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While this deafening white silence [1] has Howard Cosell howling in his grave, DeMaurice Smith -- the NFL Players Association's Executive Director --is doing their job for them by encouraging NFL players to speak out “with candor and blunt honest

This white complacency is especially dangerous in a climate of racial backlash that has included a clearly noticeable rise of a media, message boards, and protest rally signs that are all, well -- "flat-out racist".

There is simply no greater social standing in sports than the great white quarterback, and Donovan McNabb can only nail two of the three criteria.

Given the paucity of white backlash, the confusion is not as shocking as it should be.

One way is for white writers – including myself – to end the “role-model” double-standard, and never spend another second over Michael’s meekness, Tiger’s timidity, or Lebron’s greater interest in dinero than Darfur [2].