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I know we live in what some would say the best country in the world.  The land of the free and the home of the brave.  A place where everything is equal.  If you think that is true then you’re half right.  Yes this nation gives everybody the chance to do anything that we want to do.  If you were to tell me two years ago that I would be sitting at a computer writing stories everyday about what I love and being apart of the most exciting sports talk shows in the business I would tell you you were crazy.Donovan Mcnabb did an interview last week on HBO’s Real Sports with James Brown where he said that black quarterbacks ae more scrutinized than their white counterparts.  That sent a small quake through the sports world with people being on both sides of the fence.  Some say that they are tired of hearing about race when it comes to sports or just in general.  Some say that Mcnabb is right.  Then people want to bring up just how scrutinized Rex Grossman is.  There is always an exception to the rule.  With Grossman he has not given anyone a reason not to be critical of him with his play.  Two quarterbacks who I thought would have Mcnabb’s back in this situation was Jason Campbell of the Redskins and Vince Young of the Titans. They didn”t.  Campbell saying that we (quarterbacks) are all in the same class and Young saying this was not his fight and that he didn’t see it the same way.  Well fellas you both have a distorted sense of vision right now.  For you everything is hunky dory.  Vince Young has the league clamoring about his God giving ability and Campbell was kinda snuck through the backdoor not having the public spotlight that Young has had.  With that being said the fight for equality is a ongoing battle for us as blacks in positions of power.  Let’s look at the Michael Vick situation.  Now understand that this is coming from a person that believes that Vick did all of this to himself.  In the same sense though the question still has to be asked if it were Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, or Drew Brees would there have been non stop coverage or would it have been swept under the rug.  I’ll let you answer that.  When these two young black men didnot have Mcnabb’s back it felt to me that even in the sports world we are a race of “I’m gonna get mine and you are not gonna mess it up for me”.  That is truly a shame.  Donovan’s not really the kind of guy that stirs up controversy says something like this then you know he really means it.  And just because it may not have happened to you you can’t just dismiss this.   That to me means you are dismissing the guys that came before you.  Those guys include, Willie Thrower(Chicago), Charlie “Choo Choo” Brackins(Green Bay), Marlin Briscoe(Denver), James Harris(L.A. Rams), “Jefferson Street” Joe Gilliam(Pittsburgh), Warren Moon(Houston), Doug Williams(Tampa Bay, Washington), Vince Evans(L.A. Raiders), Randall Cunningham(Philadelphia, Minnesota), if these guys were playing now would they stand by silent?  It is what it is folks and we just have to accept that.  Nothing has changed when I say that I mean from society and from our race in a whole.  We continue to let those who have the courage say how they feel to stand alone.