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In the excerpts from this Salon column, the analogies scream Simmons. Even though the not-so-subtle racism doesn’t.

Shirley, as you may know, made waves with his blog post about Haiti this week. Immediately after his post, ESPN got rid of him.

Now that we’ve got a bit of a backstory, it’s pretty clear where the Haiti column came from. I remember Shirley first as the Iowa State player (yes, Iowa State actually had black players. Shirley played with Kelvin Cato and Jamaal Tinsley, if I remember right) and secondly as the dude who wrote a book about barnstorming throughout Europe.

Instead, he’s now known as the guy who may or may not dislike people who aren’t white. That’s pretty sad, and Shirley’s got no one to blame but himself.