How the Left keeps Blacks down

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How the Left keeps Blacks down

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2G5GwnQMmE

BRISTOL, Conn. (CBSDC) –Robert Griffin III might be the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year in a season that has his Redskins competing for the NFC East. But even with all his accomplishments on the field, one ESPN commentator thinks the former Heisman Trophy winner could be a “cornball brother” because of his white fiancée and speculation of the quarterback’s political leanings.

Rob Parker, a contributor for ESPN’s “First Take” morning show, questioned Griffin’s standing as a black man, asking whether the quarterback was a “cornball brother,” and later saying that the black quarterback is “not one of us.”

“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 said this morning. “He’s kind of black, but he’s not really the kind of guy you want to hang out with cause he’s off to something else.”

During the “First Take” segment, Parker pointed out Griffin’s engagement to his white fiancée, Rebecca Liddicoat. Parker also speculated that the Redskins quarterback might be a Republican, but that Griffin’s braids added to the “authenticity” of being black.

“I want to find about him,” Parker said about the rookie quarterback. “I don’t know because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiance. Then there was all this talk about him being a Republican, which there’s no information at all. I’m just trying to dig deeper into why he has an issue.”

At the end of the segment, Parker said that this was the type of talk about Griffin that is being brought up in the barbershops.

ESPN has subsequently responded to Parker’s comments.

A spokesman for the network told CBSSports.com the comments “were inappropriate and we are evaluating our next steps.”

The segment came about after Griffin responded to a question in a press conference on Wednesday after practice about Martin Luther King, Jr. Currently, Griffin is one of three black quarterbacks starting in the NFL.

“For me, you don’t ever want to be defined by the color of your skin,” Griffin told reporters on Wednesday. “You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That’s what I’ve tried to go out and do.

“I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don’t have to be defined by that.”

Griffin’s status for Sunday’s game against Cleveland is up in the air following an MCL sprain suffered in last week’s win against Baltimore. Griffin would not return to the game.

RGIII A ‘Cornball Brother’ Due To White Fiancee, Possible Republican Leanings


Even if the rumors about RGIII's political leanings are false, one can see how hard it is for blacks to leave the Democrat's slave-run plantation.
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Rob Parker, the commentator who created controversy when he questioned whether Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is a “cornball brother” because he has a white fiancee, has been fired by ESPN.

“Rob Parker’s contract expired at year end. Evaluating our needs and his work, including his recent RGIII comments, we decided not to renew,” an ESPN spokesman said in a written statement.

ESPN can spin this as simply a decision not to renew his contract, rather than a firing, but the reality is that ESPN specifically stated on December 20 that Parker had been suspended for 30 days, and as of December 20, ESPN was expecting Parker back at the end of his 30-day suspension. (He made the comments on December 13, so a 30-day suspension from that date would have ended on January 12.)

So why did Parker’s discipline change from a 30-day suspension to termination? ESPN isn’t saying, but it may be that the network was unhappy with a recent interview Parker gave in which he said that ESPN knew what he was going to say on the air before he said it. In that interview, Parker also seemed to backtrack on his previous apology, complaining that people took his “cornball brother” statement out of context.

Parker has long been known for drawing attention to himself by stirring up controversy, and it’s unsurprising that he eventually took it too far and got himself fired. But ESPN is hardly blameless in all this: Parker made his comments on ESPN First Take, a show that celebrates provocation, and at first ESPN’s producers were so pleased with Parker’s comments about Griffin that the network re-aired the comments on Best of First Take. It was only later, after ESPN was criticized for airing the comments, that the network apologized.

And now, much later, ESPN has finally done what many viewers said it should have done from the beginning, and fired Parker.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/08/espn-fires-rob-parker/


Of course the cultures within ESPN, the NFL, and other sporting organizations actually promote the kind of attitude Parker displayed (which is endemic in left-wing black American culture) and they only act against it when it becomes obviously out of hand. But perhaps this also signals a welcome change within those infiltrated organizations; an admission that blacks can be racist too.
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bcspace wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2G5GwnQMmE

BRISTOL, Conn. (CBSDC) –Robert Griffin III might be the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year in a season that has his Redskins competing for the NFC East. But even with all his accomplishments on the field, one ESPN commentator thinks the former Heisman Trophy winner could be a “cornball brother” because of his white fiancée and speculation of the quarterback’s political leanings.

Rob Parker, a contributor for ESPN’s “First Take” morning show, questioned Griffin’s standing as a black man, asking whether the quarterback was a “cornball brother,” and later saying that the black quarterback is “not one of us.”

“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 said this morning. “He’s kind of black, but he’s not really the kind of guy you want to hang out with cause he’s off to something else.”

During the “First Take” segment, Parker pointed out Griffin’s engagement to his white fiancée, Rebecca Liddicoat. Parker also speculated that the Redskins quarterback might be a Republican, but that Griffin’s braids added to the “authenticity” of being black.

“I want to find about him,” Parker said about the rookie quarterback. “I don’t know because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiance. Then there was all this talk about him being a Republican, which there’s no information at all. I’m just trying to dig deeper into why he has an issue.”

At the end of the segment, Parker said that this was the type of talk about Griffin that is being brought up in the barbershops.

ESPN has subsequently responded to Parker’s comments.

A spokesman for the network told CBSSports.com the comments “were inappropriate and we are evaluating our next steps.”

The segment came about after Griffin responded to a question in a press conference on Wednesday after practice about Martin Luther King, Jr. Currently, Griffin is one of three black quarterbacks starting in the NFL.

“For me, you don’t ever want to be defined by the color of your skin,” Griffin told reporters on Wednesday. “You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That’s what I’ve tried to go out and do.

“I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don’t have to be defined by that.”

Griffin’s status for Sunday’s game against Cleveland is up in the air following an MCL sprain suffered in last week’s win against Baltimore. Griffin would not return to the game.

RGIII A ‘Cornball Brother’ Due To White fiancée, Possible Republican Leanings


Even if the rumors about RGIII's political leanings are false, one can see how hard it is for blacks to leave the Democrat's slave-run plantation.



Oh, you just stepped into it, bc. That's fine because I need a little time out on this issue, given the last week or so.

It could also be the most of the leftists here are just to tired of projecting their own racism onto those who have differing views of racial issues and too weary of being beaten senseless by some of the best minds in the nation (who happen to be black) who, according to them, should be on the "civil rights" plantation with Col. Karl Sanders Jackson and the rest of the axis of permanent racial grievance.
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Re: How the Left keeps Blacks down

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Oh, you just stepped into it, bc. That's fine because I need a little time out on this issue, given the last week or so


No prob. I know enough black history to show that white liberals and Democrat house Negroes have been keeping them down. Shall we start with Jim Jones, the whore of American Marxists (Democrat Party) before he took out nearly a thousand (majority black and 303 children) followers along with himself?

by the way, this incident shows, by left wing arguments and mentality, that we should ban Kool-Aid. It's just too easy for someone to poison it.
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