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Cheer them if their on the team they like. Call them thugs if they play for the opposing team.
That backwards thinking.
That backwards thinking.
Deadspin: Richard Sherman And The Plight Of The Conquering Negro
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This happens in almost every situation. And throughout history.
I go to this school so I hate the people from that school.
I belong to this religion so I hate people from that religion.
I work for this company so I think the people at that company are inferior.
I'm from this country so I hate the people from that country.
etc.
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BTW if anyone of you guys have NFL Network tonight at 11pm they're going to be broadcasting Sherman and Crabtree mic'd up so we can hear exactly what was said. Hopefully there's not a lot of editing.
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[h1]What Richard Sherman Taught Us About America[/h1]
[h2]Isaac Saul[/h2]
Huffington Post's Innovation Team
"I'm the best corner[back] in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you going to get."
--Richard Sherman
That's the quote that got America talking.
The man behind it was Seattle Seahawks all-pro defensive back Richard Sherman, a guy whose mouth is about the only thing louder than his game.
In the moments after Sherman's post-game interview, Twitter exploded. People called him everything from a "thug" to a "disgrace," and even Justin Verlander - a professional pitcher for the
Detroit Tigers - suggested that Sherman would get "high and tight" fastballs if he were in the MLB. On top of that, tweets and memes like the one below spread like wildfire.
But from my perspective, the heat Sherman is getting is not just misguided but ludicrous. This is a guy who represents one of the best kinds of sports stories there is in the world: the rise from the bottom, the profound destruction of obstacles, the honest success story built by a foundation of hard work and loving parents. If anyone with a brain took the time to learn about Richard Sherman, and then put him in the context of the rest of the National Football League, he'd be a pretty hard guy to bash.
Firstly, we're talking about a 25-year-old who came out of the streets of Compton, California. Sherman graduated from one of the worst school districts in the United States, one that boasts a high-school graduation rate of 57 percent. In a country where 68 percent of all federal and state inmates are lacking a high school diploma, you could say Sherman avoided a horrifying fate. But to say he "got lucky" or "escaped" would be foolhardy. He didn't "just graduate," either. He finished with a 4.2 GPA, second in his class, and went on to Stanford University, one of the most prestigious places to get an education in the entire world. He busted out in a rocket ship. He went from a world of gang violence and drugs to everything that Palo Alto and Stanford University represent.
And where did Mr. Sherman get the work ethic to put up those grades and make it to a school that offers that kind of education? Probably from his father, Kevin, who has worked in the sanitation department for Los Angeles for more than thirty years. But you won't see that on Sherman's stat sheet, and you definitely won't hear about it when ESPN analysts comment on his post-game interview today. Most interesting, though, is that Sherman's story isn't a big secret. NFL Films has even done a short documentary on "the trash-talking cornerback."
So now, America, let's talk about Richard Sherman in the NFL. Let's talk about the Stanford graduate from Compton who has never been arrested, never cursed in a post-game interview, never been accused of being a dirty player, started his own charitable non-profit, and won an appeal in the only thing close to a smudge on his record.
This past off-season, 31 NFL players were arrested for everything from gun charges and driving under the Influence to murder.
Last year, Kansas City Chiefs player Javon Belcher killed Kasandra Perkins, his girlfriend and the mother of his own child, before taking his own life.
Week in and week out, we sit down in front of our televisions and cheer for these freak athletes to destroy each other's bodies in one of the most brutal games known to man. Most of us probably do it with a beer in our hand, screaming and cursing at our TVs in a desperate hope to change the outcome of the game. We ignore how the NFL's owners use our tax money so freely, and we don't seem to care much about the brain damage retired players suffer from every year.
Yet, when one kid who has overcome everything, one kid who was doubted by the very player he overcame on Sunday, decides to emphatically claim he is the best (by the way: he is), this is what upsets us? Man, could you imagine if this generation had to deal with Muhammad Ali?
Last night, when Richard Sherman went on his rant to Erin Andrews, most of America thought they were learning about the arrogance of another NFL player. But in reality, what Richard Sherman did was teach us about ourselves. He taught us that we're still a country that isn't ready for lower-class Americans from neighborhoods like Compton to succeed. We're still a country that can't decipher a person's character. But most of all, he taught us that no matter what you overcome in your life, we're still a country that can't accept someone if they're a little louder, a little prouder, or a little different from the people we surround ourselves with.
In the words of the great Richard Sherman, there is only one question: You mad, bro?
[h2]Isaac Saul[/h2]
Huffington Post's Innovation Team
"I'm the best corner[back] in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you going to get."
--Richard Sherman
That's the quote that got America talking.
The man behind it was Seattle Seahawks all-pro defensive back Richard Sherman, a guy whose mouth is about the only thing louder than his game.
In the moments after Sherman's post-game interview, Twitter exploded. People called him everything from a "thug" to a "disgrace," and even Justin Verlander - a professional pitcher for the
Detroit Tigers - suggested that Sherman would get "high and tight" fastballs if he were in the MLB. On top of that, tweets and memes like the one below spread like wildfire.
But from my perspective, the heat Sherman is getting is not just misguided but ludicrous. This is a guy who represents one of the best kinds of sports stories there is in the world: the rise from the bottom, the profound destruction of obstacles, the honest success story built by a foundation of hard work and loving parents. If anyone with a brain took the time to learn about Richard Sherman, and then put him in the context of the rest of the National Football League, he'd be a pretty hard guy to bash.
