Monday, February 24, 2014

Nigger, Please! NFL to Punish Language Infractions

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

A tip ‘o the hate to Countenance blog, whose biggest fan I am.

 

 

NFL to penalize use of racial slur


Updated: February 23, 2014, 7:34 P.M. ET

Common on Use of N-Word
Common joins Outside the Lines and provides his take on the use of the N-word. This contains language and content that could be unsuitable for younger children. Parental guidance is suggested.

OTL Preview 2/24: The "N" Word In Sports

Today on "Outside the Lines", a distinguished panel of guests join us to talk about the word that is rooted in hatred but is also used as a friendly term. Watch "Outside The Lines" every weekday at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN.

History of the N-Word In Sports
Byron Pitts of ABC News considers the role of the N-word in sports history, from Jack Johnson to Jackie Robinson, from Hank Aaron to Riley Cooper.

The head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which monitors diversity in the NFL, expects the league to institute a rule where players would be penalized 15 yards for using the N-word on the field.

John Wooten, the head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, anticipates that the NFL's competition committee will enact the rule at the owners' meeting next month.

"We did talk about it, I'm sure that you saw near the end of the year that Fritz Pollard (Alliance) came out very strong with the message that the league needs to do something about the language on the field," said Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, who is on the league's competition committee. "So we did discuss over the last three days."

We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room. Secretaries, PR people, whoever, we want it eliminated completely and want it policed everywhere. -- John Wooten, head of Fritz Pollard Alliance

Newsome also said the committee talked about other slurs coming under any possible new rule, including homophobic slurs.

Wooten, who previously has urged all players to stop using the N-word, thinks the NFL will rule an automatic 15-yard penalty for first-time offenders and an ejection for second infractions.

"I will be totally shocked if the competition committee does not uphold us on what we're trying to do," Wooten said, according to CBSSports.com. "We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room.

"Secretaries, PR people, whoever, we want it eliminated completely and want it policed everywhere."

Wooten thinks the competition committee will officially agree to the rule next month before presenting it to the owners.

"I think they're going to do what needs to be done here," he said. "There is too much disrespect in the game."

The competition committee meets for several days in Naples, Fla., next week, where they will decide what will be presented to owners at league meetings in March.

"We will now go down to Naples starting next Friday and spend more time talking about it,'' Newsome said. "We had some officials in our meeting that actually out there on the field and hear the language. We'll be able to put all that together and if there's a need to we will present something to our owners in Orlando.

"With any rule that we put into play we have to look at it from A to Z and find out any unintended consequences as much as the consequences. So, as it was stated in our meeting, there are mics everywhere, so if something has been said it's probably going to be captured somewhere. So there will be an opportunity to get it verified if we have to."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You may have seen this already:

Today's lesson: read the article below. Apparently the big story here is a bus driver was nearly killed, but a bible stopped the bullets hitting his heart. Assailants unknown. Motive unknown.

http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/news/crime-law/police-investigate-shooting-involving-rta-bus-driv/ndZWp/


But, read another source: learn that three "teens" did it possibly as gang initiation "to join the club.

http://www.whio.com/news/news/crime-law/police-investigate-shooting-involving-rta-bus-driv/ndZWp/


Finally, we learn the driver was stabbed and shot and these "teens" were were "polar bear hunting" or specifically targeting white people. Of course the article never describes "polar bear hunting" as hunting white people so presumably many readers still wouldn't know the truth that three colored men were hunting a random white person to murder.

http://wdtn.com/2014/02/24/rta-driver-shot-and-stabbed/


So there's the lesson. Three media sources and NONE tell the truth. NONE tell their readers that young colored men are our specifically looking for random whites to kill OR that this is so common it even has a name in the colored community ("polar bear hunting"). No, instead, the story is just some random unknown assailants "were involved" in a shooting (and stabbing) of a random driver who was saved by his bible.

If three white kids had gone hunting a random black, this would be the biggest story in the world for over a year. As-is, just another "dog bites man" and not even worth mentioning..

Stan d Mute

Anonymous said...

Should we be surprised at a childish rule for a child's game? Will players now run to mommy (referee) when they hear a bad word?

And meanwhile, news breaks that a black gang requires murder of a white person for initiation. Media reaction? Completely bury it so you need a PhD in reading between the lines to find it.

We certainly mustn't let anyone hear or read bad words. Some little fuzzy head might have his feeling hurt. But dead white bodies littering the streets? No big deal.

Stan d Mute

Anonymous said...

What they will not tell you also is that probably in 99 % of the instances where the "word" is used it is a colored player calling another colored player the "word".

Maybe even greater than 99 %.

Anonymous said...

Negro athletes are noted for "trash talk". Intimidate the opposition with filthy language. The other player is a mother f....., a mother f......, a mother f...... Etc. Goes on constantly and has been so for decades.

And don't try to change them, it is useless. That is just the way they are.

Anonymous said...

And this is some sort of growing phenomenon in sports? The "word" being used so frequently?

I doubt it. Can someone cite a rash of instances.