By Nicholas Stix
I’m watching an NFL highlight film here, and the white guy who is doing the main description (you can’t see anyone) mentions that a black Chiefs player is “coming off a rough week. He got arrested last week.”
A black guy in the studio who sounds like one of the dumber felons from the projects, so I’m guessing he’s an ex-player—but still doesn’t belong in that studio!—immediately breaks in with, “That’s wrong, that’s wrong.”
Later in the highlights, the white guy shows a black receiver catching a touchdown pass, and notes, “He came into the game with only one touchdown all season.
Immediately, RBM interjects, “He got a lot more in college.”
Now, the white guy feels intimidated into having to submit to this mini-mau-mauing, and says, “Yes, he caught a lot more in college.”
RBM doesn’t grasp that bringing up the player’s college career makes him look even worse as a pro. His operating principle is, ‘Anytime a white devil says anything less than slavish praise about a black, you must criticize and/or correct him.’
I used to work with people like that in New York. I’d remark that Stephanie Mills hadn’t cut many albums after her meteoric early career, and the nicest colleague in the unit, an attractive, slender, 20-something, would respond, “Elizabeth Taylor is a whore!”
Meanwhile, the white guy was operating on the Chris Collinsworth principle: ‘Please, don’t let me say anything that could be interpreted as racist, and end my announcing career.’
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I used to work in a department in which most of my co-workers were black. We talked sports a lot. If I would mention that a black running back had a poor day, by reflex one of them would say "he didn't have any blocking."
This happened all the time. They make these excuses by reflex action.
David In TN
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