Double Standard

[Don Wassall]

While black football players continue to be arrested right and left for murder, assault and sex crimes, when white football players do something stupid but not illegal it gets near equal billing:


FOUR LINEMEN THROWN OFF PENN STATE FOOTBALL TEAM


http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/11234714.htm


So they shot a couple arrows into an apartment wall.. . so what? When I was in college there was a kid in the dorm room next door who used to shoot arrows out the door into the hall. Someone could have been seriously hurt or worse if they were walking by at thewrong time. Stupid, very much so, but hardly worthy of being kicked off the football team.


Very interesting that Joe Paterno kept on the team a black DB accused of rape two seasons ago. He also refused to suspend or expel from the team a starting black QB who assaulted a white policeman because he was with a black woman (in the meantime this suddenly racially proud black QB had fathered a child by a white woman). But drunk white linemen do something dumb but not criminal in the privacy of their own residence and are booted off the team.Edited by: Don Wassall

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I think Ole Joe is trying to slowly turn happy valley into black valley before he retires. Other coaches have done the same thing, ala Bear Bryant starting a whole lot of blacks his last 2 seasons. Don, your right, Penn State has been a white-friendly program until the last few years. It was so good to see an all white line, FB, WR, and a more than average on defense too. What makes these old guys do these things I'll never know. It's just like Ohio State's Woody Hayes proclaiming Archie Griffin as the best college football player in the country in 1974. That comment did more for Griffin's 2 Heisman's than anything.

Your right about the double standard too. I know of things a lot worse than that that were accepted in full by coaches here in Mississippi. But I guess some people look for any excuse to get rid of some white guys.

 

[okra63]

Coaches take a lot of off of black players I believe because they are afraid of them and the press. The white lineman should still be on the team.

 

[Don Wassall]

Actually three of them were reinstated back on the team after it was proven that they weren't there participating in that terrible "crime against humanity" of shooting an arrow into an apartment wall. But in the meantime they had their names dragged through the mud, all for something that doesn't begin to compare with the real crimes committed by athletes thatcan be found in the newsevery day.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Don, what's so bad is that stuff like that happens all the time. No one ever apologizes for dragging those guys through the mud either, or "exercises restraint" when making comments about the situation on TV as they do for most blacks.

 

[Don Wassall]

The same kind of double standard in the treatment of players mentioned aboveis happening again at Penn State. Dan Connor played well enough as a freshman to become a starter at middle linebacker last year and a premiere player. The anti-white ESPN The Magazine even featured a full-page photograph of Connor in its 2005 college football preview issue a couple of weeks back.


Connor and a couple of other (white) Penn State players were recently caught making a "series of prank phone calls" to a former Penn State assistant. Quite stupid, yes, but hardly on a par with some of the appalling criminal acts committed by black players at Happy Valley who received little or no punishment at the time they were accused of committing them. However, Connor has been suspended indefinitely and is no longer listed on the team's depth chart.


There's a lot of talk about Joe Paterno "tarnishing his legacy" by coaching too long. Actually I think it's pretty cool that he's still physically and mentally sharp enough to coach as he nears the age of 80. The media continually hounds him about retiring, just as it does Brett Favre, Roger Clemens and other white icons. What bothers me is to see someone with his impressive credentials and clout be just another Caste System follower when it comes to the recruitment and treatment of players.Edited by: Don Wassall

 

[Colonel_Reb]

It is pretty sick to see, Don. I wish there were some coaches who, at the least, would treat players equally.

 

[Gary]

Penn State used to be a proud program with good White players. Those days appear to be gone. Joe Paterno should retire. There are loads of good White football players in Pennsylvania/Ohio for Penn State to recruit, they don't need a bunch of thugs who most likely won't graduate and add nothing to the school's image.

 

[Gary]

Penn State has had good solid White players like Jack Ham, Ted Kwalick, Matt Bahr, Shane Conlan, Glenn Ressler, Kyle Brady, Steve Wisniewski and who can forget John Cappelletti's moving speech when he won the Heisman Throphy[his little brother Joey was dying]. Come on Penn State return to GREATNESS, recruit White males who will give you 100% and graduate!!