Of course it is, everything is racist.

Via Mediaite:

The Nation’s sports blogger Dave Zirin appeared on MSNBC with Tamron Hall on Thursday to discuss the measures the National Football League is taking to ensure prevent the league from signing potentially violent players like Aaron Hernandez in the future. Hernandez is currently facing charges of first-degree murder in the death of a 27-year-old semi-pro football player. Zirin said that the NFL’s plan to inspect players for gang tattoos will probably, and rightly, be construed as a racist policy improperly targeting African-American players. […]

“This is going to be tagged for very good reason as racist, and race — certainly – motivated,” he continued. “The only reason for this is an overreaction after what took place with Aaron Hernandez.”