Jason Whitlock = Best Writer in the buisness

[shawn306]

Great story on the Imus situation

http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html

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[Mavrik]

great article. Sums it up nicely. I've never been a big fan of Jason Whitlock when he contributed to ESPN.com, but he hit the nail on the head with the problem hip hop contributes.

That said, I'm waiting for this thread to be locked. lol.

[rizzock]

Im not reading the artical but fatlock is one of the worst writers there is. He wrote a sports column auggesting Jerry Porter would be traded to the chiefs becuse herms family sent him cookies and in all reality it was Lamont who was getting those cookies him and porter had never met.

[SlugORama99]

Great story on the Imus situation

http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html

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[afosomf]

If only more people thought this way. We'd all be better off. Great stuff. I may not have been a Whitlock fan before this, but he really puts everything in perspective. <In before the lock?>

locked

too political

[NJ]

I've always really liked Whitlocks style. Although his opinions are sometimes from outerspace, this one nails the situation deadnutz.

[Jet Moses]

Whitlock nailed it. I admire his courage, honesty and decency.

In a chillingly related story, this article reveals the dangerous pathology of political correctness, the hijacking of our universities by left wing maniacs indocrinating minds with disturbing screeds of "gender" "class" and "race" and it's toxic impact on us all:

http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/190uejex.asp?pg=1

[Thai Jet]

Im not reading the artical but fatlock is one of the worst writers there is. He wrote a sports column auggesting Jerry Porter would be traded to the chiefs becuse herms family sent him cookies and in all reality it was Lamont who was getting those cookies him and porter had never met.

Maybe you should read the article. Who knows you might learn a lttle something.

[oktaren]

whitlock was on the today show this morning and really had some insightful stuff to say...

[johnny green balls]

definitely whitlock's best article yet. a couple more dozen good ones and maybe i'll actually think positively of him.

ps: this is a brave thing to write. condemning imus isn't brave--not saying he shouldn't be condemned--but the people condemning him are doing what's popular, hence it isn't brave.

[Jetlag]

Yesterday, Newsday's Shaun Powell wrote this:

In retrospect, outraged people shouldn't have united and screamed "blank you" to Don Imus the last few days. No, instead, we should've stuck out our hand and said, "Thank you."

We should feel indebted to a shriveled, unfunny, insensitive frog for being so ignorant that he actually did us all a favor. He woke society the hell up. He grabbed it by the throat, shook hard and ordered us to take a long, critical look at ourselves and the mess we've made and ignored for much too long. He made us examine the culture and the characters we've created for ourselves, our impressionable young people and our future.

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Had Imus not called a bunch of proud and innocent young women "nappy-headed hos," would we be as ashamed of what we see as we are today?

Or, to quote Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer: "Have we really lost our moral fiber?"

And our minds as well?

I'm not sure if the last few days will serve as a watershed moment for this MTV, middle-finger, screw-you generation. Probably not, according to my hunch. A short time from now, the hysteria will turn to vapor, folks will settle back into their routines, somebody will pump up the volume on the latest poison produced by hip-hop while Al Sharpton and the other racial ambulance chasers will find other guilt-ridden white folks to shake for fame and cash. In five minutes, the entire episode of Imus and his strange idea of humor will be older than his hairstyle. Lessons learned will be lessons forgotten.

I wish I were wrong about that last part. But I doubt it, because any minute now, black people will resume calling themselves bitches and hos and the N-word and in the ultimate sign of hypocrisy, neither Rutgers nor anyone else will call a news conference about that.

Because when we really get to the root of the problem, this isn't about Imus. This is about a culture we -- meaning black folks -- created and condoned and packaged for white power brokers to sell and shock jocks like Imus to exploit. Can we talk?

Tell me: Where did an old white guy like Imus learn the word "ho"?

Was that always part of his vocabulary? Or did he borrow it from Jay-Z and Dave Chappelle and Snoop Dogg?

What really disappointed me about that exhausting Rutgers news conference, which was slyly used as a recruiting pitch by Stringer, was the absence of the truth and the lack of backbone and courage. Black women had the perfect opportunity to lash out at their most dangerous oppressors -- black men -- and yet they kept the focus on a white guy.

It was a tremendous letdown for me, personally and professionally. I wanted Stringer, and especially her players, many of whom listen to rap and hip-hop, to take Nelly to task. Or BET. Or MTV. Or the gangsta culture that is suffocating our kids. They had the ear and eye of the nation trained upon them, and yet these women didn't get to the point and the root of the matter. They danced around it, and I guess I should've known better, because black people still refuse to lash out against those black people who are doing harm to us all.

Honestly, I wasn't holding my breath for Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, a pair of phony and self-appointed leaders, because they have their agendas and financial stakes. I was hoping 10 young women, who have nothing on the line, who are members of a young culture, would train their attention to within the race, name names and say enough is enough. But they didn't, and I was crushed.

You should walk around the playground and the elementary and high schools today and listen to how young black people speak to each other, treat each other and tease each other. You'd be ashamed. Next, sample some of their CDs and look at the video games they're playing. And while you're at it, blame yourself for funding this garbage, for allowing your kids to support these companies and for not taking a stand against it or the so-called artists making it happen.

Black folks, for whatever reason, can be their own worst enemy. The last several days, the media had us believe it was Don Imus. But deep down, we know better.

[Jetlag]

Then he turns around and writes this:

Fired? Wow, and to think his bosses didn't even have the foresight to hold off until today, Friday the 13th.

They did, however, take their sweet time dealing with Don Imus, mainly because these pea-headed executives were too busy hiding under their desks while sticking a moist finger in the air, trying to figure out which way the public winds were blowing.

