Clumsy attempt at correctness

The phenomenon called "political correctness" is getting more tiresome each day. It has also become something for people who don't have the courage to "tell it like it is" to hide behind.

Recent remarks by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell regarding Rush Limbaugh's interest in investing in a NFL team is a prime example. The owners can accept/reject any new applicants for ownership, for whatever reason they feel appropriate. Goodell would have been wise to say exactly that and get off the stage, but he chose to criticize Limbaugh.

That smacks of an attempt to appease the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. These two are well aware that approximately 70 percent of NFL players are black, and they take advantage of that situation.

They lied about Limbaugh, accusing him of remarks he never made, in order to keep themselves relevant, and all the while end up doing more harm to the attempts at eliminating prejudices than they do good.

I'm not sticking up for Limbaugh - he can take care of himself. Whether one admires him or loathes him is not the issue. Goodell adding credence to Jackson and Sharpton, in a clumsy attempt at the dreaded political correctness, is what's disturbing. We will never get to where we need to be as a society until this kind of stuff stops.

GENE LEMON
Yuma