Josh Brown saga is latest evidence that white privilege is alive and well in the NFL

EBENEZER SAMUEL OCT 21, 2016 8:37 PM
The explanations and rationalizations have come forth from the mouths of Giants brass for days now, all the reasons that they never saw the need to part ways with their wife-beating veteran kicker Josh Brown.

There was the way Brown “attempted to be honest with us,” says owner John Mara, and there was the way he was “working toward improving himself,” according to head coach Ben McAdoo, and both phrases sound pathetically flimsy, given what we all now know about Josh Brown.

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And it’s this unforgivable dissonance that nearly forgave Josh Brown, that earned him a new deal in April and let him go about his NFL business for five games, despite the fact that even Mara says the kicker had admitted he’d abused his wife.

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This is racial bias in the NFL, the unintended consequence of a league run by white owners and coaches and GMs who, in the case of domestic violence, aren’t effectively policing themselves.

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“There are different perceptions and different responses to players of different colors doing the very same thing,” said Will Weiner, a noted Manhattan-based sports psychologist. “I think that’s definitely the case in the NFL. It makes it very difficult for athletes, and I think athletes of color are treated differently. I think there’s a softening of responses to white players who get in trouble versus players of color who get in trouble.”

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