In a saga that has a number of fools and phonies, those who run CBS and MSNBC are among the worst here. If they were genuinely disgusted by Imus calling a group of innocent women "nappy-headed hos," they would've yanked him off the air before the first chuckling response from his staff of studio hyenas. They would've taken his microphone away at the first commercial break and substituted some good, old-fashioned family programming: gangsta rap videos.

Instead, by waiting until the hysteria grew and until Essence Carson, the elegant Rutgers team captain, spoke so eloquently in defense of herself and her teammates, these cowardly executives were trying to protect their cash cow. Which leads to an important issue, as we try to heal from the latest (but certainly not last) racial wound to society:

Why don't we all express an equal amount of outrage when a specific group is verbally assaulted?

The suits at the networks that employed Imus were, I'm assuming, mostly - if not all - white men. And they either were immune to his comments or simply not interested in rousing any defiance toward them.

They probably shrugged and figured it was just Imus being Imus, even though, in this case, he didn't go after his usual targets in government and business. He attacked a group of females who didn't ask for it.

If a group of incensed black journalists and others hadn't thrust the issue into the mainstream the very next day (well before Al Sharpton hustled to the scene for his close-up), Imus still would be employed today, more than a week after he uttered his nonsense.

Yes, a group of black people threw up their arms and yelled from the mountaintop and raised hell until those suits began to shiver and shake and finally generated enough faux outrage themselves to yank Imus off the air.

Well, let's be real here: They were nudged to this decision not by the noisy crowd but by the sponsors, who began to bail.

Curiously, though, only black people were spitting angry. I never got the sense that the vast majority of white folks (and Asians and American Indians and everyone else) were terribly bothered.

Oh, sure, a good many undoubtedly were disturbed, but their voices were whispers by comparison. They weren't on the front line, leading the charge. And that's not right.

What Imus said should've ticked off everyone, not just women or blacks. And until everyone is equally repulsed by racism and insensitivity and ignorance, that trifecta will continue to exist and flourish.

For example: Have you attended a party and heard a disparaging remark about blacks or Jews or women or Eskimos? Well, if you laughed or let the comment pass, then you're just as guilty as the person who made the comment. If you didn't set the bum straight right then and there or walk away, then shame on you.

But this isn't just about white people. It never is, despite what Reverend Al and his ilk would like you to believe.

Example: A few weeks ago, Micheal Ray Richardson, the former Knick, went on an ethnic rampage while coaching in a minor-league game. According to reports, he exchanged insults with a heckler, telling the guy to "shut the bleep up," and then used a gay slur. Then, in an interview with an Albany newspaper, he claimed he had "big-time Jew lawyers" and called Jews "crafty" people.

Now I don't know what's in Richardson's heart, so I'm not calling him racist. He does have children who are being raised Jewish, and his ex-wife is Jewish. But what he said was offensive and ignorant. And not a single black person hollered.

How can that be? As a group very familiar with racial comments and the hurt they cause, how could black people condone such nonsense with their silence?

I didn't see the Rutgers team or our so-called black leaders or civil rights groups throw up their arms. Once again, we can't be inconsistent here. We all must express equal outrage.

Because somewhere, while we're all trying to move forward, there's another fool ready to set us back.

What happened Mr. Powell? Did black leaders come to you after your first article and complain? Why is it alright to essentially call Imus a racist and then say you don't know what was in Mr. Richardson's heart? How do you know what was in Don Imus's "heart"?

Ugh.

[Jet Moses]

67% of all black children born on this day will grow up without a father. But Shaun Powell's primary concern is wagging a finger of indignation at white people for not grabbing pitchforks and joining the mob to lynch Imus.

[shawn306]

Then he turns around and writes this:

What happened Mr. Powell? Did black leaders come to you after your first article and complain? Why is it alright to essentially call Imus a racist and then say you don't know what was in Mr. Richardson's heart? How do you know what was in Don Imus's "heart"?

Ugh.

I think you are misreading the whole gist of the article. Read through this part and I think you get the drift of what he is saying. It is about everyone.

Example: A few weeks ago, Micheal Ray Richardson, the former Knick, went on an ethnic rampage while coaching in a minor-league game. According to reports, he exchanged insults with a heckler, telling the guy to "shut the bleep up," and then used a gay slur. Then, in an interview with an Albany newspaper, he claimed he had "big-time Jew lawyers" and called Jews "crafty" people.

Now I don't know what's in Richardson's heart, so I'm not calling him racist. He does have children who are being raised Jewish, and his ex-wife is Jewish. But what he said was offensive and ignorant. And not a single black person hollered.

How can that be? As a group very familiar with racial comments and the hurt they cause, how could black people condone such nonsense with their silence?

I didn't see the Rutgers team or our so-called black leaders or civil rights groups throw up their arms. Once again, we can't be inconsistent here. We all must express equal outrage.

Because somewhere, while we're all trying to move forward, there's another fool ready to set us back.

[Jet Moses]

Did you guys see the WSJ today?

Here's the timeline:

6:14 AM Wednesday morning, Imus made the "nappy headed Ho" comment.

Ryan Chiachiere, a "researcher" for a left wing watchdog organization, Media Matters for Amerika (my 'k';)), was assigned to monitor Imus that morning. The goon alerted his bosses, who put it on their website's blog, which inevitably was fed to the Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharpton's of the world. They in turn, put the muscle on the liberal geldings who run the Networks, to create a stink.

Imus is an idiot, and he shouldn't have said what he said, but this is a high tech lynching. Nobody would have even heard about this without the efforts to to artificially blow it up out of proportion. The left is after the right wing talk show hosts, and has been for a while. I guess they had to settle for Imus, who's actually left of center. And of course, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton get themselves back in the limelight to remind us how racist America is.

This is a disturbing article about censorship groups aligning themselves with politicians:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=15409&p=1