Justin Medlock and being a black kicker

(By Steve Russell - Toronto Star) I felt like I was recreating the fabled Doug Williams Super Bowl Media Day story when I asked Justin Medlock about being a black kicker at minicamp the other day. But jeez, how can you not ask? According to the Kansas City Star, Medlock in 2007 became the NFL's first African-American place-kicking specialist since Gene Mingo in the early 1960s. Donald Igwebuike kicked, but he was from Nigeria. Danny Kight was a kickoff specialist. Reggie Roby and Rodney Williams were punters. Shaun Suisham was...well, he wasn't black. "I don't like to make it a racial thing," said Medlock, a fifth-round draft pick who was signed by the Redskins in February. "I don't know, it's kind of weird. There's been more black kickers, but not at this level." Medlock's father, Robert, was a well-decorated U.S. sprinter, and he grew up playing soccer at Mission