DMN Blog: Cowboys' Marty B responds on Twitter today

[jswalker1981]

I like where he's coming from.

He's moved past the racial dividers and is confident enough to have fun with it.

Race jokes have existed forever and I think it's better to laugh about stereotypes than to get mad and cause even more problems.

As long as people let things like this have power over them, they'll never truly get over the mistakes of the past.

Just my opinion anyway.

I feel the exact same way. I was watching ESPN's First Take this morning, and they had Skip Bayless and another guy discussing the video. I can' remember the other guy's name, but he was African-American. And he said that the video set back African-Americans 50 years. Are you kidding me? America just elected the first African-American president in the history of the US, and yet somehow, the Martellus Bennett video set African-Americans back 50 years. Stereotypes will only "set you back" if you let them. If Tony Dungy came out and said he wanted to be a head coach again, no team is going to say, no, we saw the MartyB Black Olympics video, and you can't coach. The video was a joke, and if it is taken any more than that, than people are confident enough in themselves to move on from previous acts of real racism. Laugh at the video, just don't take it seriously.

 

[Four]

Anyone seen the Grease movie from the 70s or 80s whenever it was, I don't know why but I think about it when I read about Bennett's barbs.

I miss people being able to laugh at ourselves...

 

[AsthmaField]

:laugh1:

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:laugh2:

 

[TheHustler]

People won’t let others be who they are. The mentality...if you don’t think, believe, act, have same morals as me...then i don’t like you. Primitive caveman mentality. MartyB, just be who you are.

Yeah. We should have just let Hitler do his thing.

 

[Big Country]

You all know what would be funny? A tweet by Leotis Brown. Leotis speak combined with Internet speak would be a riot.

Oh hell yeah. That would be an instant classic.

Some are taking Marty B way too seriously... I like the heck out of the guy. I am looking for big things from him this season.

 

[CowboysFan02]

I like where he's coming from.

He's moved past the racial dividers and is confident enough to have fun with it.

Race jokes have existed forever and I think it's better to laugh about stereotypes than to get mad and cause even more problems.

As long as people let things like this have power over them, they'll never truly get over the mistakes of the past.

Just my opinion anyway.

The more people get hung up on this the more it will just stay a sore subject.

 

[FLCowboyFan]

I wish he would stop trying to get attention. It always amazes me how people do things like this to get attention. Then they get it and get upset that it wasn't the type of attention they wanted.

Just play football! They guy has created way too much media off the field and very little on it.

 

[sbark]

Contrast to the great Reggie White statements of a decade ago.........

http://www.google.com/search?q=regg...ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLL_en

 

[Maikeru-sama]

I personally don't find Marty B funny. I'm not offended by anything he says but I could see how some would be.

Even though what he has been doing is very minor, if the Cowboys have a down year and he continues to make these videos throughout the season, this will become a major issue.