49ers analyst suspended over racist comments about Lamar Jackson

Spylake said

Find me one successful person who believe blaming what happened in the past is the winning strategy going forward.

Remember the past, learn its lessons but dwelling on it can be an anchor to progress.

Put anyone of us in front of a microphone for hundreds of hours in a career and tell me none of you would say something offensive or stupid. REAL progress would be considering this a technical statement about optics and contrast instead of some racial dog whistle.

Reminds me of marriages where every new slight is relished as an excuse to relitigate every previous complaint in the marriage.

Just my 2¢

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Listen, I don't want to derail the thread and I would rather it not get sent to the EE, but part of the problem is assuming or thinking that racism is "in the past." A thing to be remembered. It is deeper than people picking cotton in a field at the hand of a whip. Institutional, structural, foundational and systemic mechanisms built into the fabric of our society. No, I am here to tell you, as a wealthy, successful black man that it is alive here in our present and not relegated to our past.

That aside, yes, persons can make mistakes. But, part of the progress that you are seeking is for persons to call out things that play to racial tropes and stereotypes. Telling the marginalized they are sensitive or to get over it or accusing them of playing the race card defeats progress. It's an attempt to maintain the status quo or, more deliberate, to reassert past societal norms. I understand the pendulum swing back toward equality can unnecessarily injure minor or unintended actions but that is part of the price we need to pay for a better society for everyone. Lamar Jackson's skin color has nothing to do with his performance on the football field. Full stop. His skin is not a performance enhancer. That's ridiculous. It should be called out.