Oh, and I’m on the side that the original article is more bone-headed than racist. You’ve got to read between the lines to find racism. Taken at face value, it’s discrmination against any Quarterback who doesn’t take style tips from Unitis. It reveals the writer is not open minded or much of a deep thinker, but not neccessarily racist. The writer outed himself as a shallow closed minded person who discriminates against people that look different. Close to racism, but more dumb and ignorant than the hating black people kind.

This is really what should have told you the article would be bad… the kids played two games good games. He’s just a better system QB than Smith.

The psalms tattooed on Kaepernick’s arms address his competitive instinct, according to Sports Illustrated. Psalm 27:3, on one arm, reads: “Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.”

Psalm 18:39, on the other arm, says:, “You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.”

When you write your work carries your name on the byline and you will be judged. It’s part of the relentness cycle of being a writer of a routinely published outlet. If he as a writer fails to grasp that then fuck him. He should exercise his craft a little better. He’s comfortable with signing his name on it so, yeah, I feel pretty comfortable about judging him.

Just kidding, it was my wife’s birthday today. Had to make her dinner.

And I don’t necessarily think he’s racist, but that piece certainly tried its best to be

I know we used to call dutch masters that. In case you ask wtf is a dutch master. That’s the cigar that nobody smokes as a cigar. Need blunt rolling instructions?

Look, here is what I would say. How you write matters. It’s not just that. It’s the examples, the tone. Honestly, had the rest of the article, the body and meat of it gone differently, I would not have had issues with the prisoner thing standing alone.

Look, he may be a really poor writer. He’s been a writer for a long time, but maybe he doesn’t understand the impact of grouping words together. There are parallelisms throughout this piece, and it pushes the line of what you would see in articles written 30 years ago about black quarterbacks in general and how the position was different. This part:

“For dinosaurs like me, NFL quarterbacks were our little Dutch boys. The original hero stuck his finger in the dyke to save Holland. Pro QBs were the last line of defense against the raging sea of ink. When our kids said they wanted a tattoo, we could always point to the Manning brothers.”

As a parallel, Pro QBs were also the last line of defense for the white man in this sport. You may think a writer shouldnt be aware of this–I think a self-described “dinosaur” should. ‘t was the white position for the longest. It was “different”. We could always point to the old time quarterbacks who looked like the Mannings. “Little Dutch Boys”? If words mean things, why did he choose that example? What image does it intone when combined with the rest of that paragraph? Do you picture Ruud Gullit?

” I’m cool with LeBron James looking like an Etch A Sketch.”

So he’s cool with a basketball star (an African-American one) wearing tats and filling a more traditional role. He’s not cool with a quarterback breaking his image of a buttoned down quarterback though.

Those are issues I have with it. It invokes some images and some parallels that really push a line, and it goes way beyond the San Quentin lede.