I can't believe no one's talking about this on the general chat forums yet....this is GC people!
Anyway, does this guy think that EVERY black QB is a scrambler, even a GOOD scrambler? Has he SEEN Charlie Batch or Aaron Brooks?
Does he remember that the first and only black QB to win the Super Bowl, Doug Williams, could not run to save his life? Does he remember pocket passers like Warren Moon and Randall Cunningham?
They brought up a very good point on ESPN....Donovan has been nothing but a class act, (to quote Charles Barkeley: "He doesn;t act a fool") why is that all of a sudden being a token or a sellout?
The more shit McNabb gets and the more drama he gets pulled into, the more I respect him for the way he handles it.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns
NAACP blasts local leader for comments about McNabb
December 15, 2005
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- 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."
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Mondesire, who also publishes the Philadelphia Sunday Sun, criticized the quarterback's proclivity for passing in a Dec. 4 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.
McNabb could not be reached for comment Thursday, but said last weekend that "I always thought the NAACP supported African Americans and didn't talk bad about them."
"If you talk about my play, that's one thing," McNabb said. "When you talk about my race, now we've got problems."
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