Earlier: Race Isn't Purely a Social Construct: Patrick Mahomes vs. Lamar Jackson
This weekend is the NFL semifinals. The two playoff games feature quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes against Lamar Jackson and Brock Purdy vs. Jared Goff.
Mahomes has had the best career (making it at least to the AFC championship game in each of his six seasons as Kansas City’s quarterback), but Jackson has been the hottest NFL QB in recent weeks.
Many people got very, very mad at me for suggesting that Mahomes was lucky enough to inherit from his black dad many of the best black genes for quarterbacking and inherit from his white mom the best white genes for quarterbacking. But I would guess that all NFL semifinalist quarterbacks got lucky at inheriting genes that are good for quarterbacking.
Still, I’m guessing that this is the year the very black Jackson will become the first run-first black QB to win the Super Bowl.
