One would think that boxer Bernard Hopkins would have bigger things on his mind these days then whether or not Donovan McNabb was black enough. But one would be wrong.
From the Philadelphia Daily News:
According to Hopkins, McNabb had a privileged childhood in suburban Chicago and, as a result, is not black enough or tough enough, at least compared with, say, himself, Michael Vick and Terrell Owens.
“Forget this,” Hopkins said, pointing to his own dark skin. “He’s got a suntan. That’s all.”
Hopkins also implied that, while Vick and Owens remained true to their roots, McNabb did not, and that McNabb was rudely awakened when the Eagles traded him to the Redskins last year.
“Why do you think McNabb felt he was betrayed? Because McNabb is the guy in the house, while everybody else is on the field. He’s the one who got the extra coat. The extra servings. ‘You’re our boy,’ ” Hopkins said, patting a reporter on the back in illustration. “He thought he was one of them.”
Replace “guy in the house” with “slave in the house,” then replace “on the field” with “in the field,” and Hopkins’ message is Uncle Tom-clear.
According to Hopkins’ Wikipedia page, by the age of thirteen he was “mugging people and had been stabbed three times.” At seventeen, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison after committing nine felonies.
Is that what being black is to Hopkins? Because if it is, then McNabb probably isn’t too worried about Hopkins’ definition of being black. Maybe if McNabb did some jail time after being a detriment to society, then Hopkins would consider him “black enough.”
I would love to know what McNabb did in a previous lifetime to get so much criticism and verbal abuse in this one.
