[washingtonismoney]

I'm not sure I know anyone who has dismissed Sherman's rant as inarticulate.

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Finally, I've lived in this country since I came to Stanford as an undergrad, but I have yet to understand people's desire to drag race into every contentious issue. You do realize that there are colors beyond black and white, and many of them are here on the Cardboard.

OK, let's address these.

1. You've said "know" in your first sentence, so I'm not refuting you. But I think many people have called him inarticulate. Here's a Twitter search; admittedly light on examples: https://twitter.com/search?q=richard%20s...f=realtime

Here's Richard Sherman with communications: https://twitter.com/search?q=richard%20s...s&src=typd

I don't want to call out specific people on my Facebook feed, but there were several there. So it's not a not-uncommon meme.

2. Race is an interesting one, as always. The "classiness!" folk do target white athletes on occasion -- Johnny Manziel; Jimmy Connors; McEnroe. And then there are gradations of this type of thinking. The first person I encountered who thought this way was my grandfather, who liked Barry Sanders's propensity to just hand the ball off to the ref. But this was more of a preference than something like the national freakout. (He is also black, which, again, goes to the point that it's complicated.) Then there are people who lose their damn mind when something like this happens.

So it's not as if "classiness!" is a pure ploy directed at young black and brown athletes to get them to behave in a way society at large would prefer them to. But there sure are a few people who felt that way: http://deadspin.com/dumb-people-say-stup...1504843629

But it definitely seems to me society gets a bit uncomfortable when young black and brown males, in particular, don't behave in exactly the way they expect. (Trayvon Martin smoked pot *once*.)

[washingtonismoney]

I'm not sure I know anyone who has dismissed Sherman's rant as inarticulate.

...
Finally, I've lived in this country since I came to Stanford as an undergrad, but I have yet to understand people's desire to drag race into every contentious issue. You do realize that there are colors beyond black and white, and many of them are here on the Cardboard.

OK, let's address these.

1. You've said "know" in your first sentence, so I'm not refuting you. But I think many people have called him inarticulate. Here's a Twitter search; admittedly light on examples: https://twitter.com/search?q=richard%20s...f=realtime

Here's Richard Sherman with communications: https://twitter.com/search?q=richard%20s...s&src=typd

I don't want to call out specific people on my Facebook feed, but there were several there. So it's not a not-uncommon meme.

2. Race is an interesting one, as always. The "classiness!" folk do target white athletes on occasion -- Johnny Manziel; Jimmy Connors; McEnroe. And then there are gradations of this type of thinking. The first person I encountered who thought this way was my grandfather, who liked Barry Sanders's propensity to just hand the ball off to the ref. But this was more of a preference than something like the national freakout. (He is also black, which, again, goes to the point that it's complicated.) Then there are people who lose their damn mind when something like this happens.

So it's not as if "classiness!" is a pure ploy directed at young black and brown athletes to get them to behave in a way society at large would prefer them to. But there sure are a few people who felt that way: http://deadspin.com/dumb-people-say-stup...1504843629

But it definitely seems to me society gets a bit uncomfortable when young black and brown males, in particular, don't behave in exactly the way they expect. (Trayvon Martin smoked pot *once*.)