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After 233 years haven’t we as a society reached a point where can end discrimination?  Why must people be segregated based on race, religion, social status, or politics?  The new head of the NFL Players Association seeks to bar a private citizen from investing his money in an NFL team for what reason?  Simply because this citizen dared to exercise his first amendment right of free speech and pointed out the hypocrisy of the sports media in America and their hype of a quarterback in Philadelphia simply because of his race.
So Rush Limbaugh was asked to participate in a perspective ownership group looking to buy the St. Louis Rams.  He’s a private citizen; he has made his money legally.  Rush has no ties to gambling or other entities that are barred by the NFL.  St. Louis gets a part owner with ties to the area, someone that has done more for the sport than most of the people in it.  That’s not enough apparently, today to be an owner you have to be liberal.  You have to promote the socialist policies of a President and a Congress that seeks the destruction of everything the country was founded upon.
Rush had made a comment on ESPN back in 2003 referencing the quarterback in Philadelphia that the medias interest in this quarterback was because they wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.  The statement wasn’t racist, in fact it Rush was pointing out the racism by the sports media.  They are overtly racist, were then, are now.  That hasn’t changed.  In the years since we were treated to glowing stories about Tony Dungy being the first black coach to win Super Bowl.  We weren’t treated to the stories of how wonderful a coach Tony Dungy was and the masterful a job he did at not only building the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization that went on to win a Super Bowl the year after he was shown the door, but the job he did in rebuilding the Indianapolis Colts into a Super Bowl Championship team a couple of years later.  The focus was only about his race and not his skill and that is a shame.
Who did Tony Dungy owe his success to, his own hard work, his players, his staff, the ownership group that supported him, the fans.  Not just those who happen to be black.
Rush has been successful in an entirely different field.  Does he owe his success only to himself, only to the white members of his hard working staff, only to his white listeners?  No Rush owes his success to his hard work, his hard working staff of all races and genders, and his listeners, millions of listeners who are White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc.
I have heard Tony Dungy speak about success, and race is never part of that but the media doesn’t hear that they only look at his race.  I have heard Rush Limbaugh speak about success, race isn’t part of that either and again the media doesn’t hear.  The media has been in the business of speaking so long that they have grown tone deaf to what the people actually think and believe.
Much like our government.

After 233 years haven’t we as a society reached a point where can end discrimination?  Why must people be segregated based on race, religion, social status, or politics?  The new head of the NFL Players Association seeks to bar a private citizen from investing his money in an NFL team for what reason?  Simply because this citizen dared to exercise his first amendment right of free speech and pointed out the hypocrisy of the sports media in America and their hype of a quarterback in Philadelphia simply because of his race.

So Rush Limbaugh was asked to participate in a perspective ownership group looking to buy the St. Louis Rams.  He’s a private citizen; he has made his money legally.  Rush has no ties to gambling or other entities that are barred by the NFL unlike other owners whose family businesses include gambling.  St. Louis gets a part owner with ties to the area, someone that has done more for the sport than most of the people in it.  That’s not enough apparently, today to be an owner you have to be liberal.  You have to promote the socialist policies of a President and a Congress that seeks the destruction of everything the country was founded upon.

Rush had made a comment on ESPN back in 2003 referencing the quarterback in Philadelphia that the medias interest in this quarterback was because they wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.  The statement wasn’t racist, in fact it Rush was pointing out the racism by the sports media.  They are overtly racist, were then, are now.  That hasn’t changed.  In the years since we were treated to glowing stories about Tony Dungy being the first black coach to win Super Bowl.  We weren’t treated to the stories of how wonderful a coach Tony Dungy was and the masterful a job he did at not only building the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization that went on to win a Super Bowl the year after he was shown the door, but the job he did in rebuilding the Indianapolis Colts into a Super Bowl Championship team a couple of years later.  The focus was only about his race and not his skill and that is a shame.

Who did Tony Dungy owe his success to, his own hard work, his players, his staff, the ownership group that supported him, the fans.  Not just those who happen to be black.

Rush has been successful in an entirely different field.  Does he owe his success only to himself, only to the white members of his hard working staff, only to his white listeners?  No Rush owes his success to his hard work, his hard working staff of all races and genders, and his listeners, millions of listeners who are White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc.

I have heard Tony Dungy speak about success, and race is never part of that but the media doesn’t hear that they only look at his race.  I have heard Rush Limbaugh speak about success, race isn’t part of that either and again the media doesn’t hear.  The media has been in the business of speaking so long that they have grown tone deaf to what the people actually think and believe.

Much like our government.

Posted by Brandon on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4:14 pm 
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