Leave it to a white racist right wing website like Breit Bart to attack Shaun King, and even sink as low as to make his own racial identity an issue. The fact is, he uses his “squeaky clean” image to earn millions and millions in endorsements Cam Newton, an “uppity” black man, despite being 10X the athlete Peyton is can’t seem to get dime one in endorsements, because in white American eyes, he wont play Uncle Tom. And, in most cases, you don’t “settle” out of court without there being smoke and a fire. Don’t give me “he was 20” You know damn well if you or I did that at 20, wed be registered sex offenders. The fact is, Peyton Manning/UT paid out $300,000 to the woman trainer he teabagged. I can see this getting interpreted in a lot of different ways.Īmazing how lily white America gets up in arms when one of their own vanilla role models is attacked and exposed as a fraud in the media. Recently, a lawsuit naming the UofT cites the incident as an example of the hostile work environment there.She sued again and settles based on Manning’s public comments in violation of the prior agreement.Archie Manning, Peyton’s father, is alleged to have also attempted to smear the trainer by saying, “she had been with a lot of Black guys”, among other things. Years later, Manning breaks confidentially agreement in a book he wrote that smears the trainer.They sign a confidentially agreement, and she gets a monetary settlement. University settles with trainer and she agrees to leave.He alleges it’s due to him not backing Manning’s account. Teammate initially supports him, then later denies this and writes letter to Peyton to fess up.Manning says it was an accident, and that he slipped while mooning a teammate.Manning, at age 19, allegedly sticks his naked butt and rectum in the face of a female trainer while she is examining him.And for the purposes of this thread, it should be pointed out that Braun is white and Miller is black.Īlthough I am sure more facts will come out, the bulletpoints are as follows: They were both accused of the exact same thing. Von Miller is heralded as Super Bowl MVP. Bring Braun’s name up in a baseball thread, and there’ll be plenty of people calling for him to return his MVP award, be kicked out of the game, etc. For instance, look at Ryan Braun and Von Miller. Football players get a near “boys will be boys” treatment. The merest hint that a baseball player used something has people crawling out of the woodwork to call for their immediate banishment from the sport entirely. There’s a vast difference in how the media and general fandom treat PED accusations in baseball than to football players. I’m not sure that (if Brady had been accused) is true. Especially when it becomes clear that Manning almost certainly had access to the HGH given it was delivered to his house, and that he hired people who essentially sent goons to the accuser’s house. If Brady had been accused of that, it would be a year long story with multiple investigative reporters trying to get to the bottom of it. Nobody just takes an accused cheater’s word as people seem to have with Manning. Jim Nance never said their use was a “non-story” on national TV as he did with Manning. Manning’s use wasn’t completely ignored (and I never said it was) but the difference in treatment is stark. Again, you don’t necessity get a pass for any of those things because you are White, but you will be far less likely to get one if you are Black, and that difference is what has largely fueled this hysteria over Cam Newton’s behavior.Ĭompare the reaction to Alex Rodriguez or Barry Bonds taking drugs to Manning. It explains why Belichick being mean to reporters is funny, but Cam doing it is unprofessional. It explains why Newton having a child out of wedlock is an issue for some people, yet Brady doing the same thing seemingly isn’t. His race explains some of the difference in magnitude between the critiques of Aaron Rogers’ dancing and “arrogance” and Newton’s dancing and “arrogance”. Not the same thing at all.įurther, if you’d actually read what I said, you’d see that I did not say Newton was getting critiqued solely because he is Black, but rather that it was an aggravating circumstance. Manziel is accused of far worse things including beating his GF on multiple occasions. Some on the fringe have criticized him for having a child out of wedlock and being a bad role model. Newton is being smeared for being mean to reporters and dancing too much. I guess it’s nice you made it abudantly clear you didn’t actual read what I wrote. After all, Johnny Manziel has largely escaped scrutiny because he’s white.
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