Jason Whitlock compares 'groundless' BYU racial heckling allegations to lies that 'got Emmett Till killed'



BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on Monday compared the discredited story that a Brigham Young University fan hurled racial slurs at a black Duke volleyball player to the false allegations made against Emmett Till, a black boy who was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi after a white woman claimed he had harassed her.

In an appearance on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Whitlock lambasted the mainstream media coverage of an alleged racial incident at an Aug. 26 volleyball match. A non-student fan was banned by BYU officials after the family of Rachel Richardson, a Duke volleyball player, claimed she had been called the N-word multiple times during the game.

On Sept. 9, BYU said it had completed an investigation into the alleged incident and concluded there was no evidence that anything inappropriate was shouted. The school lifted the ban on the fan who was falsely accused of hurling racial slurs.

"This story never made sense. From day one, it was obvious this young woman's godmother, with her own racist past over social media, concocted, exaggerated this," Whitlock told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

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He accused biased news reporters of seizing on "fake racial incidents" to cover for the "anti-black racism" of the Democratic Party. Whitlock accused Democrats of telling faith-based black voters they must "hop on board with every satanic movement" when it comes to abortion and transgender issues.

"If you understand the history of black people, there's nothing more racist than that," Whitlock said. "They don't want to talk about that. They want to talk about these make-believe scenarios that never made an ounce of sense."

He continued: "This game was televised. This volleyball match was televised, no one made a sound. No one looked in the stands. No one acted as if anybody was being heckled [with] racial slurs. This was a game of telephone between this 19-year-old girl and her godmother, and the media just ran with it."

Whitlock concluded by comparing the controversy to the lynching of Emmett Till. Till was a 14-year-old black boy who, in 1955, was brutally murdered by two white men after Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, said Till had groped her, made crude remarks, and wolf-whistled at her. Till's murderers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were found not guilty of the crime by an all-white jury but confessed to the crime a year later in 1956. They were not retried. Decades later, Bryant admitted the accusations were false.

"This to me, Tucker, is no different than the Carolyn Bryant woman in 1955 in Mississippi," he said. "This type of accusation, groundless accusation, is what got Emmett Till killed. And at BYU, they originally accused a special needs young man of doing this without any evidence, based off this woman's word ... her godmother, who wasn't there, and her father, who wasn't there. They gathered up a lynch mob and blamed it on this 19-year-old kid.

"These guys don't want to end racism. They want to cover up their own racism and then impose racism on people they don't like."

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Whitlock: Stephen A. Smith and LeBron James join ‘The Woman King’ movement in support of Duke volleyball player



Over the weekend, the racial grievance industrial complex churned out its latest too-good-to-be-immediately-believed victim of systemic and unapologetic white supremacy.

Rachel Richardson, a 19-year-old volleyball player and student at Duke University, is the next woman up in an assembly line that has a nasty habit of producing Jussie Smollett and Bubba Wallace lemons.

According to media racial grievance engineers, Richardson and her teammates endured match-long racial taunts while competing against Brigham Young University in Utah. High-profile racial grievance reviewers such as LeBron James, Stephen A. Smith, and Ben Crump scored Richardson’s tale 100% fresh.

James tweeted words of encouragement. Smith, on his ESPN TV show, conducted a long discussion about Richardson’s plight. Crump, of course, sent a social-media bat signal to Richardson’s family that he would be more than happy to coordinate a financial shakedown of BYU.

BYU administrators quickly groveled for forgiveness. The school’s athletics director issued an apology, met with Richardson privately, and banned an unnamed male fan from attending BYU sporting events.

For many, that’s the end of the story. Racism has been identified and publicly rebuked. For others, it’s just the beginning.

I’m part of the latter group. This story is just too neat. It makes no sense. A YouTuber named Aidan Kearney pieced together some of the holes in this story. He published a long story on his blog questioning the narrative. It’s worth reading.

What I found most interesting in the story is the role of a business called A Long Talk. It’s an anti-racism counseling business that launched in Washington, D.C., two months after the death of Saint George Floyd in Minneapolis. For a fee, A Long Talk team member will visit your school or business and teach people how to be anti-racist.

