Some things are beyond parody

Cullen Jones would like a word ...

 

Helluva post for #11,111.

 

If she's going to talk about perspective, she needs to take a step back and really look at the situation.

One is a kid who got caught on camera smoking out of a bong at a college party.

The other (Carmelo) is a guy who wears hundreds of thousands of dollars of jewelry around his neck, hangs out at various high profile clubs and surrounds himself with questionable people.

Of course one is going to catch a bad rap compared to the other.

 

Whitlock weighs in.

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/9183470/Quit-crying-double-standard-over-Phelps

 

Why bring race into this at all? Equality takes a step back with these types of columns.

 

Yuck. Awful. Just awful writing. Can't handle it.

 

Seriously....this is just dumb. She's right, there is selective perspective out there in the sports world, but people don't hate Barry Bonds because he's black. They hate him because he broke the most sacred record in all of sports by cheating.

I could go on about this, but I'm not. I'll just say that it's black folks like Jemele, who appear bent on uncovering racism even in places it doesn't exists, that actually further support stereotypes that might otherwise fade without their apologists.

Oh, but by the way....can you imagine what people would say if Phelps were walking around in jeans hanging off his ass, wearing an oversized white tee wearing a 'dorag under a cockeyed Phillies cap -- tags still attached -- and slumped over by the five-pound gold cross, not gold medals, dangling from his neck?

I don't care if you're white, black, Mexican, or Martian, you dress like that, you're asking to get labeled as less than intelligent. Appearances aren't everything, but c'mon, common sense, or lack thereof, goes a long way....

 

And to clarify....no, Barry Bonds doesn't dress like that. But some of the others she named -- Rasheed, Carmelo -- have dressed like that before.

And now I'm done.

 

My main issue with her column is she's all over the map. Is she promoting decriminalization of pot use, or stronger penalties for drunk driving? Is Phelps being treated to harshly, or not harshly enough? And where are her examples that Mayo or Melo were treated worst by the critics than Phelps. I never saw it. The fact is, most people only pay attention to Phelps every four years or so, like his DUI at 19, or his recent incident at 23. If she's going to suggest racism is at play here, then she should use some examples of how this is so. Also, it would be easy to understand her point if she would just pick an idea and stick with it throughout, because I'm not even sure what her point was.