Jason whitlock las vegas all star game

I think Zirin and Whitlock both know that kids in baggy jeans aren't the problem. Drunk kids with guns, however, have always been a problem. Different people like to party different ways. The way some people like to party ends up with people getting killed. This was that kind of party. It was palpable as early as Friday night, as I blogged early Saturday. Whitlock did what he probably thought was his job: to tell the truth, and let the chips fall where they may. Sure, he way overdid it by comparing himself to Rosa Parks.

He also calls himself Big Sexy. But that doesn't mean his point wasn't valid. The crowd on the streets of Las Vegas was drunk and violent. Many had weapons. If major steps aren't taken to prevent that kind of scene in New Orleans then a major mistake will have been made. This morning in The New York Times Harvey Araton who is not black, and did spend some time in Las Vegas but admits he was in his hotel room with his family late at night joins the fray with lots of talk about racists fueling this, and an oddly off-base defense of the NBA.

That's one party that, as far as I am aware, remains unaccused of wrongdoing here. This is like if there are hooligans at a British soccer match, do we really need a spirited defense of the premiership? As a friend would say "umm Commissioner Stern? Step out of the center. There are violent drunk people jamming the streets. Who in their right mind would choose that incident to obsess about market share of the NBA vs.

Harvey Araton, I guess:. A few hundred arrests over several days, roughly half for prostitution in a city that is the home office for Hookers R Us — how does this qualify as an indictment of a certain read: African-American element now said to have been running rampant everywhere but between Dick Bavetta and Charles Barkley during their charity race?

Or are only black people vulnerable to the seductions of Las Vegas? Do you doubt that there were more African-Americans in Las Vegas last week than at any time in its history, and some people felt threatened by that simply as a matter of culture? But his perceptions represent only one of the hundreds of journalists in Las Vegas and ultimately have become less the issue for Stern than the latest round of mostly uninformed N.

In short, there were many reasons to remember the Las Vegas weekend in a positive light, especially if you were not actually on the scene in the desert. For many, the basketball-only portion ranked up there with some of the best compilations that the league has ever put on in February and, for a brief moment in time, it looked as if the NBA — long before the NHL — would actually consider moving a team to Las Vegas full-time. In fact, former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goldman told the Las Vegas Sun at the time that his chief motivation for hosting the event was to bend the ear of the commissioner on that very topic.

What happened? The most prominent athlete associated with trouble during that time was NFL cornerback Adam Jones , not anyone associated with the league directly. It is bizarre to reflect on that now-infamous stretch of time for a number of reasons, but to some degree, there were highs and lows in the same way that many sprawling, massive events provide.

Man, I can count on one hand how many gangsta white rappers there are out there. However, when it comes to african americans, lets be honest here What would you say the breakdown is between white and black gangsta rappers? Feel me? Citing Eminem was silly.

Speaking of gangsta rap Is it any wonder that the few white rappers we have seen over the last few decades were either raised in a pverty stricken broken family Eminem OR preach about how they were raised in the ghetto when actually they went to Paris High School V Ice. Face it Rap, for the most part, is angry expressionism. Do I have an issue with it? Hells no. I love Ice Cube, Dre, Snoop, and others.

I sing that stuff loud in my car, and bump it at home. Do I act it out like its a reality? I think thats the key. I'm sure you listen to rap too, or did at one point, and you werent drawn towards the negative.

So why are others of african american descent unable to separate rap from reality? I believe they will in due time and I applaud Jason Whitlock for putting his arse out there with some controversial, but neccessary statements. I appreciate your opinion, I do, but as a fellow American of black descent, I am deeply saddened by the way our race is representing itself these days.

It really all comes down to upbringing. Sad but true. I hope the race card will go away in my lifetime, but I'm not all that certain it will. And that saddens me even greater. Thanks for the intriguing response. You made some good points, IMHO, but failed to prove your overall point. Be well, be passionate, and live with pride and respect for yourself and others my brotha.

First off all, the Don Imus issue is not a hip hop issue. Jason Whitlock have more self hate, than any "gangsta" rappers. Ask yourself, has Whitlock ever said anything positive about black people, beside himself? Atleast in hip hop there are positive rappers, who do uplift black people, unlike Jason.

The other thing I don't uderstand, hip hop is not the only media, to disrespect women or have violent content or have vulgur langage, but there's no outcry from Jason Whitlock or Al Sharpton. When a rapper say the b word its the worst thing ever, but watch any reality show, cable show, a soap or even a movie, that word is use freely, these same people, will yelled "I don't want my kids to a watch that junk", but their kids are watching things much more harmful. Ask yourself, do Al Shaypton or Whitlock, change the channel everytime, a act of violence is shown on primetime tv?

Or flip the nob,when somebody having sex on tv? Did Whitlock get pissed evertime "The Sorpanos" used the f bomb? Probably not. Well, Sharpton might, but Mr. Hotair, no. Most of these critcs, have no problem with on tv, but god these rappers are the threats! When something wrong in the world, for now on, just blame hip hop.

If we censor rap lyrics everything would be alright, right. While Gen-Y is still getting married at much lower rates than previous generations, some millennials are finally beginning to grow up, enter Zennie62 on YouTube. On the 12th he wrote an article blaming Don Imus' words on the "problem" created by Black rappers. That's stupid. What bothers me about Jason is he's on shows basically attacking the all-too-easy target of the Black rapper , while leaving every White racist and White rapper without blame.

Look, it's plain dumb to compare Don Imus obvious racial gaffe to Black rappers. The real problem is that there are people who are White and Asian and Latino who feel that it's OK to make fun of and essentially be hurtful to those who are Black because they are Black. Those people who do this will use any reason available to justify their words of hate, including pointing at Black rappers as "creating the climate".

Hey, to blame hundreds of years of racism on a year old kid is pretty silly when you think about it. But it take a stupidly-reasoning person to help them point the finger and thus let them off the hook. That's what Jason Whitlock is trying to do. As I do my research on Jason, it turns out that he's pissed with all Blacks -- I guess including himself -- because he had a bad experience at the airport leaving the NBA All Star Game.

Here's what happened: "The whole All-Star Weekend just put me on edge; it left me in a sour mood. I can't deny what I saw. When I arrived at the Vegas airport Tuesday afternoon, All-Star Weekend gave me one final kick in the stomach, and I'm not talking about the long lines at the Southwest baggage check-in. I stood in line for 75 minutes in the Southwest A boarding group. I was fourth in line behind three elderly white people ages 60 to They beat me in line by three or four minutes.

The A, B and C groups were all filled an hour before the flight's scheduled departure. Twenty feet away from where we all waited in line, a middle-aged black woman 45 to 55 , what appeared to be her two sons 22 to 30 and an elderly black man 60s all sat together and randomly slept, ate and talked. When it was time to board the flight, the group of four stood, approached the elderly white woman standing in front of me and told her, "We're second in line.

That's my bag on the floor. I wasn't and told the group they were crazy, and they needed to head to the back of the A boarding group and get in line behind all the people who stood for an hour. Of course, they disagreed. I walked over and told the Southwest boarding agent to fix the problem. Stats Team Stats. American Airlines Center.

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