Jason Whitlock Quotes

• We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

  Jason Whitlock

  Attitude, Self, Hip Hop

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• The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.

  Jason Whitlock

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

  Jason Whitlock

  Queens, Kings, Pride

  "LeBron's pride simply not important". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenaged boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws. tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation, rather than avoiding it.

  Jason Whitlock

  Boys, Car, Safety

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I've been a solo act, a columnist and worked from home, only relying on myself. Now I'm part of a team, a leader, and I have to fit in at a big corporation and deal with all the moving parts, all the different personalities. That has been a challenge, to be quite honest, that I've embraced.

  Jason Whitlock

  Team, Moving, Home

  "Sunday Q&A: Jason Whitlock, on how there’s nothing watered down in the process of launching The Undefeated". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.insidesocal.com. May 30, 2015.

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• Having failed as an NFL commentator, Limbaugh understands the power of football.

  Jason Whitlock

  Football, Nfl, Commentators

  "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL". Fox Sports, October 13, 2009.

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• And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.

  Jason Whitlock

  Brother, Self, Common Sense

  "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL". Fox Sports, October 13, 2009.

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• And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at heart].

  Jason Whitlock

  Heart, Black Youth, People

  "Columnist Who Inspired Bob Costas Drops New Bomb: 'The NRA Is the New KKK'". Interview with Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. December 3, 2012.

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• RG III a victim of his own swagger.

  Jason Whitlock

  Swagger, Victim

  "Can Jason Whitlock Save ESPN's "Black Grantland" From Himself?". Interview with Greg Howard, deadspin.com. June 10, 2014.

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