by Jason Whitlock
Today I’m going to explain the negative ramifications of black athletes morphing into black rappers.
Let’s move to Philadelphia, where BLM and Antifa protesters have rioted, looted and vandalized on consecutive nights in the aftermath of two Philly police officers shooting and killing an armed criminal suspect.
The BLM movement has normalized rioting, looting and anarchy as the natural reaction whenever a white police officer is involved in shooting a black criminal suspect. The behavior, character and criminal record of the suspect are irrelevant.
Walter Wallace Jr., the 27-year-old victim, was bipolar, an aspiring rapper, a father of seven, recently married to one of his baby mamas and someone with a substantial criminal history.
In March, he was arrested for threatening to kill the mother of one of his kids, telling her he’d shoot her and the whole house up. In 2019, police arrested him for kicking the windows and door panels of a police car. According to court records, while executing a robbery in 2016, he grabbed a woman by the neck and held a gun to her head. In 2013, according to court records, he punched his mother in the face and threatened to kill her.
For much of the last decade, Walter Wallace Jr., has been flirting with a violent confrontation with police. It happened Monday afternoon when he walked toward police and repeatedly refused to drop a knife.
LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, the NFL, the NBA, BLM organizers and other celebrity influencers have normalized non-compliance with police instructions. They have made heroes of Jacob Blake, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and other black criminal suspects who have disobeyed police instructions and been injured or killed in the process.
Yes, I include Breonna Taylor on this list because her boyfriend admitted shooting a police officer before Louisville police opened fire inside her apartment.
I have sympathy for Blake, Floyd, Brooks, Taylor, Garner and even Walter Wallace Jr. However, I do not exonerate and excuse the behavior that led to their encounter with police turning violent and deadly.
And I certainly don’t excuse the cheerleaders in the sports and entertainment worlds who are normalizing the non-compliant behavior. Over the weekend, the rapper Offset live streamed himself bickering with police officers who were attempting to arrest the rapper’s cousin for waving a gun at a Trump rally.
It’s not unusual for musicians to have an adversarial relationship with law enforcement. Music is rebellious, anti-establishment and counter cultural. Musicians promote drug use, sexual promiscuity and other forms of immorality.
The marriage of sports, particularly football and basketball, to commercial hip hop has dramatically changed how black athletes use their influence.
LeBron James is Jay-Z, not Muhammad Ali.
Colin Kaepernick is Vanilla Ice, not Arthur Ashe.
James and Kaepernick have led black athletes and their respective sports leagues down the path of rap and rock-n-roll. Athletes are rebellious and immoral. They influence their fans to adopt dangerous behavior. They align themselves with criminality and criminals.
They’re rappers.
During the looting and rioting Tuesday night in Philadelphia, a 15-year-old girl was shot and hospitalized.
No one cares. Not one NFL player will put the girl’s name on the back of his helmet this weekend.
BLM Protests Kill Ratings For Professional Sports …..
Ratings Woes Continue for Woke NBA, MLB, NFL …….
So…..
NBA to leave BLM, social justice messaging ‘off the floor’……
All that talk about how teams should not call their OWNERS, owners because, slavery/racism.
All that talk about no national anthem (an entire audience sang it as players ran back on the field and STOOD, in a line, respectfully, while they sang.
All that talk did nothing but make them broke.
As a new bottom line, maybe, from now on, prospective players will be tested to see if they really deserved the college degree they were handed.
Dumb people might make millions of dollars, but they won’t keep the money for long.
This doesn’t necessarily smear Wallace with a criminal record; it exposes the PROBLEM. Numerous violent crimes were simply ignored and Wallace was repeatedly released. He either should have been treated for mental illness or in jail, but DEMOCRATS prefer to “mercifully” keep releasing violent criminals back into the public. That’s the Democrat MO; defer the problem to someone else. No matter what happens, they will exploit the results. Here, they just scapegoat the police.
It is a sad fact that blacks draw police attention more often than whites. They do so by either committing a disproportional amount of crimes or by being the same skin color as a suspected criminal. “Mercifully” forgiving them is not the answer; economies like what Trump provides is; economic opportunity that, over time (not tomorrow or next week) will allow those condemned to poverty by endless dependency on government dole. Of course, those who rely on that dependency for votes oppose the economic solution; they need the votes and the tragedies to exploit.
@Nan G:
Yeah, right. We’ll see who has the final say there. The players aren’t smart enough to know where those million dollar contracts come from. They, like every other coddled liberal, believe the money to pay them just appears at the end of a rainbow. They have no idea how their racist rants hurts THEIR bottom line.