an Opinion by Mike Jackson
Despite what Joe Mixon thinks or what Jeff Ebby left behind him at Baylor…there will be no redemption or forgiveness for Cale Gundy at OU.
As in none.
It doesn’t matter if black people call each other this name or write it in song lyrics to the point of inducing vomit.
White people cannot use the word nigger in front of a black person circa 2020 in America.
Cale Gundy said the word…maybe even three times.
In pragmatic retrospect…first year head coach Brent Venables had no choice. He made the right decision even as tough as it is for Cale Gundy’s career at the relatively young age of fifty.
With the way we in America forget the 48 hour news cycle in America…two weeks from now when the college football season begins Cale Gundy will be a foonote in University of Oklahoma football.
In this country… half of the people think it’s okay to hang a sitting vice-president–so I’m guessing somewhere out there in this football crazed country…Cale Gundy will find a landing spot in a year or so.
Do I think Cale Gundy is a malicious racist?
No way.
Racism in America is generationally systemic. Some fathers use the word and some sons listen to the context in which the word is used and copy their fathers.
My father thankfully didn’t use the word around me or my brother. We’ve never used the word. Funny how that works.
I’m guessing both Cale and Mike Gundy heard the word growing up. That’s just a gut guess on my part. I’m guessig they both heard the word used by a male relative in an ignorant manner and out of context. Nobody sat them down and corrected them until two years ago when Mike Gundy was almost fired at O State as well.
It really is sad when you sit down and think about it.
It’s sad to think half of America thinks this word is repugnant, while the other half thinks it’s okay.
I guess the moral of the story for Cale Gundy is he shouldn’t ever use the word again even if he’s residing in a state which Trump will probably carry by a 72% plurality in 2024 if he isn’t in federal prison on election day.
I’d circle Southern Miss as a possible landing spot for Cale Gundy.