JASON WHITLOCK WANTS TO BE ACCEPTED BY BLACK PEOPLE

Unless you have been living under a rock, Jason Whitlock and Stephen A. Smith has been in a fierce online battle.

Honestly, I do not care for either of these guys. They are successful jokes as black men. Oddly, both are correct in what they say about each other. Stephen thinks Jason is a sellout that comes after blacks. Jason feels Stephen is an industry talentless plant. I agree with both gentlemen.

I begin listening to Jason in 2007. As a black sports media member, Jason had a unique way in covering sports. He covered sports from a racial point of view. It appeared that he utilized a lot of time criticizing black professional and collegiate athletes.

A lot of things he said about blacks were true in my opinion but I noticed the volume at which he continued the onslaught. In my opinion, it was very one sided.

In the beginning I was listening because he covered sports differently but then it morphed into me following him to be upset about the things he said about blacks.

In the last year, I have seen Jason praise

• Charleston White
• Katt Williams
• American Fiction (movie)

What does these three things have in common? They all have said or depicted black people in a negative way. On his show, he posed the question if more blacks are beginning to think like him.

Any time a black person says something negative about blacks that aligns with his way of thinking, he loves it.

About a week ago, I was watching his show and he was talking about the movie American Fiction. Apparently, American Fiction focused on how Hollywood prefer blacks depicted in a stereotypical way. Jason took this opportunity to let us know, that's the only he's been trying to point out.

In fact Jason went on to elaborate how he purposely got in media to battle. It has nothing to do with black people, it's all about raising the standards of black people.

This would all be fine and dandy except, it's a total fabrication or at best a half truth. Yes, Jason do go after media but I have been listening to this guy for a minute and he spends lots of time hammering black people.

On his show he tries to convince black people, I am not targeting you, I am going after the media. How can you criticize black people daily and then say, you are really going after the media?

I believe Jason was totally accepting of black people not liking him before highly publicized feud with Stephen A. Smith. After the spat, nearly everyone in sports media crushed him notable black people. At this point, it was not only media going at him but now the general public therefore he had to stop the bleeding.

One of the reasons I was initially drawn to Jason is because he's a conservative black man. That said, I do not like how he makes it his mission to go after black people and It's not just the media. Jason Whitlock has found a niche in being a black conservative man that will say what non blacks cannot say.

It's a total "win win", white people who agrees with him will support it and blacks will get emotional over the things he says. In my opinion he's nothing more than a race hustler. Most of his content is centered around race. Remove racial topics from his arsenal and he's nothing worth entertaining.

It's nearly insulting that he's trying to say he do not only target black media. This is a trick of moving the argument. Jason is absolutely right, he does not only go at black media he goes at black people as if he's the moral authority of blacks.