Oh yeah, it’s that time again. I actually didn’t get that much mail. Most people were positive, but the people that weren’t…oh baby, that weren’t.
First, let me acknowledge a mistake I made–Vince did not wear a suit to the White House because his was lost in transit. That was largely immaterial to my thesis, but that was my mistake and I apologize.
(Here’s the original piece.)
I managed to pull of a rather amazing feat this go ’round. Not only have some black people called me an Uncle Tom, but some white person actually hit me all the way on hte other end.
I love my job.
Well, let’s start with my man Jo Jo. Jo Jo didn’t like the piece much at all.

you and all the black media are suckers. yall let the white media kill the black stars, but when it comes time to defend them you do nothing. do some covering up for them like the white media does for them white boys. i think yall are sell outs.

We’ll get to Jo Jo’s point later. For now, let’s see what Paul thought.

First of all, I want to say that wearing a suit to “Massa Bushs” house was GREAT! I would have worn traditional african gear myself. or a hoody and a baseball negro league cap. Kudos to Vince for not giving a YT that 10% or whatever it is that agents get. As for that test, typical White devil tricks! Well, my good brother, I am glad that I work for ME! I hire ONLY blacks and could care less if any crackers are left on the planet. I TRULY ROOT FOR VINCE AND HIS AGENT!
Black power!

Damn Paul, you won’t even get white folks to mop the floors? What kind of retribution are you really pulling off? If you’re so revolutionary, you should have a white dude or two shining your shoes and poppin’ your hair bumps, shouldn’t you?
But my favorite is Francene.

A stupid test? What an ignorant, ..no, what a nigger thing to say. Why else would anyone call a test stupid? No matter what your profession being somewhat “intelligent” is important. You are the idiot.

I told Francene to never talk to me like that again. That goes for many of you. No, that goes for all of you. Got me?
One of the best e-mails came from came from Dave.

How did he get thru school? How many classes or credits did he have/take? And, of course, did Texas cheat on academics?
In there is the can of worms.

To Dave and others who wonder about that question–I’ll have a piece on that either today or tomorrow on BSN.

***EDIT*** Here’s the link to that piece.
But now let’s get to Jo Jo and the folks that find criticism of black athletes in a public forum to be the behavior of a sellout. I have this argument with a lot of writers who seem to only want to write about black people when it’s time to celebrate them. That’s absolutely ridiculous. Sometimes, these cats need to be taken to the mat. Terrelll Owens needed to be taken to the mat, as have countless others.
Since I’m black, these cats seem to believe I’m supposed to just write them a pass. Hellllll no. I call things as I see them and that’s that. I do the same to white people, and there’s no one that’s quicker to point out racism when it’s in play. But just ignore things because the protagonist in a story’s a negro? Got me fucked up, pimp.
But I find people call me an Uncle Tom a lot because of that. People called me an Uncle Tom for having problems with Vince’s agent. So let me get this straight–I’m an Tom because I identified the primary reason that a kid was forced to endure the indignity of people openly questioning whether he is retarded? Is that what it is? That makes me a sellout?
The funny thing is those people seem to intimate that by saying Young should have gotten a more qualified agent that he should have gotten a white agent. Who’s the Tom now? There are experienced black agents, you know.
But all you cats that only wanna hear celebratory things about black folks, this ain’t the place for you and I ain’t the guy you wanna hang out with. I am nothing if not honest. I have no prior agenda. I see the world–albeit through a decidedly black prism–and I speak on it. But no one will be spared, not even if I have your picture up in my living room (like Vince).
Oh yeah, people think I’m just a UT hater. Yeah, that’s me. Check out Keith from LSU, who I think just wanted to dig at USC.

Vince Young carried a team on his back to the National Championships in California in front of a home-town crowd. Don’t try and rewrite history once again by getting on the bandwagon: as an LSU witness, we’ve gotten stomped by the media for the last two seasons fully unrecognized as the
true National Champions, recognized as the only National Champions for the 2003 season by the NCAA. Don’t perpetuate nepotism for your Southern Cal cohorts by glossing over the accomplishments of the 2005 Longhorns.

If you’re new to the site, just search the archives for mentions of UT and see what will come up. Then laugh as hard as you want to.
So yeah, that’s the mail for this piece. Gotta love it.
And before I go, let’s see revel in proof of another set of lies from our fair government. Not sure who cares, but I sure as hell do.