Dallas Cowboy Martellus Bennett ‘Black Olympics’ video

dallas-cowboy-martellus-bennett-‘black-olympics’-video Dallas Cowboy Martellus Bennett’s ‘Black Olympics’ video is here. Dallas Cowboy’s video shows disrespect to civil rights heroes.

At one level that’s not a bad thing. You have to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything, as the saying goes. And you certainly can’t go through life trying to please other folks because you’ll never be able to do it.

But Bennett should have more respect for the sacrifices that tens of thousands of African-Americans have made so that he can do and say whatever foolish things he wants on MartyB TV.

Not just the sacrifices by people we hear about all of the time, such as Rosa Parks, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Chaney, but the anonymous folks who held sit-ins and organized marches and protests so that my kids can splash around freely at Cedar Hill’s Uptown Village on a muggy Sunday afternoon with a kaleidoscope of races.

After watching a youtube video created by Martellus Bennett and his brother one can only think these guys have too much time on their hands. If you think about it a little longer you will conclude that they do not have sense enough to know they play right into the stereotypes they purport to want to dispel. Bennett and his brother recently posted a video entitled The Black Olympics. Their games feature fried chicken eating, watermelon eating and Kool Aid drinking. “I don’t really think it’s offensive,” Bennett told Irvin. “It depends on your sense of humor and how you look at things. We were just having fun and it was very funny for me and my brothers, when I look at it I just can’t stop laughing. If someone takes offense, I apologize. That wasn’t my intention. It was just us having fun.” Bennett went on to say “There’s white comedians that do stuff like that all the time,” he said. “I think it’s funny to attack stereotypes. It’s funny how people just put people in a certain light and say that’s what all the people do of a certain race or particular person, so it’s fun to attack those stereotypes.” I watched the video and I found it to simply be sad. Bennett needs to be held accountable. Far too often we give black people a pass on this kind of thing, but if the same video had been posted by white football players we would be speed dialing Al Sharpton. We would be demanding that the players undergo racial sensitivity training. These guys need to perhaps sit down with some of our elders that survived the struggles of segregation and learn a little something because this video clearly shows they have a lot to learn.

Dallas Cowboy Martellus Bennett ‘Black Olympics’ video

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