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A Texas school district superintendent is claiming he regrets saying of the Houston Texans Deshaun Watson, You cant count on a black quarterback. The comment was posted to a Houston Chronicle Facebook page, and the official said he thought he was responding instead to a private message from a friend.
I wish it had never been posted, Lynn Redden, the superintendent of the Onalaska (Tex.) Independent School District, told the Chronicle on Monday. The official, whose district is located about 85 miles north of Houston, was frustrated by a game-ending sequence in the Texans 20-17 loss Sunday to the Tennessee Titans in which Watson mismanaged his teams final play.
That may have been the most inept quarterback decision Ive seen in the NFL, Redden wrote in his Facebook comment. When you need precision decision making you cant count on a black quarterback.
According to the Chronicle, Redden quickly deleted his comment, but a Houston-area resident captured an image of it and alerted the newspaper. Its important to make sure horrible words are met with consequences, especially for those in powerful positions with influence, the resident, Matt Ericksen, said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/09/18/texas-superintendent-regrets-disparaging-deshaun-watson-on-basis-of-being-a-black-qb/?utm_term=.1f7ab8172aa2
These people should not be associated with schools.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Wonder how many others in Texas (and elsewhere) think the same way.
RandiFan1290
(6,243 posts)marble falls
(57,208 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Cam Newton to name just 2 with more accurate and more precise decision making skills than this a-hole.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)And more every day.
On edit: And how about those White Wonders like Teebo, Maranovich and Blackledge. The only reason anyone knows Teebo's name is because he was colossally bad. Lol
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)became a starter for Tampa Bay, then later were nuclear in a Super Bowl win. So in around 30 years, there has been Moon, McNair (a few yards from a Super Bowl win), Donovan, Randall Cunningham, and others. In the NFL today, three Blacks are starting at QB (Mahomes and Wilson are mixed race but identify as Black), with a fourth serving a suspension, the percentage is about what the percentage of Blacks in the general population.
The superintendent should be fired, how can anyone be sure that a Black, Yellow or Brown kid gets a fair shot with someone like that running the school system?
secondwind
(16,903 posts)After the Racism comes the Regret.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)I wish it had never been posted" ... as if some mysterious agent is responsible for posting it
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)Fucking assholes
fishwax
(29,149 posts)I'll be honest, I just skimmed the first part of the article and saw that stupid passive voice in his own defense. I didn't even make it to the ISD statement until you posted that and I had to go back to see if it was real.
Fucking assholes indeed.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Limited success like winning NFL championships and breaking records. At least two black quarterbacks have won Super Bowls. At least one black quarterback is in the NFL Hall of Fame. Those numbers may seem small, but when you take into account the limited number of opportunities black quarterbacks have had, especially compared to white quarterbacks, those are pretty good numbers.
Twenty to thirty years ago it was still mainly unheard of to have a black starting quarterback. Even now when many people, especially white people, think about quarterbacks they mainly think of it as a job for a white man; not a black man. How often do we hear someone suggest to a white college quarterback that they should become a running back? The only person I can think of so far is Tim Tebow. However, just about every black quarterback that has come into the NFL has been encouraged to switch from being a quarterback to something like a running back or a tight end.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Warren Moon was a Rose Bowl MVP and still couldn't get drafted. He had to go play in Canada, and after winning five straight league titles and an MVP award the NFL finally gave him a shot.
It wasn't just the NFL that didn't want him as a quarterback, either, as their was pressure to shift positions in college as well.
It's always funny the way people trot out the history of black quarterbacks, as though every one who isn't a hall of famer is somehow evidence of, to use this guy's phrase, "limited success." It's like they forget the legions of white QBs who don't pan out.
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)Historically, black athletes were given very limited opportunities to play quarterback in the NFL until the late 1980s, when the position began to become more integrated. Nevertheless, in a league in which approximately 70 percent of the players are black, only about 20 percent of quarterbacks currently listed on depth charts are nonwhite.
I see it as part of the same historical package as bias the view that minorities cant be in thinking positions even after weve had Barack Obama as president, said Cyrus Mehri, a Washington-based lawyer and counsel to the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which advocates for diversity in NFL coaching and executive ranks, in comments last year to The Washington Post.
One of the most decorated players in recent college football history, Watson twice led Clemson to the College Football Playoff championship game, winning once, and was twice a finalist for the Heisman Trophy before the Texans made him the 12th overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft. As a rookie, he enjoyed a remarkably effective stretch of play before injuring his knee midway through the season, and through two Houston losses this season, he has completed 59.1 percent of his passes for 486 yards and three touchdowns with two interceptions and an 84.5 rating, adding 71 yards on the ground.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts). . .HALL OF FAME QUARTERBACK played professional football.
What a dolt.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)People like him that all the time in private. In his public job, he likely always find something wrong with Black applicants that he would never consider for White ones. We need to get rid of such people, they are a drag on society when they chose to automatically elevate one race above others, merit or no merit. Social media is outing them left and right.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Bald, in your face, racism from a Texas school superintendent!
This guy is in charge of teaching thousands of kids huh? Wonder why racism is alive and well in America?