Jason Whitlock, please stop pretending...

[KC Kings]

Jason,
For your own sake, please stop the facade. Everybody on this board has heard your radio shows, read your columns, and watched you on ESPN. Some love you, some hate you, and some love to hate you, but regardless of personal feelings everybody here reads your work. Do you think that anybody that has listened to your radio show or read your column actually believe that you are sincere about this? You had great timing with being the first black reporter to blast Jackson and Sharpton after the Imus ordeal, and now you are riding the waves to put yourself in front of one of the biggest national audiences on Oprah, the most influential person in America.

Maybe you were trying to find humor, but a lot of your statements, opinions, and shows have contained a lot of prejudice and sexist material. Just because you are wearing your church clothes and have a Sunday school attitude now, are we supposed to believe that you are any better than Sharpton or Jackson? You would be fine if this happened 20 years ago, but now that we are in the age of IT all of the skeletons in your closet are easily accessible, and will make you look like a hypocritical fool trying to make a buck off of race issues.

I know that you and your boys at the Star are frantically at work trying to get rid of all the evidence of your blatant hypocrasy, (your All-Star Sunday hangover story has already been removed from the Stars webpage, as others have noticed http://thestartingfive.wordpress.com...r-mr-chitlins/ ), but you can't cover up all of your past. Here are just a few gems of yours from the past couple of years.


I never knew what a halfa-n!gga was, or knew that it could be used as a derogatory comment until I heard it on your show. Sure you "ran the caller off", (who happened to be a good friend of yours), but you got a good laugh out of it and made it clear you ended the call just to CYA.

My white friends and I got a good chuckle as you reffered to the black women in Vegas as "Baby's mommas on income tax refund vacations"
http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/ma...20103009990001

I especially like all of your KC Star articles talking about your favorite things, BBQ and strippers. As much as you talked and wrote about strippers, there has to be a lot more evidence out there "Strippers are as much a part of sports as cheerleaders are"
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/whitlock/030508.html

Another great example for black children everywhere in this article. Cursing and hungover from Crown. Sounds like 50 Cent.
"I'm not a big drinker, but it was a tradition for my team to lose and for me to drown my sorrows in Crown Royal and then stumble in and talk about it on the radio."http://thebiglead.com/?p=1038

You are all of sudden against gangsta rap, but YOU added yourself as a friend to gangsta rappers 57th Rouge Dog Villians.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=88750724
Perhaps young black kids can go out to your friends space and listen to "Let's get F*cked Up", and they hit the Crown Royal.

Not only are you friends with gangsta's, you help gangsta rappers such as Tech N9ne negativley unfluence more people by promoting their studio. Drinkin... and smokin... and humpin... and lovin it.
"When Jason Whitlock, a sportswriter for the Kansas City Star and sometimes sports reporter on ESPN commissioned 5150 to produce all the music for his radio show the opportunity allowed 5150 to reach a larger more mainstream audience and aided in its being recognized as a legitimate fixture in the rap hip/hop production industry"
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=80492393

[Edit: This was Scoop Jackson not Whitlock. We could replace this with his slamming David Chapelle for making money off of racial jokes, long after Chapelle gave up millions and ended his Comedy Central contract due that exact issue. ] Telling young black kids that they had a better chance at being a NBA player than a sports writer. That is good stuff! Forget learning how read and write, work on your ball handling skills...
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/...jackson/060713



I guess your degrading sexual comments towards women don't affect young black women since you perfer white white women. That blue bunny better watch out. I can't tell if you are horny or hungry.

[GoHuge39]

Man that seems like alot of work.

Whitlock has got himself on the big stage now

[Mr. Kotter]

Originally Posted by Micjones

I think he just wants sound policy that encourages integration (ie, the softening and overall removal of grandfathered restrictive covenants, fair housing practices, etc.).

Unfortunately, the problems are really rooted much more deeply in socio-economic issues....than in race issues, IMHO. It's just hard to separate the two issues, because of the disproportionate percentages of impoverished blacks.

