Texas superintendent regrets disparaging Deshaun Watson on basis of being a black QB
A Texas school district superintendent is claiming he regrets saying of the Houston Texans’ Deshaun Watson, “You can’t count on a black quarterback.” The comment was posted to a Houston Chronicle Facebook page, and the official said he thought he was responding instead to a private message from a friend.
“I wish it had never been posted,” Lynn Redden, the superintendent of the Onalaska (Tex.) Independent School District, told the Chronicle on Monday. The official, whose district is located about 85 miles north of Houston, was frustrated by a game-ending sequence in the Texans’ 20-17 loss Sunday to the Tennessee Titans in which Watson mismanaged his team’s final play.
“That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I’ve seen in the NFL,” Redden wrote in his Facebook comment. “When you need precision decision making you can’t count on a black quarterback.”
According to the Chronicle, Redden quickly deleted his comment, but a Houston-area resident captured an image of it and alerted the newspaper. “It’s important to make sure horrible words are met with consequences, especially for those in powerful positions with influence,” the resident, Matt Ericksen, said.
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These people should not be associated with schools.
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“I wish it had never been posted" ... as if some mysterious agent is responsible for posting it
I'll be honest, I just skimmed the first part of the article and saw that stupid passive voice in his own defense. I didn't even make it to the ISD statement until you posted that and I had to go back to see if it was real.
Fucking assholes indeed.
Historically, black athletes were given very limited opportunities to play quarterback in the NFL until the late 1980s, when the position began to become more integrated. Nevertheless, in a league in which approximately 70 percent of the players are black, only about 20 percent of quarterbacks currently listed on depth charts are nonwhite.
“I see it as part of the same historical package as bias — the view that minorities can’t be in ‘thinking positions’ — even after we’ve had Barack Obama as president,” said Cyrus Mehri, a Washington-based lawyer and counsel to the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which advocates for diversity in NFL coaching and executive ranks, in comments last year to The Washington Post.
One of the most decorated players in recent college football history, Watson twice led Clemson to the College Football Playoff championship game, winning once, and was twice a finalist for the Heisman Trophy before the Texans made him the 12th overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft. As a rookie, he enjoyed a remarkably effective stretch of play before injuring his knee midway through the season, and through two Houston losses this season, he has completed 59.1 percent of his passes for 486 yards and three touchdowns with two interceptions and an 84.5 rating, adding 71 yards on the ground.
Bald, in your face, racism from a Texas school superintendent!
This guy is in charge of teaching thousands of kids huh? Wonder why racism is alive and well in America?
