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Letter: PC reaction to 49er analyst noting player’s color is degrading

Re: “49ers suspend announcer for saying Lamar Jackson’s skin tone gives him advantage” (Mercurynews.com, Dec. 4):

I’m writing about an event that happened a month ago because it has taken me that long to calm down.

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Here’s what happened: The San Francisco 49ers suspended for one day their radio analyst Tim Ryan for saying Baltimore Ravens’ quarterback Lamar Jackson was “really good at that fake … but when you consider his dark skin color with a dark football with a dark uniform, you could not see that thing.”

As an African American that really ticked me — not the comment, but the reaction.