“One Man’s Opinion” by Gordon Curvey

Sad to say readers but again racism has shown it’s ugly head again in the Northwest and it’s very very sad.

For years I have fought for inclusion of African Americans on local sports radio KJR and 710 ESPN. FYI, currently KJR has zero African American regular hosts and this is flat out wrong!

Recently KJR hosts led by Dave Mahler threw down vicious racism again Panther QB Cam Newton. With Mahler calling Newton “a douche bag” and “a tool” and “a ass” His buddies on KJR former UW Husky and former NFL QB Hugh Millan and morning host Mitch Levy joined in the mistreatment of Cam.

The station even had a poll on it’s website titled “Is Cam Newton A Asshole” Yes readers they really did have this poll.

Now we have Seahawk Kam Chancellor in the news locally and nationally over a incident in Redmond, a surburb of Seattle. Kam and a few of his friends visited a closed gym trying to see if Chancellor wanted to maybe buy the gym to have his very popular fitness bootcamps.

But when Kam tried to ask for information about the gym, a employee called the police. Chancellor did a interview on a local radio station about the incident.

“The first thing the lady did was look at us with an evil, devil look and shooed us off” Kam said. “We were like, can we just get infomation? That’s all. We don’t want to do anything else but get information. We didn’t knock on the door anymore after that. We just waved them like, could you please come here? But they decided to stand 10 to 15 yards away behind a desk, saying they were going to call the cops” Chancellor said.

In the 911 call the employee made to the cops, one of the employees described Chancellor and his friends as “bad news” and looked like “heroin addicts” or homeless kids”. Truth is readers they did not look like none of those things!

To make matters worse, the owner of the gym later said that he believed his employee’s actions were “appropriate” in light of recent break in attempts.

Folks this incident was all about a group of African Americans and one white guy led by big Kam having the police called on them for no reason at all. Flat out. They saw a big black dude and they got scared.

Well I do not think Kam Chancellor will look into having a gym in Redmond anytime soon. I do not blame him! If you think this type of incident would have happened to a group of white folks…you are wrong. This is just a fact.

Comments? gcurvey@yahoo.com