Richard Sherman Thuggishly Applies the Race Card

If you want to find a real bigot, look for someone who excuses the appalling behavior of Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks on the unspoken grounds that you can’t expect blacks to show any dignity or sportsmanship. Such narrow-minded racists include Sherman himself:

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said he was bothered and disappointed that he was called a “thug” after his crazed post-game rant on Sunday because he said it seems like “thug” is the “accepted way of calling somebody the N-word nowadays.”

The thuggish rant that appalled the nation after Seattle’s playoff win over San Francisco last weekend may have been contrived. Sherman rose out of the sewers of Compton to get high grades at Stanford. The enraged gorilla demeanor on display probably doesn’t reflect the real Richard Sherman.

Uh oh, now I’ve done it. No one is allowed to compare blacks to enraged gorillas, even when they go out of their way to act like them. If it’s up to Sherman, we won’t be able to call them thugs either. Any extreme of poor behavior must be tolerated, lest we be accused of political incorrectness.

Hopefully no one is missing the irony that this bizarre attitude encourages blacks to behave like thugs, or the even greater irony that the politically correct are the true bigots by implying that barbarous behavior is so inherent to blackness that to criticize it in a black is racist.

Say a Korean went off like Sherman and people observed that he was behaving like a thug. Would that be a thought crime? No, because PC thought police don’t secretly associate Koreans with thugs.

Sherman added, “You fight it for so long, and to have it come back up and people start to use it again, it’s really, it’s frustrating.”

Here’s an idea: if you don’t like being called a thug, stop acting like one. When you do act like one, say you are sorry instead of thuggishly trying to intimidate people with the race card into accepting the unacceptable.