White Privilege is upon us AGAIN: Manziel heralded as locker room hero for kicking crank & booze

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An addict kicking his addiction is a bad thing? :dahell:

Here is the thing, if he was black or non-white, the media would not be so quick to praise him for kicking his addiction.

I mean, at most he has less than 9 months sober, anyone who knows anything about addiction would tell you, he ain't nowhere near out of the woods with this yet.

So to laud his sobriety and recovery, it's a bit early, and we all know if he was not white this wouldn't be the narrative. He'd still be a troubled guy with off the field issues and this would be mentioned often, as it should be, and to be cautious with him.
 

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Here is the thing, if he was black or non-white, the media would not be so quick to praise him for kicking his addiction.

I mean, at most he has less than 9 months sober, anyone who knows anything about addiction would tell you, he ain't nowhere near out of the woods with this yet.

So to laud his sobriety and recovery, it's a bit early, and we all know if he was not white this wouldn't be the narrative. He'd still be a troubled guy with off the field issues and this would be mentioned often, as it should be, and to be cautious with him.


We already know this but what's with sh!tting on his recovery ?

"Anyone who knows about addiction"....


N!gga you the one posting about it not "anyone"....tell us what expertise you have to come to this conclusion and downplay 9 months of sobriety
 
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We already know this but what's with sh!tting on his recovery ?

"Anyone who knows about addiction"....


N!gga you the one posting about it not "anyone"....tell us what expertise you have to come to this conclusion and downplay 9 months of sobriety
I`m a Program Manager of a house of 14 adults dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues. And the truth is you don't need years of experience woirking w/ people with SA to know these things, you really only need to know a few chemically addicted people, which most do , it's pretty standard.

Been doing this for years, i`m all for supporting recovery, but this thread is very valid. Johnny been sober for a very shot period, and while that is great for him and his family, the media does not have such benefit of the doubt for non-whites in this situation.
 

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I`m a Program Manager of a house of 14 adults dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues. And the truth is you don't need years of experience woirking w/ people with SA to know these things, you really only need to know a few chemically addicted people, which most do , it's pretty standard.

Been doing this for years, i`m all for supporting recovery, but this thread is very valid. Johnny been sober for a very shot period, and while that is great for him and his family, the media does not have such benefit of the doubt for non-whites in this situation.


Breh there are anomalies out there, some addicts truly recover and get tired of giving their lives to chemicals.

Either way your relative dismissal of his sobriety is unbecoming for a professional who deals with this on the daily but since he's a coddled white athlete...fukk it

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Breh there are anomalies out there, some addicts truly recover and get tired of giving their lives to chemicals.

Either way your relative dismissal of his sobriety is unbecoming for a professional who deals with this on the daily but since he's a coddled white athlete...fukk it

I'll let you cook. Dapped and repped

No one's saying there isn't.

I think this is more about the media's response to quickly exalt him as a recovery success story, while they wouldn't do the same for a guy like Josh Gordon.
 

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Coli knee grows will have a new white person to :cape:for next week. Remember your fukk asses were defending Miley, then Beiber, then some other white dude over the past few weeks? Disgusting.
 

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I mean dude is a recent Heisman winner and just won a game last week so at least they have a reason to be talking about him...

But I'm not gonna hate on it cause addiction is a muhfukka...

But sidenote, between him and Bob, I'm tired of hearing about fukking back up QBs in week 3...
 
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