Just days before Rachel Richardson allegedly endured racial taunts at BYU, A Long Talk team member counseled the Duke volleyball team on “unpacking your truth, finding your voice, and activating your activism.”

According to ALongTalk.com, unpacking your truth means: “I will be able to make connections between our shared American history and our current reality.”

Finding your voice means: “I will be able to use the CPR Protocol to challenge racist comments and beliefs.”

Activating your activism means: “I will understand the reality that creating a counter culture of anti-racism can only happen through collective, consistent and courageous acts of identifying and interrupting racism.”

Let me translate these corporate word salads: A Long Talk teaches black people how to argue and monetize the belief that everything that happens in America today is directly related to the slavery that ended 160 years ago.

A Long Talk teaches you how to hustle. Rachel Richardson is a quick study. In her racial grievance acceptance statement, she thanked the organization for schooling her.

“My team and I were fortunate enough to go through ‘A Long Talk,’ which is an educational series on the roots of racism and how to be an activist in not just dealing with racism but preventing and ending it. This helped to equip us to deal with the situation in a mature manner rather than to react in a retaliatory manner.”

The entire match between BYU and Duke was televised. BYU is nationally ranked. There were nearly 6,000 spectators. Despite supposedly enduring two hours of verbal abuse, Richardson and her teammates never reacted.

“Although the heckling eventually took a mental toll on me,” she wrote, “I refused to allow it to stop me from doing what I love to do and what I came to BYU you to do; which was to play volleyball. I refused to allow those racist bigots to feel any degree of satisfaction from thinking their comments had ‘gotten to me’. So I pushed through and finished the game.”

Aidan Kearney’s story showed pictures of black BYU basketball players at the volleyball match cheering next to the student section, where the alleged racist was supposed to be endlessly shouting racial slurs.

I’ve attended a lot of sporting events in my career as a sports journalist. Someone shouting repeated racial slurs would stand out. The only time it goes ignored is when it’s a group of black young people calling each other the N-word.

If the Duke players truly felt unsafe because of the harassment, I blame the Duke coaches for not immediately addressing the situation. This smells like an exaggeration or a hoax.

Richardson’s godmother, Lesa Pamplin, a Democrat politician in Texas, ignited much of this controversy. From her home in Texas, Pamplin tweeted that her goddaughter had been called “a n—er every time she served” and that a white male threatened her. According to Kearney’s research, Pamplin has a very sordid history of making racist comments on Twitter. Pamplin has now made her Twitter feed private.

None of this story makes sense. Richardson blamed the BYU staff for failing to act swiftly to protect her and her black teammates. What about the Duke coaches?

Richardson met privately with BYU’s athletics director. Richardson’s father publicly complained that the BYU volleyball coach didn’t meet with Richardson. How is the BYU coach responsible for the behavior of a fan?

Why are people who ignored the on-field murder of a Pee Wee football coach in Dallas all finding their voices to speak out on behalf of a volleyball player who was taunted in Utah?

LeBron James, Stephen A. Smith, and Ben Crump ignored the murder of Mike Hickmon in front of his wife and 9-year-old son. Hickmon’s coaching peers stated on the record that former NFL Pro Bowler Aqib Talib sparked the confrontation that led Talib’s brother to allegedly shoot Mike Hickmon.

Alleged racial taunts at a volleyball match are more worthy of discussion than the murder of a father, husband, and former college football player at a Pee Wee football game.

In what world? How?

This is the racial #MeToo movement, and they’re expecting us to “believe all women” because women are allegedly incapable of exaggerating or lying for attention. Rachel Richardson and Lesa Pamplin descended from the heavens to right the wrongs of white men.

They’re descendants of the great Amazon warrior tribe of Dahomey, Africa. They’re modern day Woman Kings, the spiritual sisters of Daenerys Targaryen and Arya Stark, the "Game of Thrones" heroines.

Sixty years ago, the racial grievance industrial complex married the feminist grievance industrial complex. Rachel Richarson is their love child.