Robert Griffin III and Authentic Blackness

“Is he a brother or a cornball brother?” asked ESPN’s Rob Parker.  He was questioning the so- called blackness of the Washington Pigskins quarterback, Robert Griffin III, because apparently there are qualifiers, though stereotypical (i.e. You cannot have a socially colored white fiancee and you cannot be Republican.), for authentic blackness. For Parker, RG III […]

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