The defending world champion Seattle Seahawks are having some trouble this year. On the field they've started 3-3 and off the field there's locker room drama.
Bleacher Report's Mike Freeman wrote earlier this week about the ongoing drama in Seattle in the wake of the Percy Harvin trade. Apparently some Seahawks players think quarterback Russell Wilson is too close to the front office, and doesn't always take blame for his mistakes.
"There is also an element of race that needs to be discussed," Freeman wrote. "My feeling on this -- and it's backed up by several interviews with Seahawks players -- is that some of the black players think Wilson isn't black enough."
On Thursday's SportsCenter, Kenny Mayne added this to Freeman's story:
“Two sources one inside the team, one outside of the underachieving 3-3 Seahawks tell me that much of what was written in Mike Freeman’s Bleacher Report column is true,” Mayne said, via PFT. “(Freeman) wrote of turmoil involving since-traded Percy Harvin and the quarterback Russell Wilson that led to a more widespread internal battle pitting those for Russell Wilson and those against.
"And Freeman surmised on his own an issue among some teammates regarding Wilson that quote, 'he isn’t black enough.' A certain expected behavior based on color, apparently. One of the sources told me, quote, I don’t know how he got all that stuff, but it’s pretty much true. We do have a divide. We’re working on it. Thursday that notion was not presented to Wilson, but over and again, questions came about Harvin’s departure.”
These issues are coming out as Seattle is struggling this year. We didn't hear this last year as the Seahawks were on the way to the Super Bowl, it's easier to ignore the problems when you're winning. However the idea that Wilson is not 'black' enough is absolutely stupid. To think that a man is supposed to act a certain way because of the color of his skin is not only stupid but also racist.
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