Screamin A. Smith thinks it's a Race issue with Cam dancing

[mbarbour21]

45 minutes ago, The Link said:

Seems like it. I don't see anyone complaining when Rodgers does the Discount Double-Check thing when he scores.

That's because he doesn't score near as often. Lol!

[Panthro]

1 minute ago, Panthers8969 said:

no one wrote a letter to smitty when he wiped the footballs ass like a baby either. Its just one isolated idiot. No one wrote to palmer bc maybe seahwaks fans aren't that stupid and realize the winner gets to celebrate? This lady was just salty af her team sucks. Wouldn't she be writing to all dancing black people if she was racist?

I am not saying she is racist at all. I think there is quite a bit of unrealized bias that she and that even a lot of our own fan base has...

Same as when  women are considered bossy...

[TheRed]

1 minute ago, JakeR6 said:

Bomani is a great radio personality but he needs to stay away from social media. Check out his Twitter feed sometime, he makes himself look like an idiot on a near daily basis. 

That's pretty much become twitter in general. Who can say the stupidest stuff, and then later apologize for it.

[TheNewStandard]

The truth is...the Panthers will never be respected until we win a Championship. Most people don't even realize we made it to the super bowl, despite it being probably the most entertaining and greatest SBs ever played. Friggin' Kasay...I'll never get over that kick. NEVER

[mcdougal]

21 minutes ago, pantherjack77 said:

yeah he seems to have an issue with Cam...didn't like the green bay banner theft...doesn't like the first down pose, doesn't like the TD dancing ext...are these local folks even pulling for the Panthers?

Y'all think I am joking with this. Go back and look at the 49ers message board/local media, Washington message board/local media, Seattle message board/local media in the last 3 years.

Even at their heights, these fan bases contained a SIGNIFICANT amount of "fans" that absolutely HATED their young, black QB. I have maintained for years that Cutler, Stafford, and Bradford of the world are treated FAR more kindly when they are doing terribly by their fan bases, than when black QBs are actually leading their teams to playoffs with far less weapons to work with and coaches who don't even want them on their team.

The only white QB that comes close to being given the same treatment is Andy Dalton.

So I will ask the same question again. Why is it that on the Huddle we have more threads/posts criticizing a Newton TD pass than there are threads on Dolphins board when Tannehill has one of his 14/31 206 TD/3 ints games where his team losses badly to prevent them from going to the playoffs?

Why is it that between Cutler/Stafford/Bradford they have probably gotten 15 OCs fired but their fan bases are all to willing to give them another 100 million dollar contract?

People need to stop and open up their eyes and recognize that Newton for ALL that he has accomplished is about 2 bad games from a significant portion of the Huddle and local media for calling for Newton to be benched and traded.

And it has nothing to do with dancing.

 

[motocross_cat]

Him being black is part of it to some sure.

However i think its less a black/white thing and more of a cultural change issue.  Cam is leading a cultural change that we may not totally see until a decade from now.  He is changing the way we look at quarterbacks and some of the elder population cant seem to adjust.  

As a 25 year old white boy i say dap on.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Losers hate winners, it is just that simple.

Losers will rationalize that hate in just about any way possible. 

Cam is an easy target, he is a winner.

Panthers are an easy target, they are winners too.

Panther fans are going to have to get used to dealing with a lot of haters for years to come.

[Zaximus]

It's totally racism and it has been since he came into the league.  It's OK for black WRs and RBs to celebrate, because those positions are "supposed" to be filled with black people and that isn't as important as the "almighty" QB position.   White people are supposed to be QBs and lead the team and not black people, and if there is a black person doing this, they better act like Russell Wilson and RG3, and be articulate and all that "stuff".  That's the best way I can explain it.   Because Cam doesn't fit into their "white qb or acts enough white QB" status he'll always deal with this.

But when you have a black guy, with his own style, doing his own thing, even though others do it too, people just aren't ready for it I guess.  

[Moorgan]

1 minute ago, pantherjack77 said:

some interesting points here

I myself are well aware of how fortunate we are to have as great a player as Cam Newton...he is a stud athlete...he is a great competitor...he is developing into a great leader...and been a saint off the field...

Phrasing!

[beastson]

57 minutes ago, E CaT PanTHer 2 said:

LOL ... how is it a race issue when 90% of the entire NFL is black? What about every black defensive player celebrating after a sack? What about every black WR celebrating after a TD? 

Was it a race issue when Steve Smith would show up his opponents?

This is one of the most asinine arguments I've heard on this issue. 

Majority of the NFL is black

However only a minority of QB's of black, the position that is looked as the absolute leader of an entire football team. A lot of people hasn't come to grips with the reality of there being more black QB's in the NFL doing very well and leading their team to victories. Vick helped mold a generation of "black running QB's" that can't pass and play the QB position the "right way" from the "pocke"t. A lot of people thought Cam was just going to be another one of those QB's, but they've been proved wrong more than ever.

[Mr. Scot]

9 minutes ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

Losers hate winners, it is just that simple.

Losers will rationalize that hate in just about any way possible. 

Cam is an easy target, he is a winner.

Panthers are an easy target, they are winners too.

Panther fans are going to have to get used to dealing with a lot of haters for years to come.

Well said.  And I'm actually happy about that.

Heck, I hope in the next few years we give every fanbase in the league reason to hate us with a passion.

[Datawire]

https://mobile.twitter.com/jrkahler/status/667002571312275456

 

 

[teeray]

44 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

How much research have you done with other fanbases?

I've yet to see a single one that wasn't dripping with hatred for opposing QBs, especially successful ones.

Heck, how much hatred is there on this board for Matt Ryan and Drew Brees? For that matter, how do rival boards tend to view Kuechly?

When opposing fans hate our players, I don't necessarily read anything else into it (especially when we beat them).

If you want to make an academic exercise of it though, research the annual list of the NFL's most hated players that Forbes does. I don't recall seeing Newton on it, but Roethlisberger is a fixture.

Here's a similar article from SI.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/07/23/nfl-most-hated-dan-snyder-bill-belichick-percy-harvin

I have done plenty of research.

Most of them do talk about other QBs.  They are overrated, or are not clutch, or they suck, carried by their surrounding players, etc.

Havent seen the "thug", "criminal" "ghetto"' "dangerous to my children  pelvic thrusting" type commentary on most of those other QBs.

The other day I was watching a "Football Life" about the Oilers back in the day.  Warren Moon's teammates even said that as a black QB he had to be perfect.  Not just on the field, but be humble, articulate, even have a perfect family life or else he wouldn't be acceptable.  The players themselves are aware of it.

Also, the "scary hyper sexual black man who isnt able to control his animalistic urges" has been a red herring since the beginning of this country.

Fun fact:  cocaine used to be used for medicinal purposes and legal in that capacity.  One of the reasons it was eventually outlawed was because urban legends of black men using the medicine and losing control of their sexual impulses and were raping white women.

Because of things like that the imagery of "pelvic thrusts" by a white woman with her daughter being used by a lady who is supposedly head of a PR firm leads me to believe she knew exactly what she was trying to portray by using that type of coded language.

Yeah, race may not be the motivating factor for all of the vitriol, but if you think it isnt a factor you are like this guy:

 

[GoobyPls]

If you take that letter serious you're as retarded as the lady who wrote it.