Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
McNair???
You do know that he was pulled over for DUI last year, among other things?
Yes, the charges were dismissed, but only on the somewhat dubious grounds that the officer "stopped him on a hunch".
Funny, when they pull joe average over, they call it probable cause, or suspicion of DUI. The charges generally stick pretty good too.
Sure, there are a FEW decent guys out there now, but as I said before, for every good one, there are a bunch of bad ones. Maybe that's because the media tends to display the dark side of the human species, but there sure seem to be enough examples to give them plenty to display.
Not all of the old time players, even heroes, were great role models. Many of them were less than honerable characters themselves. Many of them made mistakes so lets not look at the 'good old days' with rose colored glasses. There are enough stories of drinking and whoring binges from the 50's, 60's and 70's to fill an encyclopedia.
Saying that, the media didn't hype the badboyness of their transgressions. In general the media tried to cover over their transgressions because they were role models and because it was thought that pointing out their fallibility would lessen their positive impact on kids.
These days it seems the worst of the worst get the most attention and the most praise. There are plenty of positive role models, both black and white, in sports but unless you are beating up your wife, or involved in a shooting near a club, you don't seem to get much recognition. It is sad that in some black communities, a positive role model who keeps his or her nose clean is considered a 'sell out'.
Until these kinds of communities quit glorifying the most violent members of their group there will be no improvement. That change has to come from within, no amount of encouragement or browbeating from the outside will do it.
