Posted on 12/14/2005 7:08:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
McNabb Responds To Racial Comments Donovan McNabb is not happy a local African-American leader said the Eagles quarterback used race as an excuse for his play on the field this year.
The latest Eagles' controversy has been brewing for more than a week, when local NAACP leader Jerry Whyatt Mondesire wrote an opinion piece for the Philadelphia Sun, which claimed McNabb used the "race card" as an excuse for his poor play.
Today, parts of an interview with McNabb ran in the Philadelphia Daily News, in which McNabb blasts Mondesire. The comments were originally made to reporters on Dec. 11, but are starting to surface now.
"If you talk about my play, that's one thing. When you talk about my race, now we've got problems," McNabb said.
"For the guy with the NAACP, I always thought the NAACP supported African-Americans, not talked bad about them."
McNabb is currently off his feet after hernia surgery and played injured for the Eagles since training camp until mid-November, when he was ruled out for the season.
However, Mondesire took McNabb to task in a blistering column that has a lot of people talking in the local African-American community.
Among the sound bytes in Mondesire's column:
-- McNabb was trying to mask his mediocrity behind "some concocted reasoning" that African-American quarterbacks who run are somehow lesser "field generals."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbc10.com ...
"For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada"
"i never think of my homeo local QB Mcnair as black"
Freudian slip or funny typo? :)
And Rush DEFENDED McNabb last week, saying he did the right thing, had been courageous all year by trying to play with a serious injury.
Broadway Joe is ready to go!
Dang. I thought that playing with a hole torn in your gut was a pretty good excuse.
Hey McNabb, The NAACP really supports the Socialist Democrat party in the guise of a racial organization....you're either with'em or against 'em...got it?
What does Mama McNabb have to say about this??
It's okay for Mondesire to knock McNabb, but when Limbaugh does it, it's an outrage? What nonsense. Limbaugh got canned for what he is - unabashedly conservative - not for what he said.
Has Mondesire ever played football, let alone professional football with a hernia? Mondesire must think his NAACP office confers on him the title of "official black man".
She say," Don't ya'll make come over there!".......
I'm betting you left a word out of the sentence.
Didn't even cross my mind...........
homeo
romeo+homey
prison slang...just playing around
and some percocets...hey somebody mentioned Rushbo
;>)
These days all Joe wants to do is kiss you.
The arm - the release - the attitude!
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