Jason Whitlock: The Explication 2.0

[Walt]

The celebrated, talented and atheist writer/thinker Ta-Nehisi Coates is their symbolic Gawd.

This dude is amazing. He's clumsily trying to take a religious angle? Jesus. And that "gawd" is a shot at Bomani for sure.

 

[Walt]

The hostile, highly confrontational, “this ain’t your grandmama’s Civil Rights Movement” Black Lives Matter openly mocks Martin Luther King Jr.’s tactics and all but ignores Malcolm X’s spiritual journey. Black culture is being redefined as atheist and liberal. It has never been that.

This dude presents no analysis man. This dude has carved out a 20 year career speaking in general and empty terms about major issues and boiling them down to small, simplistic, disgestible nuggets. This shyt is so warped.

 

[Pesci]

The celebrated, talented and atheist writer/thinker Ta-Nehisi Coates is their symbolic Gawd.

This dude is amazing. He's clumsily trying to take a religious angle? Jesus. And that "gawd" is a shot at Bomani for sure.

You know he stewed over that blog entry for about a month

 

[Rekkapryde]

Ahhh.....So Whitlock will now have a weekly spot being the "that type of black" opinion on Cowherd's show?


LOL

Never fails... Fatlock does it again

 

[NYC Rebel]

i guess i cherry pick everyone, then.

NOPE!!! There are folks in this world he carry a bit more integrity and principles that one would give a lil leeway. But you want to tell me that this "Swiper no swiping!!! Swiper no swiping!!" ass niqqa to view him in the same manner as I would a John Amos type cat?

Nah.... he undermines himself with stupid shyt like that column where he rips serena. but, i see that in everyone i read and watch.

i sat and watched jamilah lemieux shyt on a black republican simply for being black AND republican, and then act like she was dying when her employer (ebony mag) forced her to apologize to the guy, like she did nothing wrong.

i watched melissa harris perry do the same thing after partying on romney's adopted black grandkid and then pull her hands back, like "it wasn't me, it was the guests. we was just playing!" (uh huh...so was don imus...everybody be JUST PLAYING...and everybody got a right to outrage-flop, too)

Good for you. I don't care for MHP Obama dikk riding or any of those names. I'm talking about THIS CLOWN who does a disservice to the black collective writing and talking about BS.

 

[Walt]

I really feel like posting the Black Opinions Matter piece I recently wrote that got passed from editor to editor before getting stuck on the senior writer/editors desk, never to surface again. The bottom line is institutions like ESPN are fundamentally racist, and they have no regard for black discourse or black life beyond what athletes are able to do between the lines. The notion of a series of white editors vetting my piece is a great analogy for the absurdity of Whitlock's failed "black grantland" and the way race is handled at these sports publications and networks in general. If the place I write for wanted someone to do vetting of my piece, they'd actually have me employed in that role. Imagine a white guy from Greenwich Connecticut writing a piece about mainstream representations of white discourse being our of step with reality and 5 nikkas named Ty, Mitch, JoJo, Slick, and Ronnie deciding "we need to really think on this one together, because we ain't sure we agree." And this is the daily operation. It's no mistake Whitlock and SAS have been getting recycled for years and years and year, regardless of missteps and egregiously offensive moments. They reinforce the notions of the audience more often than not.

 

[Basaglia]

NOPE!!! There are folks in this world he carry a bit more integrity and principles that one would give a lil leeway. But you want to tell me that this "Swiper no swiping!!! Swiper no swiping!!" ass niqqa to view him in the same manner as I would a John Amos type cat?
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Yeah, I guess I don't hold everyone to the standard you do, because, AGAIN, I see inconsistency and a lack of "integrity" from a lot of people I read and watch.

For example, in NOT WHITLOCK NON-INTEGRITY NEWS, I've watched Bomani go in on Pitino/Louisville and Boeheim/Cuse over the last 18 months, all while acting like there's no ACTIVE investigation of Roy and UNC.

But, I know what it's like to just not like someone and have laser like focus on what they do wrong and ignoring the same from everyone else. Clearly, I am aware of my bias, because I'll tell you with a straight face that Michael Jordan's wardrobe does more to hurt the image of the NBA than Isiah's sexual harrassment case ever did.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Yeah, I guess I don't hold everyone to the standard you do,

I didn't ask you to! Remember...you responded to my feelings on this clown. You're free to hold whomever you want to whatever standard you so choose. Good for YOU....for me.....NOPE!!

