What’s worse: dredging up an unpleasant part of the past, or pretending that it doesn’t exist?
Anna Burns Welker, the wife of New England Patriots receiver Wes Welker, has come under a torrent of criticism for writing a bitter Facebook post after the Patriots loss on Sunday that cited the troubled past of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis. And without doubt, her post, which referenced past criminal charges against Lewis, struck many fans as a cheap shot at a time when a more gracious sentiment would have been more appropriate. She has sensibly apologized for it.
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She acted like a spoiled brat and a sore loser. Fair to say if Ray Lewis shot someone or knew the people he was with were going to shoot someone he'd be in prison. As to the four marriages and the six children - would she even have raised this if Lewis were a white guy - I doubt it.
"Fair to say if Ray Lewis shot someone or knew the people he was with were going to shoot someone he'd be in prison." Apparently you are in the "OJ was innocent" camp. I am not.
Wow. Talk about denial. It seems like YOU are the one more concerned about race. Who cares what race he is? Well that would be YOU apparently. I think YOU are racist and do a diservice to everyone...especially blacks...by turning this into a race question. Are you saying black men are more likely to have multiple children by multiple women? And that this question is not valid to raise? Or his participation in that murder years ago...or his refusal to cooperate in the prosecution of his posse in that case? If this guy wishes to hold himself up as a righteous, religious Christian, he should just as surely answer to his own trangressions. Or is this behavior acceptable "Christian" behavior?
So her timing was bad? Is that what this is all about. Please. She had the right to say it. The media spends so much time venerating the guy they lose sight that just because he plays football it doesn't exempt him or preclude her from communicating what was, to say the least, that Lewis has an unscrupulous past. Good for her for reminding everyone about him and calling him out.
Ray Lewis is a thug and should have been sent to prison with the rest of his group that night (tossed his bloody clothes, obstructed the investigation, etc.). She was right to call him out and, as bumpyt states, it is obscene to see him placed on a pedestal by the likes of ESPN, with whom they have a vested interest. It has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with character.