In this article, Albom discussed how the race card is manipulated. In this case it was Lebron James, who was largely criticized for his free agency jump to Miami. Additional heat was brought upon James for broadcasting his decision nationally in the humble words, " I'm gonna take my talents to South Beach." James reacted to the criticism with "Its always you know, a race factor." Thus reveals Albom point when faced with controversy, its easy to make the race the offender.
I agree with Albom article. Consider our former mayor Kwame when he was investigated he as well used race as the reason. Also O.J Simpson pulled the race card when in trouble too. There is an obvious recurrence within our society today. These athletes struggled to come to grips with the reality, they had done wrong. In desperate effort to slide the blame off they turn to race.
Albom made in strong argument in this point "By the way, there was a similar vitriol toward Brett Farve after he left Green Bay. Ego. Money. Why didn't CNN ask Farve if it was about race." Perfect example. Lebron left Clevland for a better contract just as Farve had. But unlike Lebron, Farve was not able to fend off controversy by using race.
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