Jax Ulbrich Is Who the NFL Is Trying to Make Shedeur Sanders Out to Be
This is about the adultification of Black boys and the infantilization of young white men.
"Why do white boys get the benefit of youth but Black boys do not?
Why are young white men infantilized while young Black men are held to a higher standard?
Why is Jax Ulbrich being given grace while Shedeur Sanders "deserves to be humbled"?
I wrote about this for ContrabandCamp. "
I was going to write this long, beautiful introduction to this column with one of those Michael Harriot-esque parables at the beginning to illustrate the point I want to make, but then I decided, fuck that.
Let’s just get into this bullshit because that’s exactly what it is — some bullshit.
Unless you have been hiding under a …
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