April 29, 2010, - 2:09 pm
Favorite Job Interview Question of the Day: “Was Your Mother a Hooker?”
So, let me get this straight. Rush Limbaugh isn’t allowed to be a part owner of an NFL team because conservatism is “racism.” Yet, an NFL general manager can ask a black football player whether or not his mother was a prostitute. On the other hand, while the mainstream media wants you to believe the question was racist and in incredibly poor taste (but not illegal to ask, by the way), they’re not giving you the full story (including the race merchants and whiners at FOX News).
“Was Your Mom a Hooker?” Probably.
If you’re gonna invest millions of dollars to pay a player on your team who is from America’s killing fields, the question is legit. Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland asked the question of then-NFL hopeful Dez Bryant a month or so prior to last week’s NFL draft, when Miami was considering drafting the Oklahoma State wide receiver, who was expected to go in the first round (and was ultimately drafted by Dallas). Would you want to invest millions in someone with a troubled family background without doing due diligence and asking questions? We know about the heaps of NFL players from such backgrounds who end up committing crimes themselves and end up off the rosters or suspended from games.
And, as it turns out, Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland’s question to wide receiver Dez Bryant has some basis. His mother, Angela Bryant, was, in fact, a drug dealer and addict who was only 15 when she gave birth to him (and the father was more than twice her age–where I live, we call that statutory rape). She is also a convicted criminal, who spent 18 months in prison, in 1997-98. Because of this, Bryant was shuttled from relative to relative as a kid.
Given all that, it’s very possible and, actually, likely that she was hooking for drugs, as is not that uncommon for people of that ilk. I note that these, um, “inconvenient” facts are strangely missing from almost all of the outraged–outraged!–indignant mainstream sports media reports. When you talk pro athletes in the NFL and NBA, you ain’t exactly talkin’ class folks from the ‘burbs–and that goes for the Whites (babydaddy and babygrandpappy Brett Favre, anyone?) AND the Blacks, especially in the NFL.
So, the question was legitimate. And in my view, Ireland wasn’t only responsible to ask it, he was required to, even if Bryant seems to have overcome this past. Still, in the predictable mainstream sports media, he’s the “bad guy” for asking. And he was forced to apologize. Nauseating.
This is the NFL of today and basically for the last couple of decades or more: kids whose mothers were drug dealers and possibly hookers. Kids from broken families.
And, strangely, these are America’s heroes. Wow, we aim high. Don’t we?
Tags: 15, Angela Bryant, Black, convicted criminal, Dallas, Dallas Cowboys, Dez Bryant, drug addict, drug dealer, General Manager, hooker, jail, jailtime, Jeff Ireland, Miami Dolphins, NFL, prison, prostitute, Racism, Single Mother, Was your mother a prostitute?, wide receiver
I guess the real question is why, apparently, neither the questions nor the answers were subject to confidentiality agreements.
Jewish Marksman on April 29, 2010 at 2:39 pm