IIRC, even Kozol (in his earlier work anyway) seems to have difficulty in blurring of socioeconomic versus race issues--he seems to lump groups together, when it suits his purpose....and separates them, when it suits his purpose. That was one of the criticisms I had of his earlier work. Perhaps he addresses that in his later work though. I'll be interested to see if he has.

[Micjones]

It's definitely a tricky bag, but I think the lines are clear as it relates to restrictive covenants and other such practices...

[Guru]

Those of you with access to channel 27 in Topeka, NBC, the Oprah replay of todays show is on now.

[greg63]

Originally Posted by Guru

Those of you with access to channel 27 in Topeka, NBC, the Oprah replay of todays show is on now.

I wish I could get that channel.

[KC Kings]

Originally Posted by Micjones

I suppose you're missing the progress I'm making with Kotter?
There's a freeflow of ideas with the two of us because he's open minded enough to know the limitations of this kind of exchange.



I began with the resegregation of the public school system.
That's one problem that's ailing Black communities...

Resegregation is a joke. The problem is not with the school system, but the the ignorant parents that allow their children to fail. Why are there so many high school kids that can't read? Because their parents failed them. This all goes back to the people of the community, and since you are referring to black schools, in this instance the black community is faulted. It isn't like every kid that graduates from inner city schools is illiterate. There are plenty of kids that try hard in school, get support from the parents, and succeed in life.

"For decades critics of the public schools have been saying, "You can't solve educational problems by throwing money at them." The education establishment and its supporters have replied, "No one's ever tried." In Kansas City they did try. To improve the education of black students and encourage desegregation, a federal judge invited the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to come up with a cost-is-no-object educational plan and ordered local and state taxpayers to find the money to pay for it.

Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil--more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers' salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.

The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.

The Kansas City experiment suggests that, indeed, educational problems can't be solved by throwing money at them, that the structural problems of our current educational system are far more important than a lack of material resources, and that the focus on desegregation diverted attention from the real problem, low achievement."


http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298.html

[KC Kings]

Here is another gem of a quote. "As whites abandoned the schools, the school district's ability to raise taxes disappeared. The last year that the voters approved a tax increase for the schools was 1969, the same year that blacks first became a majority. Over the next two decades, the voters of the district declined to approve a tax increase for the school district 19 times in a row."

So the KC school district residents refuse to put anything into the school, then want to blame all of society when the school district fails. And it is not just money, it is the fact that the parents and residents do not care! Even when billions of non-KC money was thrown at the school district nothing changed. Why? Because the parents and residents still did not care.

[Baby Lee]

Prince Joe Henry has the answer;

Ask a Negro Leaguer

Originally Posted by Prince Joe

I'm quite sure that it is the educational system in America that needs a rude awakening. The recent action of Metro High School students in St. Louis points in that direction. Initially, they occupied the mayor's office in protest of their school losing accreditation and later traveled to the capitol in Jefferson City to complain to lawmakers about a state takeover. Since most students were black and because Missouri was a slave state, it would have been unprecedented if they had demanded a test in their school concerning blacks' history in America. I'm not a betting man, but I would have bet that both black and white students would have failed the test, as would have most black and white teachers, in spite of their "degrees." If this same test were applied throughout the country in the best high schools and colleges, black and white, all would lose accreditation. Then the playing field would be leveled. The educational system then could start over again the right way. Until this occurs, there aren't too many "educators."

[pikesome]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Prince Joe Henry has the answer;

Ask a Negro Leaguer

I think I understand his point (maybe) but this passage makes no sense. You need to read the rest of the article to figure out he's talking about Black interest in Jackie Robinson, the school stuff makes little sense to that end.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by pikesome

I think I understand his point (maybe) but this passage makes no sense. You need to read the rest of the article to figure out he's talking about Black interest in Jackie Robinson, the school stuff makes little sense to that end.

Prince Joe is a notorious rambler. His columns are 'lahk uh bowks ah chock-lits.'