"We didn’t work together. But, yeah, there’s a big dropoff from being associated with Ralph, Hunter and Bill than being linked to someone doing a bad Nat X impersonation. It pissed me off that the dude tried to call himself the next Ralph Wiley and stated some [bleep] about carrying Ralph’s legacy. Ralph was one of my best friends. I hate to go all Lloyd Bentsen, but Scoop Jackson is no Ralph Wiley. Ralph was a grown-ass man who didn’t bojangle for anybody. Scoop is a clown. And the publishing of his fake ghetto posturing is an insult to black intelligence, and it interferes with intelligent discussion of important racial issues."- Jason Whitlock, in an interview with the blog The Big Lead. These comments, as well as his ripping of Mike Lupica, have now, outrageously, gotten Whitlock fired from on-air ESPN appearances.
I've never been much of a Whitlock fan, but he's certainly in the right here, and it was wrong for the Leader to give him his walking papers.
Posted by Stephen Silver at September 26, 2006 04:36 PM