Racist Hate Mail Reportedly Sent to NFL Players

[MadScientist]

What do you think about this?????

Racist Hate Mail Reportedly Sent to NFL Players
Thu Dec 4,10:47 AM ET



MIAMI (Reuters) - A dozen black NFL players have been sent threatening hate mail telling them African-Americans should not be allowed to play professional football and earn stacks of money, a newspaper reported on Thursday.


Florida's Palm Beach Post said the NFL's security department sent out a memo last week warning players, and stating that the letters all appeared to come from the same person and were postmarked in Erie, Pennsylvania, or Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio.


"We do not have any suspects," special agent Robert Hawk of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Cleveland office told the newspaper, saying the bureau was investigating the letters and would prosecute whoever was sending them.


"These letters contained veiled threats. There were overtures of violence," Hawk added.


No one was immediately available for comment at the FBI (news - web sites) office in Cleveland, nor at National Football League headquarters in New York. A spokeswoman for the FBI office in Miami told Reuters she had no information on the case.


The Palm Beach Post said one of the targets of the hate mail was an unidentified player with the Miami Dolphins.


"It was a threatening letter," Dolphins team security investigator Stu Weinstein told the paper.


"It said: 'African-Americans shouldn't be allowed to play professional sports and shouldn't be allowed to make the money that football players make and entertainers make.' Mostly it was about the dangers of racial mixing in our society."


The NFL memo said the sender was usually identified as "All Whites" or "Angry white women."

 

[mod1]

That shit is crazy.

I don't like any races people.

 

[Ominous]

Sometimes I get worried that racism might come back like a fad or something. You know how things move in cycles. For example, a lot of people are in throwback mode. Old style clothes, old cars, things from the eighties are coming back, etc.

I have been fascinated with the Cinncinati police brutality case because both sides of the argument have excellent points but I am reluctant to talk about it since from some it is a touchy issue. I think the wild part is the lawyer for the family doesn't even want to bring race in as an issue. He is focused on the idea of a human being having to endure the type of treatment the police gave him which is a pretty good angle.

I don't know man. When am dealing with someone who is having an issue with someone's race, I get a little worried about the level of that person's intelligence because of all the problems to have in today's world, the color of someone's skin should not be one of them.

Like this guy writing letters to black players in the NFL. If you are smart enough to write a whole letter and use the U.S. postal service to send it but you can't understand that the color of someone's skin doesn't hurt anyone...I don't know man, you gotta be crazy or something.

 

[Equality 7-2521]

yeah well this shit is going on all over the place. just cos its happening to NFL players is nothing special in my books. obviously it will get in the news cos they are famous and got sent controversial hate letters but there are hella poeple (normal joes) copping the same shit.

racism is everywhere. and its all cos of fear.

 

[DJFANTOM]

Originally posted by Ominous
Sometimes I get worried that racism might come back like a fad or something.

Come back? It never left.
This country(usa) was built on it.
It will never go away

 

[o.Prime]

Yeah, lets get rid of the brothas playing football..........Whats left, a bunch of unispired sons of ex-players, coaches ect.

 

[nobodyfamous]

Originally posted by DJFANTOM
Come back? It never left.
This country(usa) was built on it.
It will never go away

according to scarface it was built on washing money too..lol..i just got done watching that

but for real, racisim will never completly go away, some people may think that its gone but its not. its not accepted by some people like it use to be so a lot of people keep their feelings and beliefs to themselves. i live in northest GA, i also went to a school in south GA for 2 years, ill tell you right now that its still around. we got people riding around in big trucks with rebal flags flying off the back, there is a kkk grandwizard who had a house like 10 minutes from here..this stuff is still crzy, you just cant assume that everyone person is racist, but you cant be nieve and think that its not happening out there. thats messed up about the nfl situation, they probably even partically metioned black quarterbacks and coaches in those letters, they just didnt release it to the press since there are a lot more these days. but i dont know about you, but when my man vick came back sunday, it made the game so much better! they have the falcons training complex 5 minutes from here..so i might go see them today! even though they like 2-10