14 April 2007

Great article and a little bit of a hijack on my part

http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html

My boy the socialist gambler listed this on his site and it was such a great read I thought I'd write about it as well. I also heard part of Jason Whitlock's interview on The Herd on ESPN radio. If you haven't read this article it's certainly worth a read. Goes right to my point of how overblown and offline we've gotten with this issue. Last time I checked there was a white woman on that team. Sexist--yes...racist--maybe...ignorant--without a doubt. I wonder when we're going to get past the same argument we hear every time. His point about Dave Chappelle and others throwing out the racial commentary seen as pure genius was spot on. One example that didn't get much play for whatever reason, but it's the South Park episode where they dropped the N-word about 40 minutes. This is a show written by white guys and black people see it as great social commentary. But call somebody a nappy-headed ho and we've crossed the line. Give me a break.

1 comment:

Jonathan said...

Hijack away. Whitlock is the man. I've been reading his stuff for awhile. If he didn't look like a slob and live in the middle of the boonies, he'd be a huge voice.