Richie Incognito Research Paper

Suraj Mathew
Period 1
11/19/13

Richie Incognito Racist Slur on Jonathan Martin

Richie Incognito is an American football guard for the Miami Dolphins who is currently suspended for harassing teammate Jonathan Martin. Richie Incognito and Jonathan martin are close friends and next to each other on field because of positions they play in NFL. Richie
Incognito sent a voicemail to Jonathan Martin which was racist and harassing. Richie Incognito was calling Jonathan Martin names and was making fun of him. Richie Incognito was bullying
Jonathan Martin. Richie Incognito was labeling Jonathan Martin and threatened to kill Jonathan
Martin. After weeks of rumors about the bullying scandal Richie Incognito said he’s not racist and that 's how he and
The language they used to talk to each other was little foul because of the football culture that gets caught up. “It’s just a big misunderstanding, maybe because Jonathan and me talk so different” (Richie Incognito). Richie also said that he never was trying to hurt jonathan martin’s feelings and thinks Jonathan understands it.

Peck would describe this as problem as labeling and stereotyping. Labeling is “Categorizing people and thinking in a simpleminded manner, then making judgments on the basis of the assumptions we attach to these categories” (Peck 7). Richie Incognito was labeling

and making fun of Jonathan Martin by saying n-word. Richie knew he was joking to martin but rest of the world saw it as a racial slur.”It’s something that to the outside world doesn’t seem right, but to my guys, to my teammates, the jokes and pranks and fights were normal inside our locker room”. (Richie Incognito). Richie labeled jonathan martin as a rookie and beginner to NFL and made fun of him about the practice tweet Jonathan tweeted and also by calling him words that are rude and seen as racial