Reply #11: Some of the points you raise are completely valid...

[IrateCitizen]

... however, I still disagree, overall, with the comparison. Perhaps if Moss played an individual sport, as Johnson did, I'd see them more. I just can't get over the things he's done over the past couple of years that have shown that he really has absolutely no team concept in a team game.

If there's one sports star I'd actually compare Johnson to from recent times, it would be Charles Barkley. Barkley was criticized because he refused to fit into a nice, clean category for the portions of White America that embraced the NBA. He was criticized for being an outspoken black man, when you get down to it.

But perhaps the best parallel to Johnson was another boxer -- Muhammed Ali. The manner in which he was persecuted by White America for just being true to who he was and refusing to conform to THEIR standards was eerily parallel to what happened to Johnson.

In any event, thanks for an engaging discussion, even if we don't completely agree.