Deadspin: Richard Sherman And The Plight Of The Conquering Negro

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AMAZING read...

I thought about posting this in S&T, but I think this article is better served for General because this topic is much larger than sports due to how people are perceiving Sherman and WHO he is based off of a 10 second interview. People going in on his character, calling him a thug/racist names, saying he should get Trayvon treatment, etc. The **** said after the game was disgusting. Almost on the level of what was being said about Joel Ward after he scored a game 7 goal to eliminate the Bruins from the SC playoffs a few years ago. It's almost like people can't separate who the man is on the field in comparison to the man off of it.

Richard Sherman And The Plight Of The Conquering Negro

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Last night in the NFC championship, the San Francisco 49ers trailed the Seattle Seahawks by six, 23-17, with 30 seconds left in the game. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick had led the 49ers all the way down to the Seahawks' 18-yard line. He took the snap out of the gun, set his feet, and released a flossy little fade to the corner of the end zone, where receiver Michael Crabtree had his hands out. And then Richard Sherman happened.

Sherman, a 6-foot-3 physical marvel and the current best cornerback in the NFL, leaped with Crabtree, and falling backward toward the rear of the end zone, he tipped the pass with his left hand back inbounds to a teammate and ended the 49ers season.
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I have no issues with people who take umbrage at Sherman or anyone else for how they carry themselves on the field. Criticizing for things related to football are fine. Where I draw the line is when people overstep their bounds and think that it's OK to go HAM with their racial biases because they're upset. Anyways, it's a good read.

Mods, if you think it needs to be moved, feel free to do so.

*FYI, there is one NSFW term in the article.
 
How anyone can perceive him to be a thug based off his interview is mind blowing. Arrogant? Yeah. But a thug?

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Wow iguadola ia a scumbag i dont like him anymore

Also liked how writer tied in other famous black ppl like kanye and how black ppl cant be too confident in the media
 
Azul Rolex said:
White Amerikkka showed their true colors again Sunday night after this interview :smh:
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It was coming from everywhere...not just white america:

The problem is that it's not just white folks who feel this way. Last night, Golden State Warriors wingman Andre Iguodala received nearly 3,000 retweets from this:

Andre Iguodala [emoji]10004[/emoji] @andre
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We just got set back 500 years...
9:58 PM - 19 Jan 2014
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The problem is that too many people think that Iguodala has a point. Too many of us think that one ecstatic, triumphant black man showing honest, human emotion just seconds after making a play that very well could be written into the first appositive of his obituary, is not only offensive, but is also representative of the tens of millions of blacks in this country.
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JJs07 said:
Azul Rolex said:
White Amerikkka showed their true colors again Sunday night after this interview :smh:
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It was coming from everywhere...not just white america:

The problem is that it's not just white folks who feel this way. Last night, Golden State Warriors wingman Andre Iguodala received nearly 3,000 retweets from this:

Andre Iguodala [emoji]10004[/emoji] @andre
Follow

We just got set back 500 years...
9:58 PM - 19 Jan 2014
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The problem is that too many people think that Iguodala has a point. Too many of us think that one ecstatic, triumphant black man showing honest, human emotion just seconds after making a play that very well could be written into the first appositive of his obituary, is not only offensive, but is also representative of the tens of millions of blacks in this country.
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Stuff like that comes from fear of perception. For years it's been impressed upon us that we can't be too confident/arrogant in public.
 
mr jordan04 said:
Sherman :pimp:
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This,the biggest play of his life against hated rivals on the biggest stage so it's 100% understandable where the emotion came from. I was honestly mind blown at all the outrage. Weren't some of these same people calling him a "thug" and worse the same ones defending that scumbag Richie Incognito by saying what he did was part of "locker room culture"? :smh:
 
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Mark Antony said:
JJs07 said:
Azul Rolex said:
White Amerikkka showed their true colors again Sunday night after this interview :smh:
Click to expand...

