Another time, Hansen told viewers that he was sexually assaulted on a baseball diamond at age 10, but had been too terrified and humiliated to admit it. He pilloried racists in the Dallas suburbs. Last February, his ringing defense of Michael Sam landed him on Ellen. newscast to deliver “Unplugged” commentaries that were equal parts lefty jeremiad, wicked punch line, and wrenching confession. Several years ago, he began using the 10 p.m. “The biggest name, the biggest cat down here.”īut now Hansen was becoming a moral beacon to the world. “From the time he got to Channel 8, he has been the unquestioned alpha dog over everybody and everything,” said Mike Rhyner, a sports radio host for KTCK. “Jesus,” he said.įor more than three decades, Dale Hansen has been a blustering, vainglorious, near-mythic figure in Dallas sportscasting. ![]() You give me hope.’” Hansen considered the magnitude of that sentiment. “She wrote, ‘We always hear about how bad people are from your country. In this case, the Pakistani woman meant the 66-year-old who does sports at 6 and 10 p.m. This woman is just writing about, as she put it, ‘the West.’” “I’m assuming it was from Pakistan,” Hansen said last week. He discovered her email in his work inbox one night. But when I listen to Michael Sam, I do think it’s time to celebrate him now.After being hailed by Ellen DeGeneres, George Takei, and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, it was probably inevitable that sportscaster Dale Hansen would find a fan in Pakistan. I don’t know if that day is here yet, I guess we’re about to find out. We’ve always been able to recognize them, some of us accept them, and I want to believe that there will be a day when we do celebrate them. But I do understand he’s part of mine.Ĭivil rights activist Audre Lorde said: It is not our differences that divide us, it is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences. ![]() I am not always comfortable when a man tells me he’s gay. I never understood how they felt comfortable laying claim to both sides of that argument. So many of the same people who used to make that argument, and many who still do, are the same peolple who say government should stay out of our lives but then want government in our bedrooms. Because we weren’t comfortable with that either. It wasn’t that long ago we were told that black players couldn’t play in our games, because it would be uncomfortable.Īnd even when they finally could, it took several more years before a black man played quarterback. ![]() You love another man – well now you’ve gone too far. Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away, you lie to the police trying to cover up a murder – we’re comfortable with that. Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes – we know they’re welcome. You kill people while driving drunk – that guy is welcome. You beat a women and drag her down a flight of stairs pulling her hair out be the roots – you’re the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. ”It will be uncomfortable, because that’s a man’s world.” Several NFL officials telling Sports Illustrated it WILL hurt him on draft day because a gay player wouldn’t be welcome in a NFL locker room. Michael Sam would be the first openly gay player in the NFL says he knows there will be problems and they’ve already started. The best defensive player in college football’s best conference only a third to fifth round NFL pick? Really? That IS chocking. ”… and then yesterday Missouri’s All American defensive Michael Sam, the SCC:s Defensive Player of the Year and expected to be a third to fifth round pick in the NFL draft, tells the world he’s gay. ![]() Notera hur han använder bilder som väcker känslor, citat som han sedan parafraserar och till sist avslutar med en väl underbyggd uppmaning. Lyssna noga på hur Dale Hansen bygger sin argumentation kring varför det är helt fel att räkna bort Sam i den närliggande draften. Amerikanarna kan sin retorik.įöljande är ett slags försvarstal som stödjer Michael Sam, USA:s första öppet homosexuella fotbollsspelare i NFL. Ser den korta tv-snutten och överväldigas av det perfekt uppbyggda talet. Springer på detta underbara nyhetsklipp i mitt flöde.
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