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Skip Bayless: White Redskins fans root for Kirk Cousins over Robert Griffin III

by theGrio | August 21, 2012 at 2:30 PM
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The Huffington Post reports Skip Bayless said on ESPN that the majority white Redskin fans will support Kirk Cousins over his African-American teammate Robert Griffin III for quarterback because “it’s just human nature.” He argues that this “dynamic” will “stunt his growth in the NFL.”

In what seemed an attempt to hype up a nascent, and perhaps nonexistent, quarterback controversy on the Washington Redskins, Skip Bayless of ESPN made himself the story during an episode of “First Take” on Monday morning. Perhaps best known for lauding Tim Tebow and tearing down LeBron James, Bayless contended that it is human nature for white fans to support a white athlete over a black athlete if given a choice.

“I’m going to throw it out there. You also have the black-white dynamic and the majority of Redskins fans are white. And it’s just human nature, if you’re white to root for the white guy,” Bayless contended. “It just happens in sports. Just like the black community will root for the black quarterback. I’m for the black guy. I’m just saying, I don’t like the dynamic for RG3. It could stunt his growth in the NFL.”

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