I thought the same thing, "Kane is an idiot for these comments." Then I thought about it and realized that he probably faces racism all the time and now he's just expressing his hatred for this in the wrong way.
Don't get me wrong he's an idiot for claiming the media is harder on him for being black. I think if he was white he would have faced MORE scrutiny for his Vegas pic. I truly believe the Canadian media is afraid to criticise a black athlete too much out of fear of sounding racist. Imagine if Nugent Hopkins or Crosby tweeted something like that? They would have faced massive media scrutiny to the point where they would have had to apologize publicly. I think the media didn't know how to respond partly because they were cautious about sounding racist and partly because they were probably thinking "Well....I mean, he's a black guy...isn't he allowed to post pics like this?"
The commodore pic is irrelevant because he's not, nor was he ever, a potential superstar. In other words, no one gives a frack about him.
Kane is a moron for making these comments and he's dead wrong in regards to the twitter picture, if that's even what he was referring to. However unless you're a black star in the NHL you really have no idea what he goes through on a daily basis.
Social media is a very different beast than the conventional media. I don't think the conventional media has ever been racist to him but that doesn't mean social media hasn't. Hell even some of the reaction on this thread can be deemed as racist.
Wayne Simmonds had a banana thrown at him. Joel Ward scores a game 7 OT beauty to knock out the defending champs, instead of praise he receives an N-Bomb assailment. Kevin Weeks claims to receive racist hate mail. We applaud these guys for not showing any emotion over these incidents, so does that make it right to hate the guy that finally does? You really think Kane doesn't face similar BS on and off the ice? I'm sure tweeters from all over have made some very racist comments towards him.
Here's the reality: I think he's an insecure kid that is expressing his emotions in a very wrong way, but I mean he's a kid, and kids do that. Give the guy a break, I'm guessing most of the posters on here are white, which means most of you don't understand what it's like to grow up as a visible minority.
Wow, I must have had more heroine beer than I thought......I never write this much.
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