Piff Perkins
Veteran
Real curious to see what Carl Nassib, the gay Raiders player, says about this. Because I doubt he's gonna trot out and defend this piece of shyt the way two black men trotted out to breathlessly defend him on live television for NBC. Outside of black people, who does this? If a man gets popped for saying wildly sexist shyt about women, random women in media/arts/culture/etc don't trot out to defend him. If someone says wild shyt about Hispanics, George Lopez doesn't jump out the bushes to say he forgives him.
Black people constantly pop up in these cases and I think a lot of it has to do with how black people generally receive power in this country. There's a very specific role of being the arbitrator or race whisperer who either vouches for a white person, or offers to sell a white person/product/thing to black people. The middle man role. That Al Sharpton grift where you tell the black folks that The White Man is sorry and you accepted his apology...while you cash the check.
Tirico has spent his life in that middle man position, but in the opposite way. Instead of appealing to black people, he's appealed to white people. He's been the guy you go to if you need to prove you aren't racist. The guy who laughs at your racist joke and gives you the greenlight to use it in public. This is just who he is, fellas.
Black people constantly pop up in these cases and I think a lot of it has to do with how black people generally receive power in this country. There's a very specific role of being the arbitrator or race whisperer who either vouches for a white person, or offers to sell a white person/product/thing to black people. The middle man role. That Al Sharpton grift where you tell the black folks that The White Man is sorry and you accepted his apology...while you cash the check.
Tirico has spent his life in that middle man position, but in the opposite way. Instead of appealing to black people, he's appealed to white people. He's been the guy you go to if you need to prove you aren't racist. The guy who laughs at your racist joke and gives you the greenlight to use it in public. This is just who he is, fellas.
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