Firstly, we're talking about a 25-year-old who came out of the streets of Compton, California. Sherman graduated from one of the worst school districts in the United States, one that boasts a high-school graduation rate of 57 percent. In a country where 68 percent of all federal and state inmates are lacking a high school diploma, you could say Sherman avoided a horrifying fate. But to say he "got lucky" or "escaped" would be foolhardy. He didn't "just graduate," either. He finished with a 4.2 GPA, second in his class, and went on to Stanford University, one of the most prestigious places to get an education in the entire world. He busted out in a rocket ship. He went from a world of gang violence and drugs to everything that Palo Alto and Stanford University represent.
And where did Mr. Sherman get the work ethic to put up those grades and make it to a school that offers that kind of education? Probably from his father, Kevin, who has worked in the sanitation department for Los Angeles for more than thirty years. But you won't see that on Sherman's stat sheet, and you definitely won't hear about it when ESPN analysts comment on his post-game interview today. Most interesting, though, is that Sherman's story isn't a big secret. NFL Films has even done a short documentary on "the trash-talking cornerback."
So now, America, let's talk about Richard Sherman in the NFL. Let's talk about the Stanford graduate from Compton who has never been arrested, never cursed in a post-game interview, never been accused of being a dirty player, started his own charitable non-profit, and won an appeal in the only thing close to a smudge on his record.
This past off-season, 31 NFL players were arrested for everything from gun charges and driving under the Influence to murder.
Last year, Kansas City Chiefs player Javon Belcher killed Kasandra Perkins, his girlfriend and the mother of his own child, before taking his own life.
Week in and week out, we sit down in front of our televisions and cheer for these freak athletes to destroy each other's bodies in one of the most brutal games known to man. Most of us probably do it with a beer in our hand, screaming and cursing at our TVs in a desperate hope to change the outcome of the game. We ignore how the NFL's owners use our tax money so freely, and we don't seem to care much about the brain damage retired players suffer from every year.
Yet, when one kid who has overcome everything, one kid who was doubted by the very player he overcame on Sunday, decides to emphatically claim he is the best (by the way: he is), this is what upsets us? Man, could you imagine if this generation had to deal with Muhammad Ali?
Last night, when Richard Sherman went on his rant to Erin Andrews, most of America thought they were learning about the arrogance of another NFL player. But in reality, what Richard Sherman did was teach us about ourselves. He taught us that we're still a country that isn't ready for lower-class Americans from neighborhoods like Compton to succeed. We're still a country that can't decipher a person's character. But most of all, he taught us that no matter what you overcome in your life, we're still a country that can't accept someone if they're a little louder, a little prouder, or a little different from the people we surround ourselves with.
In the words of the great Richard Sherman, there is only one question: You mad, bro?
I thought the context of that first paragraph made it clear I was referring to Sherm, but after going back n rereading, I can see how it could be misinterpreted. Therefore, to clear things up, no I was not referring to the negative/racial Tweets about Sherman. My bad for any confusion.
Not sure what that has to do with Sherm, DeSean went to Cal Berkeley. However, I would hope that was his college GPA, seeing how UC Berkeley is one of the top Universities in California n I know people with 3.8+ that were rejected. Still, it was a football scholarship, so sometimes the minimum requirements are all that are needed. But hey, he did what he had to do to get accepted, so more power to him.
Cool, thought it was Friday. Good lookin' on that.
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"But most of all, he taught us that no matter what you overcome in your life, we're still a country that can't accept someone if they're a little louder, a little prouder, or a little different from the people we surround ourselves with."
Clap for em'. Great piece.
Clap for em'. Great piece.
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funny, even while homie is trying to have his back, he slips up and says some wild stuff like this, maybe im reading too much into it, but there is no "lower-class" of Homo sapien, im hopin he meant lower socio-economic class[h1]What Richard Sherman Taught Us About America[/h1]
[h2]Isaac Saul[/h2]
Huffington Post's Innovation Team
He taught us that we're still a country that isn't ready for lower-class Americans from neighborhoods like Compton to succeed.
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http://grantland.com/the-triangle/h...richard-sherman-be-playing-in-the-super-bowl/ This is a joke columnn but its hilarious to me that people out there actually think like this about the situation
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about as strong of an endorsement that u can get....
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I understand, and thank you for your response.
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bro you're a 9ers fan so of course you like them commercials.
look at the way they depict Seattle fans.
That **** is more offensive than anything Sherman said.
But I'm not I'm a Giants fan and we ARE animals.
Not even that. I like the Sherman ones and KG ones too.
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RT @Softykjr: Sherman on word thug: "It seems like its the accepted way of calling somebody the N word"
Bingo.
Bingo.
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He's right...
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I'm a Richard Sherman fan for life after all this
Anybody who has issue with what he did after the game is either soft or has a different issue ill leave it at that
Anybody who has issue with what he did after the game is either soft or has a different issue ill leave it at that
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Can't lie, been waiting for an athlete like Sherman to come along and raise these kinda questions.
There's always been a lot of backhand/low key racism surrounding sports media
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I wonder how many people in here are fine with participation ribbons
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Crazy thing is there wasn't anything even remotely "thuggish" about what he said. Arrogant maybe, but definitely not thuggish. Dude is getting so much unwarranted backlash from pretty much nothing.
KG told Melo LaLa tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios. Kenyon Martin called Mark Cuban a f*gg*t on TV. Where was the media and outrage on those? Trash talk happens in literally every game in every mainstream sport. How is Sherman the whipping boy when the only remotely offensive thing he said was "Crabtree is a sorry receiver." It's confusing.
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what he said about being called a thug was too real
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exactly
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I'm rooting hard for Seattle now.
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