So Sports Illustrated has an article on Big Ben Roethlisberger and it says that maybe the sexual assault and overall jackass behavior isn't his fault. They are saying that he might have frontal lobe damage from concussions and the motorcycle accident he got in.

I have two major issues with this article. First off, you can't help but wonder why the white guy getting in trouble gets to cop the "It's not me, it's my lobe." defense. Are you saying none of the black players who've acted in socially unacceptable ways have never gotten a concussion? This reminds me of how uppity white parents react to children failing at school - black kids don't pay attention and are lazy and will probably end up on drugs, their sweet young thing has ADD and needs to be prescribed drugs.
The second issue is that nowhere in the article does the author suggest that maybe Big Ben, the guy with a mental problem so bad that it has turned him into a sexual predator, should consider retiring. Not once. Instead it blames his entourage. No, seriously.

"If doctors conclude that Roethlisberger's behavior is the result of brain injury, the treatment, Grafman says, is to manage his environment and keep him out of precarious social situations, a difficult task at which his bodyguards/woman-wranglers fared exceedingly poorly."

This article is absolutely stunning. I don't doubt that the concussions haven't helped Ben any but the guy comes off as your typical pampered athlete. Should we blame Brett Favre's prima donna "Should I stay or should I go?" act on head injuries? Did Michael Strahan agree to look like Jared's boyfriend in Subway commercials because of too many concussions?

This is the new prejudice that permeates too much of the sports media. People don't call out black players as much as they'll make excuses for white ones. A black man that acts like Ben is wrong and needs to take responsibility for his actions; Ben does it because he's got an ailment and it's not his fault. And you know what, it might not even be as obvious as that. It's just that nobody ever seemed to think of writing an article like this (or putting it on the front of CNNSI) when a black guy was getting in trouble.

Just something to consider. But I have had a couple concussions in my life so what do I know?