If Zolak had made this comment about any other race or gender, he would have been punished severely.
Since he commented on a black man, he didn’t get punished at all.
He just gave a half-ass apology for “racially insensitive remarks” and kept it moving as nothing happen.
People use the phrase “racially insensitive” because they don’t want to say what they really are, racist remarks. There is the only way you can objectively look at what Zolak said. Zolak himself might not be racist, but he obviously has racist feelings about rap music and black men who like to dance.
That is deeply ingrained in his soul somewhere.
The crazy thing is if you read the apology, he still notes he thinks “music” is a distraction. He just admits he should have specified “Rap music”.
“That’s something I know that’s drawn attention for being racially insensitive. I’m sorry for that comment, I didn’t need to make that comment. I should not even ever bring any sort of music into play, because I have no clue what’s going on in a player’s head,” Zolak said Sunday, as transcribed by NESN.com. “It’s been a rough last couple days here, and I wanted to do this on air. It’s the first time I’ve been on air since Thursday.”
Of course, he played the victim role. It must be so tough having to realize that you made a racist statement.
He did talk to Cam man to man, and he didn’t divulge what was said but pointed out Cam didn’t make a big deal out of it. Cam has been dealing with this the entire time he has been in the league. Almost every black quarterback has to deal with this from the media.
As I have stated recently, teams have gotten a lot better at just drafting and putting the best QB on the field, there are still some biases, but it has improved.
It has no improved in the media, where stereotypes about black men and QBs still run rampant.
Flip the page for Zolak’s initial statements and his apology.