If he were white he’d either still be starting or be a highly paid backup somewhere. I know, I know, the NFL’s a post-racial “meritocracy” and all. That’s what explains Ryan Lindley starting a playoff game last year and a guy with 80 TDs and 67 INTs being out of the league, right?

The guy whose career got destroyed 2 years ago for not being a Schiano Man.

And even then, what did Shakur do that was so positive that she deserves to have a building named after her?

Breaking people out of jail cannot be an option unless you're ready to challenge the very legitimacy of the authority that administers and funds the jail.

I don't know how the jail (i.e., the administrators and policies therein) is racist, as it's not up to the jail whether anybody actually ends up within it.

"In regard to the political state of the Colonies, you must know that they are so many inferior societies, disunited and unconnected in polity. That while they deny the authority of Parliament, they are, in respect to each other, in a perfect state of nature, destitute of any supreme direction or decision whatever,…

"the system simply cannot celebrate someone who is living symbol of the complete defiance of the system."

What I'm saying is fuck your racist government and its racist jails. If you want the moral authority to put people in prison there has to be an element of consistency and justice in the system. There is not. The vast majority of people in prison are there for mental illness, drugs and other petty crimes. Therefore,…

Yeah, except that the majority of people in prison shouldn't actually be there. Our criminal justice system is a corrupt, racist institution—particularly the prisons themselves.

Think long and hard about how many actual killers have things named after them. We're talking, like, most cities and airports here. Not just single murders or people who escaped via bloodless prison breaks either, people who ordered or personally took part in mass murders of innocents. But yeah, she's a black woman…

Hey Anthony, best of luck in the pros. I hope there are enough teams out there in need of a quarterback who realize how irrelevant height actually is to success in the NFL and that you get the chance you deserve.

Or you could say that like many young black men, every system he's been a part of has been stacked against him from the day he was born. He was placed in the substance abuse program the moment he entered the league because of his suspension in college. There aren't many 20-23-year-olds who would be able to pass weekly…

Josh Gordon clearly does not have a drug problem. That's the sad part about all this.

He gets tested more than 70 times per year and his one failure during that time period was a trace amount of marijuana that wouldn't even register in the testing procedures used in any other sport. He could have easily tripped that quantity by being exposed to second hand smoke (or maybe he took one toke in a moment…

That's cause he is better than you. Much, much better than you.

Bingo. Being a public enemy can be very lucrative. Just ask Lloyd Blankfein or Jamie Dimon.

1) Josh Gordon is a football player. He's very good at it. He deserves to compete at the highest level and he's never actually done anything wrong other than the DUI, which lots of players, coaches and owners have on their records.

Because the conditions are bad policy and the NFL is effectively a monopoly, which means that somebody who wants to be a professional football player can't just go and work for a another company with a more sensible policy. The fact that Gordon wasn't actually suspended for the DUI but was suspended for testing…