Dallas Morning News writer Jean-Jacques Taylor is upset at former A&M football star/current Dallas Cowboy TE Martellus Bennett. Taylor is upset because Tellus uploaded a video of the "Black Olympics" between himself and his brother, Seattle Deahawk DE Michael Bennett to the Internet. Tellus and Michael competed in such events as eating fried chicken, eating watermelon, and drinking Kool-Aid. Worse yet, in Taylor's opinion, Tellus broadcast this event on his Youtube channel, MartyB TV. Taylor thinks Martellus Bennett lacks respect for all of the civil rights leaders who came before him who ended segregation, and all of the anonymous people who participated in the civil rights movement.

But Bennett should have more respect for the sacrifices that tens of thousands of African-Americans have made so that he can do and say whatever foolish things he wants on MartyB TV.

Not just the sacrifices by people we hear about all of the time, such as Rosa Parks, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Chaney, but the anonymous folks who held sit-ins and organized marches and protests so that my kids can splash around freely at Cedar Hill's Uptown Village on a muggy Sunday afternoon with a kaleidoscope of races.

I look at a video like this, and knowing Tellus' penchant for making jokes, see it as Tellus making fun of stereotypes of Black people. I've watched several of Tellus' videos on his Youtube channel, and haven't seen one yet that didn't make me start laughing at some point. I wonder if Taylor took the time to watch "Buy U A Drink". I couldn't make it through thirty seconds of the video, I was laughing so hard. This is why Tellus makes these videos; because he likes attention, and he likes making people laugh. Martellus just happens to be an incredibly talented athlete who is also blessed with a superior wit, and he uses it to make people laugh.

Taylor says he's sensitive about the civil rights movement because his parents told him about the struggle:

I'm sensitive to the issue because my parents grew up in Nashville, Tenn., during the height of the civil rights movement. I heard stories about water fountains marked "white" and "colored." I heard stories about movie theaters with segregated sections.

To me, the civil rights movement is real ­ not something that happened 100 years ago, seen today only on black-and-white images inside a dusty picture frame on a fireplace mantle. To me, the civil rights movement is more than a PBS special or an HBO documentary.

To me, it's about real people.

Well, Jean-Jacques, my mother marched with Rev. Martin Luther King. She was in Memphis, TN the day he was assassinated. She wasn't just a spectator in the movement, she was an active participant. If I want to know about the civil rights movement, I don't need to go watch a documentary on HBO or a PBS special, I just need to ask my mother to tell me another story. If your parents' stories give you the right to criticize Martellus Bennett and call him disrespectful, I will say my mother's past gives me the right to say this to you: Lighten up. This isn't worth getting upset about, because this isn't a racial issue. This is two grown men fooling around on a video camera, and having fun.

If you want to find an issue to write about, continue championing Michael Vick's right to return to the NFL, because MartyB TV isn't for you. You lack the sense of humor needed to view it, and you take yourself too seriously. Worse yet, you are increasing the viewership of this video you find so offensive, because your column has caused more people to go looking for it.

Go find some other issue to be mock-outraged about, because MartyB TV is too low-brow for your pretentious sensibilities.