Interesting takedown of Whitlock.....

Your ignorance is legion.
The sad thing is idiots like you actually vote.

 

What do you mean "do almost anything for him" i/r/t Simmons? What would ever ask them to do?

 

They like him and they embrace the chance to work for his site.

 

Boy, now I feel bad.

 

I misread this at first, then saw "(rightly so, in my opinion)". Hip-hop and hip-hop culture isn't the problem, it's the idiots who can't discern "art" from reality. I'm a huge hip-hop head from a bad/gang neighborhood, my dad was a drug dealer, all the cliches you've heard. Turned out just fine.

 

I had, though I think it was on the cited podcast with Simmons and Whitlock. I'd heard that was part of why he made his ESPN return.

 

I guess I'm just naive. I always thought it was the columnist's job to write his or her opinion. If it went against the grain, so be it.

 

I did. and I re-read it. The argument is so weak it's not much of an argument. You cannot rationalize a culture that is built on money, misogyny, homophobia and violence, where educating yourself is a stigma and there's no respect for any authority figure. Whitlock has the courage to say this.

 

It's not a weak argument. I may not necessarily agree with all of it, but it's not weak.

The idea that black America had the deck completely, legally stacked against it -- in heinous ways! -- was true until the 1970s. Hundreds of years of vicious oppression. And you expect an entire culture to shake that off so quickly <i>without</i> revolution?

 

Wait, what?

You're joking, right? You're just playing into your reputation as someone who is only aware of activities that happen within your happy little valley, right?

 

Shot glass has one competitor for stupidest poster, but I give that person credit for trying.

 

There is nothing wrong at all with going against the grain. It becomes an issue when the writer doesn't actually believe what they are writing. People, on some level, can usually tell when this is the case.