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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: DRYBONES47 on 8/13/2009 7:20PM
I don't understand what wrong with MB and his brother in this video. I enjoyed the sense of humor the young men have. Eating chicken, drinking kool-aid, and eating watermelon are foods that everyone at one time or another have enjoyed. At most family reunion it is a good chance you will have a watermelon eating contest. I would rather see them have fun, and enjoying life in this matter then to be reading about them in media. I am lifelong Dallas Cowboy Fans. This is our year to go to the Superbowl because we are the best team in the NFL.
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By: maryk on 8/13/2009 11:09PM
i am a football fan and this is a stereotype that white people have been putting on blacks for years to do things in the privacy of your own home is one thing but when you let everyone else see this is how we characterize our selves is one thing but we as blacks will always have issues towards white racistjokes we as blacks will never get over the harted that whites still have to this day this is why i hate to see a black man with a white woman you pproblably will not see too many black women with white men because of our history and it is not a good history.
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