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...nation's first black President to fail - which won't endear him to a league dominated by black athletes who probably don't share that sentiment about President Obama. Nor does the country that elected him. And as a commentator for ESPN in 2003, Limbaugh made a racist remark that quickly got him benched: he disparaged Donovan McNabb, arguing that the Philadelphia Eagles QB got higher marks than deserved because of his color. Philadelphia fans were outraged - mostly at being accused of grading anyone on a curve. In Philly, nobody but nobody gets a pass, except the wideouts. (Read...
...should Rush Limbaugh be deemed unfit to be an NFL owner because he's said things that some people deem racist? Sadly, the league's historical precedent does not exclude such behavior. As Sports Illustrated just pointed out, the former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was an open racist who kept the Redskins white, not to mention inept - now there's an accomplishment - until 1962, long after the owners grudgingly reintegrated the league in 1946. (See TIME's top 10 things to watch this NFL season...
Blunt, Representative Roy • Values Voter Summit is regaled by with story comparing President Obama and his fellow Democrats to jungle monkeys, but hey, it's not like anything racist was meant...
...appropriately did not address the more racist criticisms that arose over one of Dartmouth's most widely circulated e-mail updates soon after he was named president in early March, including...
...they need to resort to a different approach. It’s possible to make fun of President Obama—Saturday Night Live does it quite effectively—but the Republican party’s stunts have only succeeded in making it seem childish, boorish, and even racist. A couple of months ago, for example, a legislative aide to Sen. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) emailed out a picture of previous, white presidents followed by a black portrait with only two oversized eyes portraying Obama—supposedly meant to remind of us of a dark past of Sambo...