Whitlock getting taken to task on Deadspin

[mastermind]

Whitlock isn't a Tom; he's a low-information guy, infinitely suggestible, learning on the fly, joining in on a conversation in a language he has no interest in learning.

I actually agree with this.

He had that debate with Killa Mike last year on his podcast, and I came to this conclusion. He is just an idiot who thinks he knows more than he does.

 

[Steezy]

 

[HookersandIceCream]

He ate ribs on PTI


I was like who is this clown

 

[Jayou Ayen]

Whitlock got that work.



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[GatorStaceyAdams]

My gawd did he tear into this man's soul



Straight

 

[NYC Rebel]

But it pays so well

 

[GunRanger]

Didnt know about the interview in '06

Q: What about Scoop? Based on the way you bytch-slapped him in the KC Star, you couldn’t have liked working with him.

We didn�t work together. But, yeah, there’s a big dropoff from being associated with Ralph, Hunter and Bill than being linked to someone doing a bad Nat X impersonation. It pissed me off that the dude tried to call himself the next Ralph Wiley and stated some [bleep] about carrying Ralph’s legacy. Ralph was one of my best friends. I hate to go all Lloyd Bentsen, but Scoop Jackson is no Ralph Wiley. Ralph was a grown-ass man who didn’t bojangle for anybody. Scoop is a clown. And the publishing of his fake ghetto posturing is an insult to black intelligence, and it interferes with intelligent discussion of important racial issues. Scoop showed up on the scene and all of a sudden I’m getting e-mails from readers connecting what I write to Scoop. And his stuff is being presented like grown folks should take it seriously. Please. I guess I’ll go Bill Cosby on you, but it’s about time we as black people quit letting Flavor Flav and the rest of these clowns bojangle for dollars. There’s going to be a new civil-rights movement among black people and the people bojangling for dollars are going to be put in check.

Q: A Civil Rights movement? In 2006?

Dude, it’s in the air. Black people are tired of letting idiots define who we are. It’s dangerous. I grew up loving hip hop music. But the [bleep] is way out of hand now. Flavor Flav went from fighting the power with Chuck D to a minstrel show on VH1. You have all of these young rap idiots putting out negative images about black men and black women, and it’s on us to stop it and say enough is a enough. It’s not on white people. And it’s not on old black people like Cosby and Oprah. We have to police our own. W.E.B. Dubois talked about the talented 10 percent leading the black masses. We’re letting the Ignorant 5 lead us straight to hell. The Ignorant 5 are telling white folks, “Yeah, this is how we really is. Let me bojangle for ya, boss. You say step and I’ll show ya I can fetch.” And what�s even more dangerous, the Ignorant 5 are telling black kids, �It�s cool to be locked up. It makes a man out of you. And don�t embrace education. Dealing dope and playing basketball are better career choices.� The Ignorant 5 is the new KKK and twice as deadly. That�s why you don�t hear �bout the KKK anymore. The Klan is just sitting back letting 50 Cent and all the other bojanglers do all the heavy lifting.

I hate Scoop too, but more so because his lip annoys the hell out of me. So glad ESPN stopped trying to make him happen

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I actually agree with this.

He had that debate with Killa Mike last year on his podcast, and I came to this conclusion. He is just an idiot who thinks he knows more than he does.

I still have that podcast saved as a fave. The greatest dressing down I've ever heard

 

[NYC Rebel]

Problem with Whitlock is that he's endemic of what we see on television nowadays. Whitlock...O'Reilly and others....they carry the belief that they can criticize and repair people by attacking popular culture.

And people with no insight, understanding or genuine intellectual curiosity on the depths of culture tend to agree with them because they're too intellectually lazy to delve deeper, so they're nourished by the simplicity these pop culture attackers address with their surface level solutions.

It's an unbelievably profitable enterprise.

 

[Brozay]

I forgot how despicable dude was in the aftermath of the Imus situation

Good lord ...

 

[3Rivers]

"Look," one writer said to me. "I don't use the term Sambo lightly. But fukk Jason Whitlock." Deadspin da gawd

 

[AVXL]

"I would love if a site full of black people was writing about everything, writing about stuff that is not a pointedly black, race issue," he said. "That's new. That's not, 'Oh, this is a black site, black people.' It's not, 'Let's talk about rap. Let's talk about racial profiling.'

"Black people are interested in everything," he went on, laughing. "Real talk, we are so dynamic. We're interested in so much stuff."

I want a site that acknowledges that, one that offers a platform and the resources for black editors and black journalists to stretch out and exercise their own agency. I want a site that helps change the conditions that create and nurture and reward hacks like Whitlock. I want Whitlock to succeed so that one day, maybe, there will be no more Whitlocks.

The Coli?

My biggest takeaway from this article (besides Whitlock being a fat, c00ning POS who blames rap music & Black people for black America's issues) is how much potential blogs and forum have with the level of writing and creativity we see/read every day

The fact a "Black Grantland" COULD exist has to have some real potential benefits for a place like The Coli don't you think? @cook @Brooklynzson

 

[NYC Rebel]

The Coli?

My biggest takeaway from this article (besides Whitlock being a fat, c00ning POS who blames rap music & Black people for black America's issues) is how much potential blogs and forum have with the level of writing and creativity we see/read every day

The fact a "Black Grantland" COULD exist has to have some real potential benefits for a place like The Coli don't you think? @cook @Brooklynzson

I had that site for a few years....

Marriage killed it.

 

[Brozay]

Fatlock's response:

 

[godkiller]

Whitlock has his moments. He didn't deserve this hackjob. I agree with what he says here and will debate anyone about it:

"Dude, it’s in the air. Black people are tired of letting idiots define who we are. It’s dangerous. I grew up loving hip hop music. But the [bleep] is way out of hand now. Flavor Flav went from fighting the power with Chuck D to a minstrel show on VH1. You have all of these young rap idiots putting out negative images about black men and black women, and it’s on us to stop it and say enough is a enough. It’s not on white people. And it’s not on old black people like Cosby and Oprah. We have to police our own. W.E.B. Dubois talked about the talented 10 percent leading the black masses. We’re letting the Ignorant 5 lead us straight to hell. The Ignorant 5 are telling white folks, “Yeah, this is how we really is. Let me bojangle for ya, boss. You say step and I’ll show ya I can fetch.” And what�s even more dangerous, the Ignorant 5 are telling black kids, �It�s cool to be locked up. It makes a man out of you. And don�t embrace education. Dealing dope and playing basketball are better career choices.� The Ignorant 5 is the new KKK and twice as deadly. That�s why you don�t hear �bout the KKK anymore. The Klan is just sitting back letting 50 Cent and all the other bojanglers do all the heavy lifting."

This is the truth, not Tom-ism^