It was coming from everywhere...not just white america:

The problem is that it's not just white folks who feel this way. Last night, Golden State Warriors wingman Andre Iguodala received nearly 3,000 retweets from this:

Andre Iguodala [emoji]10004[/emoji] @andre
Follow

We just got set back 500 years...
9:58 PM - 19 Jan 2014
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The problem is that too many people think that Iguodala has a point. Too many of us think that one ecstatic, triumphant black man showing honest, human emotion just seconds after making a play that very well could be written into the first appositive of his obituary, is not only offensive, but is also representative of the tens of millions of blacks in this country.
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Stuff like that comes from fear of perception. For years it's been impressed upon us that we can't be too confident/arrogant in public.[/quote]
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"Know your place, it'll get you far" :smh:
 
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He been doing this all year, why no complaint before?

Do we lose the nature of competition?

Sherman is a troll, people should not take him that serious.
 
JJs07 said:
It was coming from everywhere...not just white america:
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I find it a bit irritating when people take this view when someone of color does something that upsets people. It makes no sense for any one person to represent a culture or "race".
 
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Azul Rolex said:
White Amerikkka showed their true colors again Sunday night after this interview
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Statements like this don't help.

You're stereotyping an entire group just like "they" are.

I'm on neither side of this argument as far as race goes.  The way Sherman acts on the field isn't my cup of tea, but I respect him as a player and for what he does off the field and where hes come from.

Just seems like the chip hes carrying on his shoulder gets the best of his on field persona sometimes.  He also carries it into the press room.

Biggest issue is his team's going to the SB but you almost wouldn't even know it during that interview until Werder asked him about it in his 2nd interview on the field.  It was the ultimate ME moment.  "I'M THE BEST CORNER".... "DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT ME"... "IF MY TEAMMATES KNEW THEY'D TRY ME TO WIN THE GAME WE WOULD HAVE BEEN WEARING OUR HATS EARLY".
 
This is NT, so it's bound to become a race issue.

BUT, for me, it isn't a race issue. It was about gamesmanship. it was about emotion. It was about competition. It was about pride. It was about joy. it was about winning.

Sherman, IMO, made the best play he will make in his career. This, for some, will be on par with some of the greatest plays in football. Unfortunately for him, he was interviewed immediately afterwards and all of it got the best of him. I can't stand him... but the play he made was ... damn good. He was full of adrenaline, full of emotion, and just made himself sound completely stupid. I think the "that sealed the deal" was the stupid LOB crap he said at the end. For many, that turned him into a thug rather than someone that just did what 99.99% of people will never even have a chance to do.
 
I mean, we're talking about his comments after the game rather than the play that sealed the 49ers fate. He IS the best CB in the game and there probably isn't another guy in the league who could have made that tip in the endzone. It's a ******g shame :smh:

Also, let's not pretend that FOX didn't know what they were doing. They were going to put a mic in the face of Sherman win or lose. You know EXACTLY what you're getting with him. If they wanted a cookie-cutter type of response, go seek out Russell Wilson.

Sherman is Stanford educated, has a clean record off the field, and very well-spoken. But yet a 10 second clip tells you everything you need to know about him? Get outta here...
 
Man, if anything that 10 second interview made me more of a fan of Sherman. I love to see that competitive fire and passion in athletes; it's way better than the boring, repetitive pre-canned crap that they are trained to feed us. I mean those two teams (especially Sherm v. harbaugh & crabtree) legitimately hate each other, the dude just made the game saving play, and who knows all the trash that was being talked between the two just before that. So was it really that unexpected that he is going to be emotional in the interview right after the play?

The logical part of me can't believe that such a minor thing has had such a huge effect. Like others have said, people get more worked up winning a game on Madden.
 
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and before someone tries to use the "he went to stanford" argument to validate anything good/bad, if you've played college sports you MUST understand, especially at a big school like Stanford, USC, etc... student athletes get that specialt treatment.
 
DC1323 said:
and before someone tries to use the "he went to stanford" argument to validate anything good/bad, if you've played college sports you MUST understand, especially at a big school like Stanford, USC, etc... student athletes get that specialt treatment.
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You don't get a scholarship at Stanford unless you meet their academic standards prior to them even recruiting you.

Sherm carried a 4.0 in HS and was his schools Salutatorian. 
 
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