Nothing like an innocuous American sports classic to reveal an ugly layer of racism. After Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman post-game victory rant rubbed some people the wrong way, the Internet exploded in racial epithets directed towards him. Tweets included calling him a "jungle monkey" and "typical gorilla n----r." Richards responded in a post on MMQB "people find it easy to take shots on Twitter, and to use racial slurs and bullying language far worse than what you’ll see from me. It’s sad and somewhat unbelievable to me that the world is still this way, but it is. I can handle it."
