https://youtu.be/eoXweagxyaM
As you know Shaun King wrote a long piece on Peyton Manning’s incident with an athletic trainer at Tennessee.
It wasn’t so much a new story (BSO revisited the story a week before the Super Bowl) as much as a lot of people just had never heard of it, so it forced mainstream media to react to it.
Even those in mainstream media who knew all about it, but just never spoke on it, were forced to say something, which is good.
Shaun King is a controversial figure so his past issues became a part of the story, but this is when I always remember something my professor to me.
Just because you don’t like the messenger doesn’t mean the message is wrong. I don’t know Shaun King, so have no feelings for him personally, what I do know is bias, prejudice, ignorance and stereotyping in media, specifically sports media is a real thing.
With someone like Peyton, I don’t think it is so much a racial issue as media just likes Peyton more than most, so they are trying to protect his legacy. If Tom Brady had done this in college more people would have known about it. Cam Newton’s faults are always tied to what he did in college and it is brought up frequently.
Ben Roethlisberger’s settlements on rape cases are rarely brought up by media, Michael Vick’s dog fighting case always is.
So, this really isn’t about Shaun King, but he makes one point that I think is 100% true even if the premise of the statement has far greater meaning than what is happening to Peyton Manning.
He says that the oppressor always thinks something is old news or doesn’t exist. That is correct, even though Jameis Winston has never been arrested and there is no concrete evidence that he did or didn’t rape some, he will always be called a rapist by some in media.
While Big Ben who paid off accusers will always get the benefit of the doubt.
I thought this was good interview by Stephen A. I like Stephen A. on the radio more than TV, less yelling and more thoughtful analysis.
