NAACP president outraged by McNabb column
You’ve got to feel for Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb. Not only does he have to play in Philadelphia, he’s surrounded by demagogues and morons…and I’m not just talking about Terrell Owens. No, in this case I’m talking about J. Whyatt Mondesire, the head of Philadelphia’s NAACP chapter. Mondesire seems to think that McNabb’s style of play panders to White stereotypes about African-American quarterbacks. Huh? Might it simply be that McNabb is simply doing whatever he thinks it takes to win football games? Why does it have to be about race? Why can’t McNabb simply be viewed as one of the best quarterbacks in the National Football League…who just happens to be African-American?
Of course, when you’re a DUMB@$$ like Mondesire, you have a disturbing tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.
PHILADELPHIA — The chief executive officer of the NAACP criticized the president of its Philadelphia branch Thursday for racially charged comments made about Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.
Bruce Gordon, who heads the Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, issued a statement calling McNabb “a great quarterback, an excellent role model and a class act” and said he intended to apologize for denigrating remarks made by Philadelphia chapter president J. Whyatt Mondesire.
“The NAACP has many civil rights issues that require our attention,” Gordon said. “Criticizing Donovan McNabb is not one of them.”
Mondesire, who also publishes the Philadelphia Sunday Sun, criticized the quarterback’s proclivity for passing in a Nov. 27 newspaper column. He wrote that McNabb’s tendency to run the ball early in his career “not only confused defenses, it also thrilled Eagles fans,” and that abandoning that element “by claiming that everybody expects black quarterbacks to scramble’ not only amounts to a breach of faith but also belittles the real struggles of black athletes who’ve had to overcome real racial stereotypcasting in addition to downright segregation.”
Mondesire said Thursday he was not speaking in his capacity as a branch leader. “This has nothing to do with the NAACP. It’s my opinion,” he said.
Of course it is…and this is exactly why Mr. Mondesire is our latest DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener. It’s one thing to express an opinion, but when you essentially call the quarterback of your local NFL team, who happens to be African-American, an “Uncle Tom”, you can’t expect not to take some (un)friendly fire. What can’t y’all just accept that McNabb is a phenomenally talented quarterback…who just happens to be African-American? Why does race always have to be part of the equation? If McNabb were white, Mondesire could say the same things without race ever being mentioned or implied. So why treat McNabb any differently?
It would seem that the only people for whom the color of McNabb’s skin is an issue are those who share his skin color…and those of y’all who insist on living off the injustices of the past will find it difficult to find the future. Give it a rest, willya??
