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Black Players Sensing the Josh Brown Double Standard

October 25, 2016 | celebrity | Lex Jurgen | 0 Comments

Black former and current players in the NFL want to know why the Commissioner seems to be running a lose and completely objective standard on penalties for beating your wife or girlfriend. I mean, you gotta beat them, but shouldn’t the penalties be the same whether you’re a burly black linebacker or running back, versus a white placekicker?

Vonta Leach formerly of the Ravens noted how Ray Rice was suspended up the wazoo and then presumably excommunicated by ownership upon his return, while the punishment on Brown so far has been being grounded from the family trip to London.

My thoughts on Josh Brown vs. Ray Rice’s domestic violence case: Both of them were wrong for putting their hands on women. Rice has always told the truth about what happened and has owned up to his mistake. He has been going around speaking out against domestic violence. Brown has been abusing his wife for years and it’s documented. How can he still have a job with the NFL and Rice is blackballed from the league? Two similar situations and two different outcomes.

Brown’s domestic violence charges were initially hard for the league to adjudicate because despite accounts from his then wife of multiple threats and shoves and generally nasty bully shit, there was never any criminal prosecution. Nor was there any video tape which is what ultimately damned Ray Rice, having been initially handed out a light sentence. 

The bigger issue obviously is the Commissioner’s office dispensing justice based on public and media appeasement. It’s a kangaroo court. Hang ’em high if there’s an uproar. Let them go if nobody’s looking. The fact that the NFL is all about business and little about social justice is unmistakable. Also largely the best way to proceed. Parents punish their kids for non-criminal offenses. Employers fire people simply for being shitty. If the police aren’t involved, you’re asking a sports league to play judge and jury. A failed drug test is one thing. There’s science behind that. Being a super shitty husband is another.

The NFL is looking to cover their ass on the on-the-field and off-the-field violence of their gladiators. Tough gig. Thanks to Josh Brown’s own admissions of abuse and national media attention, look for his heart to be pulled from his thorax in a Temple of Doom type half-time number. When the field goal kickers are getting edgy, it’s time to check the juice. 

 

  Photo credit: USA Today

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