After the fake Penguin suits, top hats, and monocles came out in force after Richard Sherman did his best Booker T impersonation in the on-field postgame interview of the NFC Championship, Richard Sherman gets the best of his detractors again.
In a Seattle Seahawks media session, he basically called out the people who called him a thug.
Was his actions classless? You can say so. However:
1) If you expect choir boys in the NFL, you will be constantly disappointed.
2) I'm not going to stand on a holier than thou pedestal when I'm pretty sure the folks who threw the thug label on Sherman would probably not want a camera following them every second of the day.
Could he have handled it better? Yes. But I'm not going to scold a guy who was still on an adrenaline high.
Richard Sherman in today's media session said "Thug was now the accepted way to call someone the N-word".
I hate to say it, but if we are really honest with ourselves, you cant dismiss this statement.
Aaron Hernandez and Rae Carruth are thugs, they are murderers. Richard Sherman screamed and called out a player (and there was no need for a bleep or parental advisory disclaimer). There's a difference.
I've witnessed this from someone saying "They don't watch the NBA because of all them thugs". The NBA crime rate is actually pretty low, so draw your own conclusion on that use of the "thug" term.
Some will look at a black male and use the term thug, to hide that bad word they can't really say so they don't look racist.
Is it an epidemic? Of course not. But if someone tells you that there is no instance of that ever happening, they're lying.
I'm sure that Sherman's statements make some of you mad. The fact I see (even a little bit) of validity to it probably will make you mad too.
You gave Richard Sherman the spotlight with your fake outrage over an emotional (and obviously an opportunity to air dirty laundry) moment, and he threw it back in your face with this.
And I hate to say it, you cant dismiss his statements as false.
