Is Randy Moss an Uncle Tom?
The Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock says he is. First the Minnesota Vikings wide receiver proclaimed that “I play when I want to play.” Then he followed that up by saying, “I think if fans start talking to me, then I’ll lose sight of being Randy Moss the football player and go to Randy Moss the street person and then to getting in somebody’s (expletive), so I don’t really listen to that.” Whitlock lashes out: “In two quotes, Moss, who recently signed a $75 million contract with an $18 million signing bonus, covered just about every negative stereotype used against the advancement of black men. He portrayed himself as lazy, disloyal, ungrateful, prone toward violence and undignified.” The Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Dan Barreiro says Dennis Green is the mad scientist, and Moss is “the creation that now controls him.” Moreover, Green’s kid-glove treatment of Moss has cost him “some of his most loyal lieutenants in the Vikings locker room. For good. We’re talking about veteran players wh