 

[Pitfalls0117]

I really feel like posting the Black Opinions Matter piece I recently wrote that got passed from editor to editor before getting stuck on the senior writer/editors desk, never to surface again. The bottom line is institutions like ESPN are fundamentally racist, and they have no regard for black discourse or black life beyond what athletes are able to do between the lines. The notion of a series of white editors vetting my piece is a great analogy for the absurdity of Whitlock's failed "black grantland" and the way race is handled at these sports publications and networks in general. If the place I write for wanted someone to do vetting of my piece, they'd actually have me employed in that role. Imagine a white guy from Greenwich Connecticut writing a piece about mainstream representations of white discourse being our of step with reality and 5 nikkas named Ty, Mitch, JoJo, Slick, and Ronnie deciding "we need to really think on this one together, because we ain't sure we agree." And this is the daily operation. It's no mistake Whitlock and SAS have been getting recycled for years and years and year, regardless of missteps and egregiously offensive moments. They reinforce the notions of the audience more often than not.

JBO? I'd be interested to read this but I understand if you're contractually obligated to keep it under wraps

 

[Basaglia]

I didn't ask you to! Remember...you responded to my feelings on this clown. You're free to hold whomever you want to whatever standard you so choose. Good for YOU....for me.....NOPE!!

the opposite happened. out.

 

[Walt]

JBO? I'd be interested to read this but I understand if you're contractually obligated to keep it under wraps

The contractual obligations are unclear to me as far as this goes. But it says everything that a well thought out 5 page column about the decline in black activism among athletes and how their allegiance to their brands and their carefully crafted marketable images has rendered them self-serving and neutered gets carefully debated for a week then shafted while any old buffoon can say some shyt on ESPN about blacks needing to behave better and no one will hesitate to blast those comments or columns out, whether from a white or black person.

 

[I.V.]

I really feel like posting the Black Opinions Matter piece I recently wrote that got passed from editor to editor before getting stuck on the senior writer/editors desk, never to surface again. The bottom line is institutions like ESPN are fundamentally racist, and they have no regard for black discourse or black life beyond what athletes are able to do between the lines. The notion of a series of white editors vetting my piece is a great analogy for the absurdity of Whitlock's failed "black grantland" and the way race is handled at these sports publications and networks in general. If the place I write for wanted someone to do vetting of my piece, they'd actually have me employed in that role. Imagine a white guy from Greenwich Connecticut writing a piece about mainstream representations of white discourse being our of step with reality and 5 nikkas named Ty, Mitch, JoJo, Slick, and Ronnie deciding "we need to really think on this one together, because we ain't sure we agree." And this is the daily operation. It's no mistake Whitlock and SAS have been getting recycled for years and years and year, regardless of missteps and egregiously offensive moments. They reinforce the notions of the audience more often than not.

I'll just leave it at that.

On the OTHER hand, who gives a fukk what Whitlock says, really? This dude has shown over and over that he lacks the basic insight to have his opinion counted as something of note. He contradicts himself, often in the same sentence. He tells black people how to think, scolds them for letting others tell them how to think, and then says he doesn't tell people how to think, because that's not how it works. He's still calling "The Wire" a fictional television series "journalism" - reading this screed is like watching a gummi bear truck collide with with truck full of live-tap dancers... no, it doesn't make sense, but it's easy to understand why people wouldn't be able to look away.

 

[JetFueledThoughts]

nearly done reading this and i'll say this: anyone who throws out everything he's saying simply because it's him is way too committed to taking sides when there are no actual sides to take.

This. A lot of the stuff he said about the neo liberal journalists and the BLM movement was spot on.

 

[Walt]

I'll just leave it at that.

On the OTHER hand, who gives a fukk what Whitlock says, really? This dude has shown over and over that he lacks the basic insight to have his opinion counted as something of note. He contradicts himself, often in the same sentence. He tells black people how to think, scolds them for letting others tell them how to think, and then says he doesn't tell people how to think, because that's not how it works. He's still calling "The Wire" a fictional television series "journalism" - reading this screed is like watching a gummi bear truck collide with with truck full of live-tap dancers... no, it doesn't make sense, but it's easy to understand why people wouldn't be able to look away.

Man... shyt really had me fukked up. But, you know,

Whitlock is seriously no different from the run-of-the-mill rockhead from my block where I grew up, dog. David Simon has gone into very clear details about what the theme of The Wire are: the devaluation of individual worth, the post-industrial capitalism that eats its own, the exaggeration of income disparity and life experience that has created two very separate and unequal Americas, the failure of the war on drugs, the subsequent decline in quality of policing, the lack of options for a population left behind in our consumer culture... and Whitlock simplified the theme, time and gain, to "the threat to black life is a new black KKK of thugs." Dude has a pre-set agenda no matter what the facts of any matter, and he retrofits shyt to fit that agenda. He's a straight up moron. It kills me.

 

[Basaglia]

This. A lot of the stuff he said about the neo liberal journalists and the BLM movement was spot on.

people can get past their emotions and allegiances to concede anything about them tho. sure, they're all GREAT.