Whitlock getting taken to task on Deadspin

[GunRanger]

Stern gets credit for babysitting black kids and making them somewhat palatable to a small percentage of white corporate America.

That's not controversial hyperbole. The Stern narrative begins with his biographers explaining that Stern took over a league filled with black players of unsavory reputation. The NBA allegedly had a cocaine problem that other sports leagues did not have. The players were high and lazy. TV networks wouldn't even televise the NBA Finals live. Stern allegedly cleaned all this up.

Actually, I've always felt that white sports writers just didn't like how black the NBA became in the 1970s, so they sold the myth that pro basketball players used more cocaine than baseball and football players.

Without enacting any transformative drug policy, Stern magically got NBA players to kick their coke habits and play a more family-friendly brand of ball? Or maybe David Stern became commissioner roughly four years into the Magic Johnson-Larry Bird era and the infusion of a transcendent white superstar and an exciting black foil made white sports writers quit pretending the NBA used more illicit drugs than the NFL.

My money is on the latter. Bird made coverage of the NBA less racist. Bird made the league more televisable. Unless Stern coached Bird at Indiana State, Stern was simply at the right place at the right time.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10377689/whitlock-david-stern-was-bully-got-lucky

I do think there is truth to this

Yep, and don't forget THIS proud spokesman for the Tom-Tom Club, also:

^^ Can't stand either one of those fukk nikkas.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Between you, @Walt @mastermind and the wide range of opinions and personalities/opinions on this site The Coli could be part breeding ground for writers & editors/part money making generator for EVERYONE involved. I'm much more interested about those implications than another 10 page Jason Whitlock shytfest

Breh chill, you ruining my impending schemes n shyt.

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Damn, how you get shytted on in longform.

 

[Originalman]

La

I'll never forgive Whitlock for his remarks on Steve McNair after his death and then guest hosting The Jim Rome show right after Steve's passing and mocking the mans death. It's something thats often forgot or never known, because i dont know if there is audio of it on the net. But he was banned from ever hosting the show again.

Same way i'll never forgive Wilbon for his remarks on Sean Taylor

Thank you for bringing that up. I forgot that the fat c00n said that and Wilbon ain't shyt for that. I will never forget that as well and felt it was ironic when he himself was battling for his life after a stroke some years later. Wilbon and Whitlock will forever be pieces of dog shyt under a shoe to me.

 

[keond]

That was one of the most etherous yet well written articles ive ever seen in my life

It took me about 2 hours to read it with my kids buzzing around, but dude really went in.

Here is the part that stuck with me:

He had a point. The story was about mass-incarceration approach to drug policy and its trickle-down effects on black people and their culture, and for the most part it was a good, holistic examination of an ongoing national scandal. But it was also a Jason Whitlock story. If there's one thing that consistently characterizes Whitlock's writing about race, it's his dumb and fundamentally patronizing insistence that pop culture is the governing force in the lives of black people, not the residue. The causations start running backward. And so, in the Playboy piece, there were the usual allusions to a "culture of self-hatred" and "gangsta rap and the glorification of prison values." Having correctly identified the violent imagery of certain kinds of hip hop as a symptom of the country's bad policy, he turned around and suggested that the music alone had the power to "define black people and black culture as criminal and worthy of mass incarceration."

 

[Originalman]

Ladies and Gentlemen this is what you called fat ass Unicron Whitlock getting MURKED!! I guess Greg Howard must have the touch and the power.

 

[Wargames]

Carlson called Whitlock brave, and it was a compliment that aligned with how Whitlock saw and sees himself. In truth, it was the opposite. Whitlock, in the name of "telling it like it is," was merely flattering the prerogatives of white people who preferred that any discussion of race begin with the pathologies of black people and their culture, not with the de jure and de facto system of oppression in America and its residue. Whitlock was chickenshyt. He took the easy way out. He did what comes easiest to an American, even in the 21st century, even—especially—now in the age of Obama, himself no stranger to this sort of ahistorical rhetoric. He blamed the black folks.

This is amazing

 

[duckbutta]

Man I still remember that Imus shyt...I remember seeing this fat fukk always out defending Imus...blaming the entire thing on hip hop...i remember all them hick ass rednecks at my job loving jason whitlock...

One of the most compelling moments in c00ning history

 

[Still Benefited]

"I don't use the term Sambo lightly. But fukk Jason Whitlock."

This shyt got me dead because he technically didn't call him a sambo,but it feels like he did and threw a "fukk that fat bytch" in just for the hell of it...I gotta use that in real life

 

[#1 pick]

I felt that way when creating Talking Point Free Sports. Some of our articles made Deadspin and Yahoo sports. The talent is there without question. It's all about making it happen.

You
@Walt
and quite a few others are some of our best writers. I really like Walt's story telling skills that he can put to paper.

I love my NBA draft, history, and NFL draft on QB's perspective even if it ain't always perfect.

I love @tremonthustler1 's draft prespective.

@HHR is a baseball head.

We got @mastermind and crew for soccer.

@AVXL on ATL sports.

@Ed MOTHERfukkING G
@Ed MOTHEREFFING G for College Football.

I got a site already. If you want we can use that. I already got a web template. I am good with wordpress. I can give you guys writer credits. Hell, I linked numerous articles from my site to thecoli.

Just make sure you contact me before posting pics because of copyright photo laws.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

id rather be called a ****** than an uncle tom.

But you're hispanic tho.

 

[muzikfrk75]

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

Link breh?

@Walt and @mastermind were writers on my old site.

So get another site.


No, seriously though. Hell, we're posting at a place that was created because we wanted improvement. Let's shock the world again brehs


Oh....and that Whitlock tried to recruit Ta-Nehisi Coates for his site Coates probably gave dude the with the quickness

 

[JahBuhLun]

whats the point of calling another black person a c00n or an uncle tom?

Well, having been someone who was called a sambo to his face on multiple occasions at my previous job by a white lady and then to have a "black" male co worker defend her and criticize my work performance; I know exactly who and why someone should be called a c00n. People need to quit letting these Black men who keep criticizing the culture for white pats on the back off the hook.

 

[JahBuhLun]

these nerds don't know the meaning of either word. Nas told them its cool so they throw it around.

Explain to me what a c00n is. I believe the term Uncle tom has changed from its origin.

 

[Joe Chink]

Most c00ns are guys bitter at blacks because they never fit in with the thugs and got dissed by the women

Projecting a bit?