That's the headline on an article at the NY "Daily News". So what would prompt some guy to attack Brown even though Brown has been, as he says,

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From the football field to the big screen to being a voice for the culture as a civil rights activist, Brown has a legacy like none other.

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, and thus in the black community he's an

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icon

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. This despite Brown's spotty legal record which has always been public knowledge, and which the writer sites with glee in order to show Brown is a hero with feet of clay.

So just what caused this reassessment of Brown's record? What is his real crime? Could it be he recently said...

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"I should be criticizing Trump on every level because he does certain things that call for criticism," Brown said Tuesday on the JT The Brick Show on Fox Sports Radio. "But when I look at television I see all these announcers become experts and they're pointing the fingers and they're not doing a doggone thing but pointing their fingers, I find myself really pulling for the president.

“Now, that would make me very unpopular in the black community, very unpopular with a lot of Americans," he continued, "...but I think that there are certain good things that are coming out of this presidency because we've never seen anything like it."

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“I'll never kneel and I will always respect the flag,” he told reporters before the HBO premiere of “Hard Knocks,” that is following his old team, the Cleveland Browns, during training camp.

“I am not going to denigrate my flag and I'm going to stand for the national anthem. I'm fighting with all of my strength to make it a better country, but I don't think that's the issue. Because what is the top side? Are you not going to stand up? This is our country, man.

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So even an black "icon" can be pilloried should he think for himself and escape the Liberal plantation. Then, suddenly, the negative elements in his past become of import, though prior to this they have not mattered. Weird, huh?