RG 3: That Cornball Brother "Too White" Says Sports Commentator!

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Washington Redskins Robert Griffin III is the quarterback who is rising in popularity these days. Griffin played college football for Baylor University, and won the 2011 Heisman Trophy. He was selected by the Redskins with the second pick of the 2012 NFL Draft. Griffin was born on Okinawa, where his parents, Robert Jr. and Jacqueline, both U.S. Army sergeants, were stationed. He has been criticized by a Black sports commentator for being a "token!" That commentator said it in a way that he's been yanked off the television. Griffin and his fiancée Rebecca Liddicoat, a native of Boulder, Colorado are an interracial couple.

Rob Parker is an ESPN commentator was yanked off the Sportcenter!



Parker known for outlandish statements in the past got the "cornball brother" dig and ESPN has suspended him for it.

ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said: "Following yesterday's comments, Rob Parker has been suspended until further notice. We are conducting a full review."

Robert Griffin III with girlfriend Rebecca Liddicoat.

Parker, appearing on ESPN's "First Take" on Thursday, was asked about Griffin's role as a black quarterback. Parker questioned Griffin's "blackness."

"Is he a brother or a cornball brother?" said Parker, who is black.

Later, he said he wanted to find out more about Griffin and how he deals with black teammates and others in Washington.

"We all know he has a white fiancée," he said. "There was all this talk about he's a Republican, which, there's no information [about that] at all. I'm just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like, I've got black skin, but don't call me black. So people got to wondering about Tiger Woods early on."

Robert Griffin II, the quarterback's father, told USA Today Sports Thursday night : "I wouldn't say it's racism. I would just say some people put things out there about people so they can stir things up."

DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association, told The Washington Post in an email Friday: "Robert can certainly take care of himself. Nonetheless, I hope that our men and for that matter, my own kids, will never beg for authenticity from someone who can only talk about the things that other people have the courage to do. People need to be held accountable for the offensive things that they say."

I will testify to the liberal and conservative media for agreement that Black people are their own worst enemy!

Rob Parker: You've been served! 

That's what I hear coming from the likes of Jesse Lee Peterson, Micheal Steele, Alveda King, Herman Cain and outgoing Congressman Allen West (R-Florida). I hear it from the likes of Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-California), Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), Congressman Bobby Rush (D-Illinois), Congressman Hank Johnson (D-Georgia), Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and even President Barack Obama.

Conservative media upset over the comments. It rings echos of the short stint of then ESPN commentator and conservative agitating asshole Rush Limbaugh. The conservative agitator riled up the media by saying former Philadelphia Eagles star Donavon McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed. McNabb said that he didn't mind criticism of his performance, but was upset that Limbaugh made his race an issue and said it was too late for an apology.

A true player on and off the field.

Limbaugh left ESPN soon after but gave them a parting shot! Limbaugh told the National Association of Broadcasters at a convention in Philadelphia, "The great people at ESPN did not want to deal with this kind of reaction."

Limbaugh has been noted for making controversial race-related statements with regard to African-Americans. He has drawn connections between African-American appearance and criminality on several occasions, once opining that all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resembled Jesse Jackson, and another time that "the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons."