I haven’t decided how I feel about this yet, the N-word has a lot of history behind it. Andddd I know people that use the word thug and it doesn’t have anything to do with a person’s race. What I do think is that people have been unfairly criticizing & judging Richard Sherman. I don’t think he did anything wrong. I think he was just being passionate about the game. Yes, I know — there are some that will totally disagree with me and I’m good with that.
During a press conference yesterday Sherman addressed some issues from his postgame rant from the NFC title game including that he thinks ‘thug’ is an accepted way of calling someone the N-word. I’d love to know how our readers feel about that?! Check out what he said & weigh in….
Via ESPN:
Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said Wednesday that his postgame comments Sunday were ”misdirected and immature” but he is not a villain or a thug.
“We’re talking about football here, and a lot of people took it further than football,” Sherman said. “I was on a football field showing passion. Maybe it was misdirected and immature, but this is a football field. I wasn’t committing any crimes and doing anything illegal. I was showing passion after a football game.
“It is what it is. Things like that happen and you deal with the adversity. I come from a place where it’s all adversity, so what’s a little more or people telling you what you can’t do. I really was surprised. If I had known it was going to blow up like that I would have approached it differently, just in terms of the way it took away from my teammates. That’s the thing I feel regretful about.”
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Sherman was most concerned by the people who called him a thug.
“The reason it bothers me is it seems that’s the accepted way now to call someone the N-word,” Sherman said. “They say thug, and that takes me aback. Maybe I’m talking loudly on the field and saying things I’m not supposed to, but there was hockey game where they didn’t even play hockey. They just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I thought, ‘Oh man. I’m the thug? Geez.'”
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