LF: 'Black quarterbacks like to run because they're used to running from the law': Dexter Manley forced to apologize after offensive remark on live TV

Title: 'Black quarterbacks like to run because they're used to running from the law': Dexter Manley forced to apologize after offensive remark on live TV
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... -offensive-remark-live-TV.html
Published: Jan 3, 2016
Author: Chris Pleasance
Post Date: 2016-01-03 07:56:24 by cranky
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Former Washington Redskins defensive end Dexter Manley is no stranger to controversy having once been banned from radio after calling quarterback Troy Aikman a 'queer'.

And now Manley has found himself in hot water for a second time after making yet more ill-judged remarks about quarterbacks.

This time, while speaking on CBS station WUSA about the mobility of black quarterbacks, Manley suggested that they 'like to run because they're probably used to running from the law.'

Former Washington Redskins defensive end Dexter Manley was forced to apologize today after saying that black quarterbacks like to run 'because they're probably used to running from the law' on live TV

While one of the hosts can be heard letting out a shocked laugh off screen, the man sitting next to Manley visibly squirms before casting his eyes downward.

Manley quickly apologized for the remark, however, coming back on air a short time later to say: 'I made a comment earlier about black quarterbacks, and I do apologize.

'I say things that I don’t think about sometimes.'

Manley, known as 'the Secretary of Defense' during his career, played alongside Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to both play in and win a Superbowl while with the Redskins.

In a previous incident, Manley was banned for life from radio station WTOP in Washington DC after branding former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman a 'queer' on live broadcast.

Asked about Aikman's performance in a game against his own former team in October 2013, Manley offered only the one word in response.

It is not the first time that Manley has made offensive comments about quarterbacks while working as a sports analyst - back in 2013 he branded Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman 'a queer' on radio

His fellow radio hosts brought him up up on the remark and asked if he would like to apologize to Aikman, with Manley saying: 'Nope. I'll just say I take that back.'

Manley has a troubled past, having become addicted to cocaine during his playing career in the Seventies and Eighties, serving multiple stints in rehab and time in jail.

The two-time Superbowl champion also spent a period of time living on the streets before managing to get his life back on track and has been sober for nine years.

Manley also began experiencing some short-term memory loss after having brain surgery to remove a cyst back in 2006.

Will he be forced off the air as a white commentator would? Is this remark any less hurtful to black men because it was uttered by another black man?