The Big Lead today came across an interesting radio discussion that is absolutely worthy of discussion. It seems for ESPNer and Page 2 columnist Bomani Jones just got his own radio show in North Carolina and is already making quite an impression.

Jones today asked if people are embracing MLB player Josh Hamilton's incredible recovery from drugs because he's white and Christian.

Obviously, there's some debate in the comments about 'did Bomani play the race card?' And Hamilton's father even called in, although he pretty much ignored the race question.

But let's be honest here, of course Hamilton's being embraced more because he's white and Christian. The United States is made up primarily of white, Christian Americans. And if you're a born-again Christian - like Hamilton is - there's a whole base of similar individuals immediately willing to accept you despite your past mistakes.

That's not playing the race card, it's simply true.

The real question for me is, are people jumping on this "amazing story" too fast because Hamilton's white and Christian? Who knows if Hamilton will be able to remain clean. I certainly hope he does, but you never know.

The reason I pose that question is because we've seen other players go through similar problems, and yet they haven't exactly received as warm a welcome back to the game - or as much love from the media. Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden were two African-American players that had scores of drug problems throughout their careers. Now before you say, well they never stopped using drugs, which is more or less true, it's not like they didn't make attempts to fix their lives several times. None of those times were they rewarded with "amazing recovery" stories. Instead they were labeled as dead end kids while they were still playing by SI.

It just seems to me that we're in a race to reward Josh Hamilton, when I'm not sure we should be doing that just yet.

Is it because he's white that we're doing that?

I wouldn't be surprised if it is.