I thought that it was pretty amazing that this Jason Whitlock vs. the Hip/hop culture is still going. Jason has hit a nerve in the culture and is inviting others to disagree with him. In his most recent commentary, he talked about a forum that he was apart of that was organized by Spike Lee. The forum focused on the negative image that has been given to black athletes. Alonzo Mourning was one of the athletes giving his case. Whitlock however kept on beeting the same drum that it's all about hip/hop culture.
I'm thinking that a lot of the problems of society do come from things like the hip/hop culture. But I'm not going to totally agree with Whitlock about black athletes not being presented in the same light as others. There is definitely favoritism in the media still today and some of it may stem from race or background.
http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/100983.html
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I think that is topic is sort of overrated now to be honest. I really do not think that no matter how many bad things are written about rappers and athletes it is going to make them change anymore then they already have (if at all). Look at Ricky Williams, he got a year ban from the NFL for smoking pot and a month before he suppose to be reinstated he fails yet another drug test. He is not changing at all and neither are any of those rappers out today. I do not like the image that is out today but there is not a lot I can do.
Posted by Ryan Knuth | May 12, 2007 3:40 PM
Posted on May 12, 2007 15:40
I don't like to point fingers as much as I like to think my way out of problems, and it seems to me like Whitlock is very sensible on this issue. When there are forty one NFL players arrested in the last year, and thirty nine are black I don't see that there is a bias when they are reported on. I understand that the media shouldn't proliferate the image of black athletes all being criminals, but the numbers and the players actions are what does the proliferating. Whitlock is skipping the politics of the situation and jumping straight to the source of the problem. If you think about this in any analogy out of the race context it makes sense.
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May 12, 2007 10:35 PM
Posted on May 12, 2007 22:35