What does the heck does that mean, Parker was asked.
“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 forged on, oblivious to reason or sanity. “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.” 온라인카지노
What does that matter, Parker was asked.
“Well, because I want to find out about him,” Parker answered. “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.”
Skip Bayless, the writer out of Texas, tried to defuse the comments by asking Parker about RGIII’s braids. Now that’s different,” our newest racist said. “To me, that’s very urban and makes you feel like…wearing braids, you’re a brother. You’re a brother if you’ve got braids on.”
Stephen A. Smith, another black on the panel who played college basketball for Clarence “Big House” Gaines, was drawn into the diatribe and took a deep breath before he started. “Well, first of all let me say this: I’m uncomfortable with where we just went.
“RGIII, the ethnicity, the color of his fiancée is none of our business. It’s irrelevant. He can live his life any way he chooses. The braids that he has in his hair, that’s his business, that’s his life. I don’t judge someone’s blackness based on those kinds of things. I just don’t do that. I’m not that kind of guy.
“What I would say to you is that the comments he made are fairly predictable,” Smith went on. “I think it’s something that he may feel, but it’s also a concerted effort to appease the masses to some degree, which I’m finding relatively irritating, because I don’t believe that the black athlete has any responsibility whatsoever to have to do such things.
“Let me say this clearly. I don’t know of anybody who goes into something trying to be the best black anything. We understand that. That’s a given,” Smith said. “But I do think it’s important to acknowledge a level of pride and a feeling of a level of accomplishment for being somebody who happens to be of African American descent, who competes and achieves and accomplishes things on the highest level while also bringing attention – to some degree anyhow – to the pride that they feel being black.
“Because they’re allowing themselves to be a reminder to those who preceded them, who worked so hard, accomplished and achieved so much, but were denied the accolades that that individual is receiving.”
Later in the segment, Parker was asked to clarify whether he was judging Griffin’s blackness and he still seemed confused. “I didn’t mean it like that,” he said.
“We could sit here and be honest, or we can be dishonest. And you can’t tell me that people in the barbershops or people that talk, they look at who your spouse is. They do. And they look at how you present yourself. People will say all the time, you’re not gonna get a job in corporate America wearing those braids. It happens all the time. Let’s not act like it doesn’t, because it does.”
Needless to say, Rob Parker has been suspended “indefinitely” by ESPN for his insensitive and caustic comments. Most people could care less what color Robert Griffin III is unless they are racists and Rob Parker needs to define his life’s stance before he tries to tackle RGIII. This country clearly doesn’t need such garbage on ESPN.