funny.
MelonCollie on December 18, 2012 at 11:43 PM
I have a dream of putting up a banner over a major road saying “The content of your character stinks!”
MelonCollie on December 18, 2012 at 11:44 PM