<p>Well thank you for bringing up the facts in your edit, cause they are sorely being overlooked in all this, as evident in the comments over McMillan’s article. </p>
<p>And if you don’t watch sports or Sportscenter, or consistently read sports headlines, than you wouldn’t know how sports personalities continually tear these athletes down. I’v been around a little longer than you Phat, trust me, my views are from experience. I wasn’t always this quick to speak out. It has nothing to do with what has transpired with these people over the last few years. It’s on the web, in newspapers, TV and radio…the black athlete gets lynched with the pen every night. That’s not to mention the “nobody” blacks who have to deal with racial profiling, biased legal system, the “marble ceiling” in corporate America and unfair practices in the workforce and housing market. </p>
<p>If you read print media, listen to radio, read the internet, watch film and TV and don’t come up with the conclusion that they can’t stand black people, then you are just not going to ever empathize with our plight. One of the best points made in McMillan’s article was the lack of diversity among the protesters. Why do white’s always think contrary to blacks in these situations when we are the one’s who got wronged?</p>