Cam Newton Pulling Race Card

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(02-03-2016, 02:17 PM)Bmoreblitz Wrote: No one has explained why this man is getting far more scrutiny than other QBs have, en route to Super Bowl appearances, even though they've all done similar things, if not worse. I detailed about a half dozen Super Bowl QBs myself. Didn't hear nearly the same outcry with any of them. Why?


Media has played more of a role with the "race" thing just as much as the scrutiny.
I think the "level of vitriol" mostly comes from the media. And by media I don't just mean ESPN but the whole glut of blogs and other nonsense dying for clicks. If you actually talk to real human beings, in the real world, hardly anyone cares. But 24/7 internet/media needs something to spike the hits.


But the media knows how to suck people in, they know how to draw the racists out of the shadows, then when they inevitably show up it gets paraded around front and center and made to look like it's this overwhelming tidal wave of opinion..... just the same way every other minor little detail gets overblown every day, whether it's about some Kardashian "dissing" some dumbass on twitter, or it's Donald Trump's hair, or the width of the pulp fibers on Obama's birth certificate. Everything is a Big Deal if we let them convince us that it is.

Probably because he displays more ego than the rest?

He's placed himself out there and has said (repeatedly and rightfully) that he's not going to change.  He owns that he is a free spirit.  He just doesn't like to be criticized for it.

I agree the media plays the race card more than the players...but Cam just enabled them with his response.

Lastly, *is* he getting more scrutiny?  Or is it the short memory we have when it comes to the newest thing to get upset about?

Wasn't Wilson accused of not being "black enough" during the season before he won a Super Bowl?

In this case it is Super Bowl week...everything gets amplified.  I'm sure Manning is getting peppered for being "old" too.  Is that ageinsm unlike ever seen during a run up to a Super Bowl?