Whitlock Does it Again
The Fox Sports commentator continues to burnish his Uncle Tom bona fides.
Candace Owens has been doing her best to hold down the title of Most Odious Pseudo-Black Conservative. From her previously unfettered devotion to the former president to her wearing “White Lives Matter” apparel, she has been pandering to the Fox News-loving crowd with few to rival her.
But former ESPN and current Fox Sports commentator Jason Whitlock is doing his best to catch up. He has been steadfast in providing a male counterpart to Owens’ self-hating ramblings.
His latest despicable utterances are his explanation of the extrajudicial death of Memphis resident Tyre Nichols.
According to Whitlock, single Black women are to blame.
About the filmed murder of Nichols by five Black policeman, Whitlock opined:
“Everybody involved in this on the street level was either 24 to 32 years old. Everybody. It was a group of young Black men, five-on-one. Looked like gang violence to me. It looked like what young Black men do when they’re supervised by a single Black woman.”
When singer Ciara and actress Holly Robinson-Peete, among others, took him to task, Whitlock responded:
“Appreciate the feedback... But at some point, we are going to have to deal with the negative impact of baby-mama culture. It's destructive and unsustainable. Come up out of the denial. Denial won't fix the problem. Thanks.”
And
“Tyre Nichols cried out for his mama for a reason. I’m not saying that to belittle Nichols. I’m saying it’s a reflection of modern black culture, a culture that inappropriately places women at the top of the food chain. Mama is the ultimate authority and savior.”
Finally,
“Young men without fathers in the home are attracted to gangs. Baby mama culture celebrates gang involvement.”
A voice of clarity! After all the ill-advised, misjudging many of us have been guilty of, believing that the historic slave patrol mentality has led to rabid, often misapplied policing against Blacks and other minorities.
How wrong we have been!
If we had only realized that single Black women are the cause of police murders, as well as every other social ill Blacks experience.
Not racism.
Not deeply ingrained prejudiced inculcated by ignorance, fear, and the hundreds of years of institutional chattel slavery, and institutional, racially stereotyped-based laws.
No, none of these things.
According to Whitlock, Black men need to return being the head of their homes, wresting control away from Black women, and reminding them who’s supposed to be in charge.
In one fell swoop, Whitlock concocts this noxious cocktail of self-hatred, racist-empowering, and misogyny to pander to the Tucker Carlsons of the world. This kind of ridiculous nonsense is exactly what racists to hear.
Whitlock is a 21st century version of “Stephen,” Samuel L. Jackson’s Uncle Tom slave who works in concert with his master, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Stephen meets and strategizes with his master, under the mistaken impression that he finds favor with him because he informs on fellow slaves and plots their downfall, all the time ignoring the painfully obvious fact that he is never given his freedom, that he is still a slave.
The Jason Whitlocks and Candace Owenses of the world will never gain the respect and affection they so desperately desire from White conservatives. No amount of kowtowing or deference will secure their place in society. They will be lumped in with the rest of us, no matter what they say or do.
Single Black women aren’t all “baby mamas.” Many of them that are take responsibility and build the best life they can. There are so many reasons why some Black women end up single with children. They can’t all be categorized and labelled.
Black people know that Black women have taken a large amount of societal responsibility which they neither asked for or desired. There are many Black men who are responsible members of society. The false narrative that absentee Black fathers and single Black mothers are responsible for Black societal ills must cease.
The real, prescient issues are identifying the effects of hundreds of years of institutional racism on Black people.
These are the issues that many White people are unable or incapable of facing.
Jason Whitlock’s foolish comments won’t change the truth, no matter how “Stephen” he wants to be.