Questions About Pacman Jones and Tank Johnson

The NFL (and sports) is still plagued with racism and anti-Semitism (just ask Bill Russell, Al Davis, or many others).

The behavioral problems (specifically, alcohol abuse) of white people get rationalized (ex, Jared Allen, Matt Leinart) while the behavioral problems of black people get irrationalized (ex, Pacman Jones). 

In the case of Matt Leinart, he administered alcohol to underage girls in a dangerous manner, and no one cared.  Alternatively, they voiced their admiration for Leinart. 

No one questioned whether Leinart engaged in lewd acts with girls that were under the influence, and not of legal age to drink.

If he had, that would have been rape.  No one investigated or even asked.  If Leinart had been Terrell Owens, then I guarantee that TO would have been compared to Darrell Russell in suppositions and conjecture.

I do not know what transpired at that party.  That though is what disturbs me. 

I do believe that the reason we "don't know" is that Leinart is white, whereas, had he been black, we would have known every gaudy detail about it, along with endless rumors and abstract moralism.

Moreover, Jared Allen has committed what is the equivalent of a felony DUI in some states by one arrest in Idaho in 2002 and two arrests in Kansas in 2006, yet Allen was suspended for only two games, after he had spent time in jail.

Meanwhile, Tank Johnson was suspended after a cluster of legal issues, most of which were thrown out.  The only issue that stuck is that Johnson had illegal possession of guns in Illinois.  However, the same possession would have been legal in his home state of Arizona.

In other cases, police arrested Pacman Jones for disorderly conduct in public, while strippers have twice accused Jones of spitting on them. 

I hope that you don't infer that I think that the word of a stripper has no inherent veracity, but the fact is, the courts only ordered Pacman to stay away from those clubs or was given probation, partially extended from a bar fight he engaged in, while in college.

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