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12/13/12, "Rob Parker on RGIII’s blackness," Washington Post, Dan Steinberg
"This led to a Thursday discussion on First Take, ESPN’s abysmal debate
program. Panelist Rob Parker was asked, ‘What does this say about
RGIII?”
“This is an interesting topic,” Parker said. “For me, personally,
just me, this throws up a red flag, what I keep hearing. And I don’t
know who’s asking the questions, but we’ve heard a couple of times now
of a black guy kind of distancing himself away from black people.
“I understand the whole story of I just want to be the best,” Parker continued. “Nobody’s out on the field saying to themselves, I want to be the best black quarterback.
You’re just playing football, right? You want to be the best, you want
to throw the most touchdowns and have the most yards and win the most
games. Nobody is [thinking] that.
“But time and time we keep hearing this, so it just makes me wonder
deeper about him,” Parker went on. “And I’ve talked to some people down
in Washington D.C., friends of mine, who are around and at some of the
press conferences, people I’ve known for a long time. But my question,
which is just a straight honest question. Is he a brother, or is he a
cornball brother?”...
Why is that your question, Parker was asked.
“Well, because I want to find out about him,” Parker said. “I don’t
know, because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white
fiancée. There was all this talk about he’s a Republican, which, there’s
no information [about that] at all. I’m just trying to dig deeper as to
why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger
Woods was like I’ve got black skin but don’t call me black. So people
got to wondering about Tiger Woods early on.”...
Then Stephen A. Smith was asked for his take. He exhaled deeply.
“Well first of all let me say this: I’m uncomfortable with where we
just went,” Smith said. “RGIII, the ethnicity, the color of his fiancée
is none of our business. It’s irrelevant. He can live his life any way
he chooses. The braids that he has in his hair, that’s his business,
that’s his life. I don’t judge someone’s blackness based on those kind
of things. I just don’t do that. I’m not that kind of guy."...via Mark Levin show
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