Tweet
:clapback:
Jesse Jackson's "attention grab" ripped by black columnist - Game On!: Covering the Latest Sports News
Jason Whitlock has carved out a place as one of America's most outspoken sports columnists. An African-American, Whitlock seldom treads lightly on the topic of racism, and today he stomps all over Jesse Jackson for playing the race card with his criticisms of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Daniel Gilbert.
Jackson, as we reported early today, said this about Gilbert's rip job of LeBron James: "His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave."
Responds Whitlock, writing for Fox Sports:
Jesse has a constituency, a passionate group of idiots who believe the best way to combat white-wing political bigots such as Limbaugh and Hannity is with black-wing political bigotry . . .
Yes, this is an attention grab by Rev. Jackson. He heard about ESPN's impressive ratings for The Decision and, like a mafia don, wants to wet his beak. Why let Jim Gray and ESPN executives have all the fun exploiting LeBron's naivete? . . .
Yep, it's the card. LeBron James and his kiddie handlers screwed up, staging an image-damaging public-relations disaster, and now some African-Americans want to change the subject by changing the argument.
NBA owners and their $100-million contracts are slave owners and King James is Kunta Kinte escaping on the Underground Railroad to Miami's Tootsie's Cabaret, where he'll make it rain.
It's stupid. Dan Gilbert's rant was certainly immature, but it wasn't remotely racist. He sounded like a scorned lover, a guy who gave his heart to a relationship and found out on national TV that the alleged love of his life didn't care about him at all.
Gilbert vented. I give James credit for not responding.
Jackson and other African-Americans need to follow LeBron's lead. We look foolish. We look hypocritical. We come across like people who have little genuine interest in seeing racial prejudice disappear and more like people who just want it to swing in our favor.
Rather than deal with the callous and classless way James departed his home state, some of us are trying to make this about race. It's not.
Jesse Jackson's "attention grab" ripped by black columnist - Game On!: Covering the Latest Sports News
Jason Whitlock has carved out a place as one of America's most outspoken sports columnists. An African-American, Whitlock seldom treads lightly on the topic of racism, and today he stomps all over Jesse Jackson for playing the race card with his criticisms of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Daniel Gilbert.
Jackson, as we reported early today, said this about Gilbert's rip job of LeBron James: "His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave."
Responds Whitlock, writing for Fox Sports:
Jesse has a constituency, a passionate group of idiots who believe the best way to combat white-wing political bigots such as Limbaugh and Hannity is with black-wing political bigotry . . .
Yes, this is an attention grab by Rev. Jackson. He heard about ESPN's impressive ratings for The Decision and, like a mafia don, wants to wet his beak. Why let Jim Gray and ESPN executives have all the fun exploiting LeBron's naivete? . . .
Yep, it's the card. LeBron James and his kiddie handlers screwed up, staging an image-damaging public-relations disaster, and now some African-Americans want to change the subject by changing the argument.
NBA owners and their $100-million contracts are slave owners and King James is Kunta Kinte escaping on the Underground Railroad to Miami's Tootsie's Cabaret, where he'll make it rain.
It's stupid. Dan Gilbert's rant was certainly immature, but it wasn't remotely racist. He sounded like a scorned lover, a guy who gave his heart to a relationship and found out on national TV that the alleged love of his life didn't care about him at all.
Gilbert vented. I give James credit for not responding.
Jackson and other African-Americans need to follow LeBron's lead. We look foolish. We look hypocritical. We come across like people who have little genuine interest in seeing racial prejudice disappear and more like people who just want it to swing in our favor.
Rather than deal with the callous and classless way James departed his home state, some of us are trying to make this about race. It's not.
Comment