This calling people "racist" needs to stop...

I don't post much, because usually many posters have already pretty much posted everything there is to post before I get a chance to read the board. But over the past few days, I have seen the "racist" moniker being thrown at a lot of posters, so I'll speak my piece.

In this case, it doesn't take "racists" to know which QB DID NOT get in a bar fight after breaking curfew. By the same token, it doesn't take "racists" to know which QB HAS been charged by a grand jury (not just by the police), with misdemeanor assault. All it takes is someone who can read, or see, or hear.

And it doesn't take a "racist" to be sorely disappointed in an LSU player's response to all the trouble caused, directly or indirectly, by himself. I believe JJ's "not my fault" attitude, his refusal to accept any kind of blame for what the university has suffered,is wrong.

I don't mean I expect JJ to admit any guilt in the assault charge; it is likely a jury will find him not guilty. I will even grant that a four-game suspension and loss of the starting job, with a trial and civil suit still to come, is pretty stiff punishment already.

But I wish JJ had showed the grace and class to embrace his individual responsibility (even if others were responsible also) and forge a new path for himself and the team. Maybe if he, just once, quietly and sincerely said something like: "I really should not have been there; I should not have been involved; and I will make sure it doesn't happen again to me or the team", it would be easier to accept him as a team player. I know that just about everybody I've talked to, and in my business that's a lot, would then have been okay with the way this has played out.

Anyway, as to the "racist' thing, it has been my sad experience that quite often the real "racists" are those who always bring up the race card when they can't fight any other way. Unfortunately, it appears this is true again in this case, for it wasn't "race" which got involved in the Shady's fiasco. It was JJ.

Anyway, for all you dogmatic JJ apologists, you can't have it both ways. Don't brand people with the derogatory and racist "redneck" out of one side of your mouth, and accuse someone else of being "racist" with the other. It really makes your mouth look funny.