Despicable. Repugnant. Hateful. Stupid. Divisive. Unthinkable.
There are surely more words to condemn what Cleveland Browns’ running back Isaiah Crowell did, but that’s enough for starters. In a country on edge because of racial violence — against African-American men in Minnesota and Louisiana last week by policemen of different racial heritage and against white cops in a murderous ambush by a demented (President Obama’s word) African-American sniper in Dallas, during a peaceful protest there of the earlier shootings — Crowell chose to do the single most inflammatory and hate-filled thing it was possible to do.