One of the things I really hate is the level of hypocrisy in the media. When John Rocker related his repugnant views about homosexuals and minorities to Sports Illustrated it created a national firestorm, with many questioning Rocker’s psychological fitness and calling for him to be suspended. Hundreds and hundreds of articles were written on the topic.
Now we learn Allen Iverson went ahead and recorded a gangsta rap album over the summer, complete with the obligatory lyrics glamorizing violence and insulting women and homosexuals. Nationally, however, it is pretty much a nonstory outside of the sporting press. The bottom line is there is a hypocrisy at work that holds white athletes to a different standard than minority athletes (my view, by the way, is that most athletes are hardly the sort of people I look to when setting my moral compass. They get paid to do a job, and I try to ignore their views on anything beyond their sport).
When Rocker ripped on gays he made the nightly news. Don’t hold your breath waiting to see Iverson there.