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Philadelphia ? Donovan McNabb is still taking shots ? the latest from an NAACP leader who criticized the quarterback's leadership skills and said he ?played the race card? in explaining why he no longer runs the ball.
J. Whyatt Mondesire, who publishes a newspaper for blacks and is the president of the Philadelphia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, recently wrote that the Eagles' star quarterback failed as a team leader and choked in the Super Bowl.
McNabb responded sharply, but Mondesire hasn't changed his stance.
?He doesn't get it,? Mondesire said Wednesday. ?If he got it, I wouldn't have written the article.?
Mondesire, publisher of the Philadelphia Sunday Sun, criticized McNabb in a column in his newspaper on Dec. 4.
He wrote that McNabb's tendency to run the ball early in his career ?not only confused defenses, it also thrilled Eagles fans,? but that abandoning that element ?by claiming that ?everybody expects black quarterbacks to scramble' not only amounts to a breach of faith but also belittles the real struggles of black athletes who've had to overcome real racial stereotypcasting in addition to downright segregation.?
Mondesire said the bottom line is that McNabb is ?not that good.?
?In essence Donny, you are mediocre at best,? Mondesire wrote. ?And trying to disguise that fact behind some concocted reasoning that African American quarterbacks who can scramble and who can run the ball are somehow lesser field generals ... is more insulting off the field than on.?
McNabb was stunned by Mondesire's comments.
?Obviously, if it's someone else who is not African American, it's racism,? McNabb told reporters attending his annual holiday party last Saturday. ?But when someone of the same race talks about you because you're selling out because you're not running the ball, it goes back to, ?What are we really talking about here?'
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J. Whyatt Mondesire, who publishes a newspaper for blacks and is the president of the Philadelphia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, recently wrote that the Eagles' star quarterback failed as a team leader and choked in the Super Bowl.
McNabb responded sharply, but Mondesire hasn't changed his stance.
?He doesn't get it,? Mondesire said Wednesday. ?If he got it, I wouldn't have written the article.?
Mondesire, publisher of the Philadelphia Sunday Sun, criticized McNabb in a column in his newspaper on Dec. 4.
He wrote that McNabb's tendency to run the ball early in his career ?not only confused defenses, it also thrilled Eagles fans,? but that abandoning that element ?by claiming that ?everybody expects black quarterbacks to scramble' not only amounts to a breach of faith but also belittles the real struggles of black athletes who've had to overcome real racial stereotypcasting in addition to downright segregation.?
Mondesire said the bottom line is that McNabb is ?not that good.?
?In essence Donny, you are mediocre at best,? Mondesire wrote. ?And trying to disguise that fact behind some concocted reasoning that African American quarterbacks who can scramble and who can run the ball are somehow lesser field generals ... is more insulting off the field than on.?
McNabb was stunned by Mondesire's comments.
?Obviously, if it's someone else who is not African American, it's racism,? McNabb told reporters attending his annual holiday party last Saturday. ?But when someone of the same race talks about you because you're selling out because you're not running the ball, it goes back to, ?What are we really talking about here?'
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.a...e=56351079-6EBD-455D-A257-4C05C1732E75
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