Clout

What you talk about at the dinner table at the house will eventually make it to the school. Children and adults represent what they learn and do at home. You can't be a heathen all the week and be a saint on the weekend. Rob Parker's comments about Robert Griffin's blackness can be heard on a daily basis regarding other less well known blacks. People like Stephen Smith are nothing more than hypocrites.  They're throwing Parker under the bus. In a different setting they would have been giving him high fives and slapping him on the back. The rhetoric doesn't sound so good in mixed company.

Rob Parker is wondering what in the world just happened. Last I heard he had been suspended indefinitely. He probably just thought he was being controversial. Some things are left unsaid for a reason. He used all the catch phrases that usually ignite blacks.  He mentioned his white woman, Republicans and even Griffin's hair. None of them worked though.  Robert Griffin appeals to a different kind of fan. Not just those who followed Doug Williams. He wants his career to last a long time. There is a big difference in BET and ESPN. Parker got caught up in the mix.  Though it may be true or at least widely accepted by most people watching. You don't have the clout to point it out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/rob-parker-robert-griffin-race-first-take_n_2295726.html