ICHEOKU says like in the early days of queers and homosexuals, we all are closeted regarding our racial preferences and biases against one another. We all are Jon Gruden except that we have not been caught so far, hence the pretenses everywhere that all is well with racial relations in America and that Jon Gruden was a one off racist freak who should be pilloried and cast into the lake of fire for such abominable conduct. It is not so and like crimes, criminals are innocent until caught, prosecuted and convicted.
Our thinking is usually internalized just as William Shakespeare rightly said in Macbeth through King Duncan, speaking about his surprise at learning of the betrayal of the Thane of Cawdor for which reason he was executed, that 'there is no art in reading the mind's construction in the face'. So, yes, if there is an app for reading the minds of people, more than 90% of Jon Grudens will be uncovered. It is akin to having sex which we usually do, except in few erotica cases, mostly in our confined spaces away from prying eyes. The only difference between us all and Jon Gruden was that he was caught and unfortunately, humanity is always ever judgmental and looking for someone to put on the stake and barbecue our sorrows and frustrations away.
If only we are not often tuned out from the teachings and particular admonition of Jesus Christ in the parable of the adulterous woman, and learn instead to always delay in casting the first stone since we all have equally sinned and fallen short of glory, may be Joe Gruden would have found some mercy. But no, as long as it wasn't the traducers, they can afford to pretend that they never uttered similar words or nursed it internally, and that their best friends and closest confidants and good neighbors are people of the opposite race, sex and gender. It is the great pretend which the world whirls on. Should he have lost his job and forced to resign as a result, ICHEOKU says does not think so, as suspension and salary deduction penalty would have sufficed.
ICHEOKU says is not in any way holding brief for Jon Gruden nor trying to excuse what his emails contained or trying to explain them. No, the effort here is that some of the issues which he was implicated with are continuously active, alive and well with us all in America as well as the rest of the world. They only come up for discussion each time somebody in the public light is caught off guards and mistakenly lets us into the recess of their hearts that we may truly see who they are. As a world that enjoys public spectacle, we gladly convert such unfortunate people into piñata for our entertainment and ridiculing as we beat them up so badly they bleed out.
Race relations is not the best it can be in America, neither is homosexuality freely accepted as a bona fide lifestyle. Many people despite their non vocalized or verbalization of their renunciation, still internally wages wars against people who are not their type nor belong in their community. Our deference to those "THAT ONES" is simple mere tolerance but not genuine acceptance.
So, yes, practically everyone has that racist impulses in them including mixed-marriage couples, who sometimes in their moment of disgust and heat of passion, vocalizes and lobs racial epithets directly at their partners. Even some members of the homosexual community during heated arguments or frustration, equally lash out at each other with derogatory names such as "fag*t". So, like everything in Vegas, he should have been allowed to remain with the Las Vegas Raiders and penalized through other forms.
It is not only President Donald John Trump or President Joe Biden or President Barack Obama or now John Gruden, that has ever nursed or entertained or even voiced out words which are not pleasant at others people outside their own type zone. It is the "me and them" or "we and them" complex which everyone shares, admitted many people have a way of masking or bottling up theirs until that ouch moment when it uncontrollably escapes them or their guard fails as with a friendly banter which got leaked.
If those emails were never leaked, nobody would even know that Jon Gruden has such a heart or even feels that way about others who are not like him. If they did not come out, no one would have ever known about the dark side of him which he kept under wraps until this leak, talk-less of ever fathoming his resignation from his $100 million ten year coaching contract with Las Vegas Raiders. Recall that the alleged emails were written some years ago and he continued coaching the team as if nothing happened, a team with majority players whose shades of skin color are different from Jon Gruden's. It is also possible too that some members of the homosexual community are in the Raiders team and/or management.
So, it was not a mistake that he said what he said in those emails as he has always felt that way probably since he attained the age of majority simply because he was born that way. Many Americans, across all the races, share the similar background of disliking other Americans outside their type. Racial identity is a subconscious microchip which human beings are born with. It frequently triggers war between people of different skin colors and it will stay with mankind until the end of time. For one unmasked John Gruden, there are millions of other unmasked Jon Grudens still lurking in the shadows, wearing the fake mask of accepting everyone in the public, but behind closed doors and in the dark recesses of their hearts, churns volatile racial animus.
Who would have expected such from the lovable and affable, although cocky Jon Gruden; impressionable, famous and rich fella who was constantly in the midst of black people who make up the majority of the Las Vegas Raiders. How could even the best seer have seen inside his dark heart to know of his lowly opinion of people who are different from him. ICHEOKU says must admit that he fooled so many and for far too long about his true feelings towards other people who are not like him.
He is a white guy and just like black people too, we do not necessarily, sincerely, like each other; we only tolerate one another as imperative convenience of living together demands of us all. Behind closed doors and outside public earshot, we constantly disparage each other based on our skin colors and other biases. We call each other names and we are always quick to go off on each other, especially against people who are not like us at the slightest provocation.
It is inbred in us human beings to always protect our turf and favor those who share our essentials, including skin type, sexual orientation, common beliefs and even religious beliefs. Our kind always come before others and this is what usually passes off as racism and/or homophobia. It is the "we and them" philosophy of survival which forces us all to put down those "outsiders" before they either take what we consider belongs to us, ours or wreck our community.
It has nothing to do with being a misogynist as women too are sometimes more horrible than Jon Gruden in the racist and homophobic department. It is ingrained in our DNA as human beings to hold opinions which may be considered repugnant to others; admitted many people have been inculcated enough or civilized enough to know how to suppress them and not let them run out randomly. But that does not mean it is not latent in all of us like a dormant volcano which can abruptly erupt any time the top blows off.
So, he has done all he can do and as expected, by resigning his head coach position with the Las Vegas Raiders. He also said that he was sorry and never meant to hurt anyone, admitted he was only sorry because he was caught; and yes, he did not mean to hurt anyone when he shared his feelings about some people who do not belong to his type. He was simply being gossipy with his friends or whoever he sent those emails and did not hurt anyone nor refused to coach a team because it was made up of black players.
ICHEOKU says his saying that Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of Michelin tires was more of an oversized exaggeration as nobody has lips that big, admitted he was being caustic with his remark. Ditto, whether or not NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is a fag**t and clueless anti football "pus*y" or should not have pressured St Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher to draft "queers" (Michael Sam) into the league.
These were mere expressions of how he felt about recent developments within the league which is remaking the league in the image of political correctness and woke culture. Many people have harped on them as well and such things would have easily passed for mere banters back in the good ole days, but not anymore. Not since liberal activism effort to completely emasculate men and detox masculinity took over America public space discourse and determined such as intolerable speak.
Although he should have been more circumspect with the changing times in mind, but the person he communicated the emails to is who brought him down and not necessarily the thoughts which he privately expressed. They are bad but if they were not leaked, nobody would have heard about them nor would the retribution have followed; a career ending action which has brought his coaching exploits with then Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a screeching end.
It is fate and it comes in different forms. Like Brutus to Julius Caesar, his friend has now done him in. A Super Bowl winning NFL coach falling from such a gracious Olympian height to the grass is one story of a man who faith played a cruel joke on. His end came like fast and furious and it was with a big reverberating thud. We are now punishing people excessively n America since the advent of the dreaded #MeToo feminists anarchist movement that a man's feelings which he expressed privately has now cost him his job and his friend leaked the emails. It is another case which screams is anyone out there really your friend? It is sad.
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