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Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett has been spending a lot of time on his YouTube channel lately. On MartyBTV, you can find Bennett rapping about cereal, talking about video games or just dancing around his living room. Most of the videos are pretty funny and just shows a lighter side of an NFL player with his family. But one of Bennett's recent videos with his brother called "Black Olympics" has some Black folks crying foul. In the video, Bennett and his brother Michael, who is on the Seattle Seahawks roster, compete against each other in eating chicken, drinking Kool-Aid, and eating watermelon."Me and all my brothers were in the kitchen and as I looked around, I noticed we were eating every stereotype. We got chicken, kool aid, watermelon, we might as well do a Black Olympics. That's what happened," Bennett told the Michael Irvin show this week. "I don't really think it's offensive. It depends on your sense of humor and how you look at things. We were just having fun and it was very funny for me and my brothers, when I look at it I just can't stop laughing. If someone takes offense, I apologize. That wasn't my intention. It was just us having fun. Some people like what you do and some people don't. Always in life, anything you do, someone is going to have a different opinion than what you have."
FOXSports.com columnist Jason Whitlock already went off on Bennett and the video (even though Whitlock himself was criticized for eating ribs on camera) and CBSSports.com columnist Mike Freeman took the Cowboy to task as well. Check out the video and tell us what you think:
Quibian Salazar-Moreno covers the sports world for Black Voices. He's a freelance journalist based in Denver, Colorado that also covers the video game industry, iPhone games world, the music industry and a bunch of other things. Follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/q_salazar 
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By: Kevin on 7/16/2009 1:40AM
Coach Grey said what needed to be said in response to your rant on athletes.
I laughed my ass off when I read this... "Me and all my brothers were in the kitchen and as I looked around, I noticed we were eating every stereotype. We got chicken, kool aid, watermelon, we might as well do a Black Olympics. That's what happened."
With all the racist name calling going on today its refreshing to see people with the ability to laugh at themselves.
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By: Hugh on 7/16/2009 10:37AM
Well, GSA, if you find a couple of guys having some harmless fun with stereotypes so disturbing, I guess the news about Travis Henry has you contemplating suicide. Don't do it! And, lighten up, okay?
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By: Lorna on 7/16/2009 12:57PM
Everyone wants to take the fun out of life... The guys were just living life on the funny side. But you are right in the article, people have to find something to complain about. Its those people who need to lighten up and laugh more...
Thank you for a funny You Tube video, instead of the sad, mean and crazy one...
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By: Ben Castro on 8/14/2009 8:00AM
You gotta be kidding me man. This is what makes all the players, you cant tell me every player on the steelers are all a bunch of cubicle living stiffs lol. Dude they all play around in the loccer room and stuff like that. Like he said Lighten up and realize he is just playing. I guess your comment goes with the cowboys losing today to the raiders lol. GO COBOYS!!!
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By: Bro. Lee on 7/15/2009 5:29PM
This is what happends when athletes have to much time on their hands. At least he's at home and not out in the streets. When athletes are on the street after midnight,OMG.
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By: Jay Ace on 7/16/2009 11:33AM
OMG...Lets Look At The Stats When PEOPLE Are ON The Streets After Midnight..Please People..Stop Jumping To Overanalyze Things As Racism Or Self-Racism..As Previously Stated, EVERY Race Eats Chicken, Drinks Kool-Aid And Munches Watermelon..Just Because These Guys Are Well Paid Athletes And Had The Cash And Time To Make A Fun Video In Their Kitchen Doesn't Mean Its Racist..I Suppose If I Sat And Counted The Fans in An Oprah Audience And Saw That There Are 8 More Whites Than Blacks, She Is Disregarding The Black Race As Well..Get A Life People..Let People Have Fun..Get YOUR Life Together And Film A Short Clip In Your Kitchen So The World Can Laugh About It..Oops..I Forgot..The Fact That You Guys Aren't Millionaires Means Your Video Will Be Watched By..Approx. 34 People..Deuces
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By: Jam-Master-D on 7/15/2009 6:42PM
Well Good
Go Steelers
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By: Sylvia on 7/15/2009 8:22PM
Typical, another steelers wagon jumper yuck sick of all of you steeler fans!!!
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By: eric on 7/15/2009 7:52PM
This is just plain stupid! When non-black people stereotype us we shout "racism"! But, then we turn right around and reinforce those very same stereotypic images, the same ones that we complain about! The real problem is that these are grown men still acting just like foolish children. When will we ever grow up!
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By: Bob on 7/15/2009 9:25PM
The secret to as long happy life Eric.....don't EVER grow up!
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