ethnicities and the NFL

the interaction of ethnics, minorities, pick your term in the NFL, has a real history.

It took until 1987, in the 20th century of educated, "enlightened" and "equal" people in the world, for a black person to be a starting quarterback in the Superbowl ( Doug Williams).

The topic  is an uncomfortable one for everyone involved because regardless of the "truth" of the situation,  it really is one of those topics that as humans, we should have grown beyond by now, yet many haven't.  Thus forcing the issue to the forefront occasionally.

I am what this society calls a "minority" ( I'm xicano and native american) but that's just a cultural identification.  People identify themselves by various terms, depending on the topic.  
If we discuss nationalsim, there is the "American" "French" Mexican" etc ID.   In the Gender wars, there is Man, boy, Woman, girl, etc ID's.

all of these kinds of identifications are not a definition of who we are, but what we think are.
How we describe ourselves.

To look at a player, and the discussion of a players performance and just assume that any critical comments might be related to "racism" or something other unpleasant automatically assumes that any positive comments in that discussion must be similarly prejudiced.

If we are accusing of criticizing someone of being a poor sport and that is because of racism, then when we praise their talents or performance, is that also then because we are recognizing their "ethnic" ability to perform in a particular way?

I think it is time for all humans to get off the race card bus and start to acknowledge that race id is still around because there are some characteristics in people of certain races or ethnicities that are often obvious in their performances.

That is most often a reflection of human adaptation amongst a group of people living in a geographic region which requires the inhabitants to adapt or "evolve" if you will, to develop tendencies that will best afford them to live in said geographic region.

With the world having seen humans leave their geographic "homes" of so long as technology has created more ways of swiftly moving masses of people around more conventionally, many people are introduced to people from other geographic areas they may never have seen or known of before and they are sometimes awed by the characteristics that have come to be in folks who have come from an area that required certain abilities in order to successfully survive.

Now, this is a long, drawn out text trying to say,

let's get over ourselves and instead of complaining about what someone may look like or a physical capability due to geography, let's appreciate the talents and fine collection of talent from around the globe that has has been brought together to create the greatest NFL football team in the world.

The KC Chiefs.

Big Bear