It's not rocket science -- he knows what kind of world he lives in.
I think it does. It's not because I have some sort of "special insight", though sharing the same race he does, however, people (and himself included) seem awfully quick to throw his Stanford ed out there when they label his trash-talking "thuggish".
That's why I hold this opinion. It's like folks seem to say: "how can he be labled "thuggish", or "stupid"...he went to Stanford"?
I guess some people will never look past race. Kind of sad reading your post and defense on MLK day. Look, Sherman has *never* used his being "a black man" as justification for any of his behavior. Or the cause thereof. With no justification other than your opinion you made it a racial issue. You brought it up in an accusatory manner to explain why he acts the way he does. Go re-read your post.
What makes it worse is you are trying to "move the ball" from your racial insult to blaming others for defending him for being a Stanford graduate. What does that have to do with your racial insult? It couldn't be his general behavior is to raise his profile ($) and that his raw emotion after the game was genuine, raw, intense emotion that a loud mouth emotional athlete may have after making a play to go to the Super Bowel? Nope, his behavior has to be crouched racially
RE: Thug. I already addressed that. You can call him a thug. But I think it groups Sherman in with a crowd he does not belong in. The NFL is full of dudes who have been convicted of DUIs, resisting arrest, gun charges--freaking shooting people even, assault, beating women, rape charges, on and on. Come'on. Sherman is NOT a thug like that. Are people really fostering such hate for him over these things that he is going to be grouped with idiots who shoot people and get in accidents under the influence?
I get it that people don't like Sherman. He is a big, LOUD talker. Just like Sanders was. But so far he is backing it up with his play. It is a game, he is having fun. Don't like the loud mouth then root against him. But that doesn't make him a thug. There are some real thugs on the Hawks and 49ers (Aldon Smith? Parish Cox? Lynch has a history, too.) Where is all the lamenting of Smith getting the red carpet treatment considering the serious, serious accusations he is facing in court? Yet it is Sherman people are flooding his twitter account with IDIOTIC racial slams. What did Sherman do? In the biggest game of his life he made the game saving play along with Malcom Smith that sent his team to the Super Bowl. He did it against a team he hates, a coach he hates and feels did him many wrongs, against a player he feels disrespected by in the media. Sherman was a 5th round pick who has navigated the media to gain extreme exposure (e.g. 10th best selling jersey) for such a low pick playing a low-key position and is targeting a big pay day.
I have read far less vitriol toward
Josh Brent than toward Sherman. Killing someone and endangering lives is a footnote, but going crazy after a career defining moment is worth racial slurs. You wouldn't even know the Brent trial was going on based on all the attention on Sherman.
Heck, let's talk about classless. BB called the Welker pick, "
Its not for me to decide, but its one of the worst plays Ive seen". Welker could be telling the truth that he expected Talib to move deeper and he was trying to jam his inside shoulder. Maybe he was setting a hard pick. But for BB the day after to call it one of the worst plays he has seen is a joke. He constantly insults Welker. Speaking of Talib he was outright hostile hours after the game.
He told reporters, Get out of my face, mutherfker. PFT was right when they said, "If Richard Sherman had said something like that, the Twitter servers would have spontaneously combusted." I don't see anyone lamenting Talib's behavior or claiming his behavior is rooted in the color of his skin.
People don't like Sherman. They don't like his big mouth. They don't like he is good and is beating a lot of people's teams. And they don't like he walks to his own beat. But these things don't make him a criminal thug. And they certainly don't excuse the thousands of idiots using their dislike for his personality--and him making a mistake--as a pathway to express their own deep seeded racism. Making this a racial issues says a lot more about the people throwing it out than it does Sherman.
Finally, it isn't Sherman who is taking away the focus from his team. It is the press and people who want to continue talking about it. Sherman went nuts after the play, no doubt. A two minute interview where he did not curse, threaten anyone, or break any laws has grabbed more attention than both games, the probowl, far worse comments from other players and coaches, and a criminal trial of a recent NFL player. And my opinion is if a clean cut white guy made Sherman's comments this would be a dead issue. But because he wears dreds he must be a thug. Hence stupid comments like, "because his is black he thinks....".
Ps- The way people are treating Sherman makes me like him more. I feel he has made himself a BIG target in the NFL, of his own doing and deserved. But he is getting treated pretty badly for something frivolous. I am so far and away different from him, and don't approve of his post game comments, but I respect his hard work, passion, and how he is using media to be successful. I would never do the things he does but no harm no foul. He is a loud mouth. But he doesn't deserve the
real hate being brought on him. From everything I have ever read in his own time he is spends a lot of time helping those in need. That is a true measure of a person.