Richard Sherman on 'thug': "it's the accepted way of calling somebody the N-word nowadays."

[nomorenomore08]

58. Some may use it more innocuously. But for a lot of white Americans, they know exactly what they're

doing when they call someone - nearly always a younger black man - a "thug." Hell, some went so far as to call Trayvon Martin - a good student with no criminal record and also, if we're being honest, almost certainly a victim of manslaughter or second-degree murder - a "thug" and "budding criminal" who (according to their pasty white asses) was better off dead.

Hell, look at nearly any news article these days dealing with the bad behavior of someone who happens to be black. Rather than saying okay, assholes come in all colors, commenters inevitably zero in on the skin color of the offender, calling him/her a thug and worse. There are even those who go so far as to invoke lynching and/or ethnic cleansing, sometimes adding a "joke" about reducing the welfare rolls in the process.

So don't try to tell me "thug" is just an innocent descriptor. That won't fly with anybody who's paying attention.