Barrett Robbins

[jaxvid]

I think the Barrett Robins story is going to be big. Yahoo is featuring it on it's home page. It has a lot of the things the media is looking for. Angry white male, steroids, mental health problems. Nevermind that dozens of black athletes pull this crap every year. I think the media is going to make a big deal about this one. Just like Scott Peterson was a big deal when that kind of thing happens with minorities all the time. At least it will intensify the attention on steroids.

Note how the Raiders got rid of Robins because of his positive steroid test but across the bay Barry Bonds is still a hero!

 

[IceSpeed]

White players such as Barret Robbins and Bill
Romanowski are constantly attacked by the media. They are superb
athletes and white, so the media must go all out to bring them
down. Offensive linemen and some linebackers are the media's
biggest threat so naturally they are attacked the most.

 

[Don Wassall]

The common media tactic whenever mentioning athletes who have committed serious crimes is to always include at least one white in the group even though roughly 98 percent of the offenders are black. But there hadn't been a white athlete accused of murder or attempted murder until this, at least that I can think of offhand. Even if he is found to be completely bonkers, which it sounds like he is, Robbins will now always be included whenever O.J., Ray Lewis, Rae Carruth, Jayson Williams & Co. are mentioned.

 

[kevin]

remember the good old days when ray lewis and oj simpson where murderers. oh wait that whole ray lewias thing never really happened. that must have been a dream i had. i forgot to metionion that i had this crazy dreamabout 4 years ago where ray lewis murderered someone at a superbowl party, but then i realized it never happpened or at leatst that is what the media wants you to think.

 

[bigunreal]

What's even more revealing is the response of the police here. Do we
have another instance, in all the annals of black athletes commiting
violent crimes, of the athlete being shot by police? If you sifted
through Corey Dillon's JUVENILE record, you'd know he was charged with
assaulting a police office (among countless other offenses). Randy Moss
ran his vehicle into an officer repeatedly in recent times. Chris
Webber, when he was with the Wizards, slammed his car door on an
officer's hand. Sean Taylor, just this past season, refused to take a
breath test (like all pro athletes do now, unlike average citizens, who
don't even know they have this right), and became beligerant with the
state trooper who arrested him, calling him an "Uncle Tom." There are
other incidents, which are too numerous to mentioin, which literally
happen all the time, featuring some sort of physical altercation
between black athletes and law enforcement officers. Considering the
low tolerance most officers have for someone even giving them any
verbal abuse, I would think they'd be a little trigger happy when
someone physically attacked them, which many black athletes have done.
I guess maybe they all instinctively know that, if they ever shot any
black athlete, no matter how justified it was, the typical black
professional agitators, as well as the jock-sniffing white journalists,
would be expressing concern and outrage. The reaction to the Robbins
incident, if he were black and everything else was the same, would
obviously be a lot different.