McNabb Calls Criticism "Black on Black Crime"

The Philadephia Inquirer reports:

During the lead-up to the world's biggest sporting extravaganza, the Super Bowl, Donovan McNabb fires off a salvo for the world to hear: Terrell Owens' criticism of his quarterbacking skills last season was "black-on-black crime."

Black-on-black crime? A careless choice of words, given the daily tragedies in Philadelphia and other cities, or intentionally loaded? Or just a figure of speech?

From the streets of Philadelphia, inside barbershops, and all day over the radio airwaves yesterday, people weighed in on McNabb's words. Did he realize what he was saying? Was he hero or victim? Was he speaking out too late?

And all the while they couldn't help but wonder: Will this beef ever end?

"It was definitely a slap in the face for me," McNabb told ESPN in an interview broadcast on Wednesday, speaking for the first time about Owens' November accusation that the Eagles would have been better off with Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre. "As deep as people won't go into it, it was black-on-black crime."

This sort of logic is taught everyday in the oppression studies departments at most of our major universities.