Bernard Hopkins has long been a critic of Donovan McNabb. His most recent comments suggest that McNabb isn't "black enough" and that he isn't being true to his black roots.
I believe it's comments like this that prove this country still has a long way to go with respect to race relations. If we want to truly have an equal and just society, we need to stop identifying people as "too black" or "too white". Instead of focusing on how "black" McNabb is or isn't, Hopkins should simply focus on the positive or negative traits he sees in McNabb why or why not he has a problem with them. There is no reason to bring race into the equation. All that does is perpetuate stereotypes that put a strain on race relations. We can't move forward as a society until EVERYONE realizes that there is no "black way" or "white way".
In addition to his racist comments, Hopkins also used an analogy to compare football to slavery. This is such a tired and overstated analogy. Last time I checked, slaves didn't get paid millions of dollars for their craft. And football players don't get tortured and murdered on a whim.
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