Is Boxing Great Floyd Mayweather a Racist?

COMMENTARY | I don't usually write on sports topics. I'm not an athlete or even much of a fan, although the occasional game can be riveting. But when the chance arises, I do write on the topic of stupidity, like in the case of Floyd Mayweather showing himself as a racist.

Yeah, I know. To call someone a racist is an ugly comment indeed. But being a racist is even uglier and must be called out in all instances. It's time humanity move on beyond the old myths of any "skin color" being better than any other. All of this ridiculous tribalism has brought us all so much unnecessary pain over the centuries.

On The Daily Take, carried by Yahoo! Sports, author Eric Adelson rightfully nails boxing great Floyd Mayweather for a recent tweet: "Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise." Here's the asinine tweet for those who need to see it with their own eyes.

If "Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise," then could someone please explain the phenomenon that is Shaq? Dennis Rodman? Kobe Bryant? If Floyd Mayweather's thoughtless message to the world is anything other than another drunk tweet, could someone please explain why the very few basketball games I really enjoyed were because of the legend we mere mortals know as Michael Jordan?

While I usually wouldn't give a popcorn-fart what some boxer has to say about anything, it's important for the world to shout Floyd Mayweather down for this ridiculous, hateful comment on the race of Jeremy Lin. Racism is an evil which mankind can no longer afford.

I'll also be boycotting any businesses affiliated with Floyd Mayweather until he retracts his comment and apologizes to Lin - and the rest of us. It's just one of those small things I can do as a consumer. For those who will ask, I also don't take my money to any business ran by anyone Klan affiliated here in the South, either.

As awful as this was to see, I'm still glad Floyd Mayweather did it. Now that he's exposed himself as the hater which he so obviously is, people everywhere can see clearly how anyone, anywhere can have a hate-filled, discriminatory, racist mind-set. But even more importantly, Floyd Mayweather can face his own demons and hopefully get the help he so desperately needs.