NBA Doubles Down On Woke By Punishing Jaden Ivey For His Christianity
The NBA's players should defend Ivey and demand that all franchise owners keep out of politics and let their players prove themselves on the court.The NBA's players should defend Ivey and demand that all franchise owners keep out of politics and let their players prove themselves on the court.‘South Park’ mocks Lizzo and body positivity movement; Lizzo takes it as a compliment
While most television shows now cater to the “woke” community, "South Park" is one of the few that have remained strong.
In its just-released “The End of Obesity'' episode, the creators mocked the new Ozempic weight-loss craze, as well as the face of the body positivity movement: Lizzo.
In one scene, Stan’s mother, Sharon Marsh, tells her friend that she had been feeling ashamed of herself because she’d been unable to secure Ozempic in order to lose weight.
“I’m telling you Sheila, these new drugs are pretty amazing. I was feeling so ashamed of myself, watching Randy go out and exercise all the time and not eating as much, but I just don’t have the same kind of willpower he has,” Sharon told her friend Sheila.
“There’s a whole new obesity drug for those of us who can’t afford Ozempic and Monjaro. I’ve controlled all my cravings to be thinner with Lizzo!” Sharon exclaims, before a pharmaceutical commercial for “Lizzo” begins.
“FDA approved ‘Lizzo’ makes you feel good about your weight, and it costs 90% less than Ozempic,” the commercial begins. “I've lowered my standards and my expectations,” Sharon exclaims happily.
“In case studies, 70% of patients on ‘Lizzo’ no longer cared how much they weigh. ‘Lizzo’ helps you eat everything you want and keep physical activity to a minimum. Some patients report constipation while listening to ‘Lizzo.’ Stop listening to ‘Lizzo’ if you experience suicidal thoughts,’” the commercial continues.
Lizzo responded to the show in a livestream. “I just feel like damn, I’m really that b*tch. I’m really that b*tch. I really showed the world how to love yourself and not give a f*** to the point where these men in Colorado know who I am and put it on their cartoon that’s been around for 25 years.”
Dave Rubin is thrilled, noting that "South Park" has been ahead on pretty much everything.
“Now, we have something going on with this body positivity movement and that somehow being fit is white supremacist or something like that,” Rubin says, telling athlete Riley Gaines that her generation now connects to the idea that “big is beautiful.”
“I think she took it as a compliment,” Gaines tells Rubin. “But yeah, we see the glorification daily of anything that is immoral, anything that is evil, anything that is unhealthy. We have seen this the past few years, but the mask is off now.”
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Stephen A. ‘Myth’ apologizes to Kyrie Irving, reveals more lies
Stephen A. Smith once implored Kyrie Irving to retire from the NBA over his refusal to take the jab. Now, with Irving on the doorstep of the NBA finals, Smith is apologizing.
In his attempt to make amends, Smith mentioned Kenny Smith’s conversation with him about Kyrie and went on to say that Kenny’s brother helped train the ESPN host in basketball and was one of the reasons he was able to secure a full ride to Winston-Salem State.
“My boy Kenny Smith and I go back decades. His brother Vincent Smith used to train me,” Smith said on his podcast. “I got a scholarship, basketball scholarship, because of Vincent Smith.”
Jason Whitlock isn’t letting it slide and believes that was an important piece of information that should’ve been included in his memoir, what Whitlock calls a work of historical fiction.
“First time I’ve heard it, and you guys know how much time I’ve spent researching Stephen A. Smith, reading his memoir, tracking and monitoring what he has said and contradicted,” Whitlock says. “I’ve been tracking all of it, but I had never heard Stephen A. Smith assert that Kenny Smith’s brother is responsible or played a role in him getting a full-ride basketball scholarship.”
Whitlock then went and refreshed his memory, going back to the two times Kenny Smith was referenced in Smith’s memoir.
“Along the way, there’s an inordinate number of friendships I’ve been blessed to have with colleagues at ESPN, as well as people who don’t work at ESPN: Snoop Dogg; Jamie Fox; Charlie Mac; Michael Ealy; Charles Barkley; Shaq; Kenny Smith,” Smith wrote in memoir.
That was the first reference.
“I just didn’t have the money (or the talent) for those travel and AAU programs, like the Gauchos or Riverside. They were reserved for the young phenoms I knew about, from Rod Strickland, Dwayne ‘Pearl’ Washington, Mark Jackson, and Kenny Smith, then on to Kenny Anderson and Lloyd ‘Sweet Pea,’” Smith wrote in his second reference.
Not one mention of Kenny Smith’s brother helping Smith get a scholarship.
“That’s not the story Stephen A. Smith told in his book. He talked about a guy, either Howard or Harold Kit, taking him out on the playground in February in New York City and then driving him down to Winston-Salem State on a Sunday to try out in front of the big house games in the middle of their basketball season. That’s the story he told in his book,” Whitlock says.
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‘A Brief And Visual History Of Antisemitism’ Is An Important Resource In Today’s Climate
The book is 549 pages long and has detailed endnotes. It serves both as a well-documented resource book and a useful tool for the classroom.Whitlock: Jerry Jones photo can’t conceal that LeBron James is ‘Pookie’ from ‘New Jack City’
Like the Chris Rock character “Pookie” in the movie “New Jack City,” LeBron James is tweaking again. He fell off the dopamine wagon. He needs another hit off Twitter’s glass pipe, and it appears the NBA star is willing to jack Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for a fix.
Last night, following a Lakers victory over Portland, LeBron turned his postgame news conference into a trap house. He ended his media session complaining to reporters about their failure to ask him about a 1957 photo of 14-year-old Jerry Jones outside an Arkansas school engulfed in a desegregation protest. Last Wednesday, the Washington Post published a story about the photo.
James, an NBA player, said he couldn’t understand why NBA reporters failed to ask him about the NFL owner, particularly since NBA reporters asked him questions about NBA player and former teammate Kyrie Irving.
“When I watch Kyrie talk and he says, ‘I know who I am, but I want to keep the same energy when we’re talking about my people and the things that we’ve been through.’ And that Jerry Jones photo is one of those moments that our people, black people, have been through in America. And I feel like, as a black man, as a black athlete, as someone with power and a platform, when we do something wrong, or something that people don’t agree with, it’s on every single tabloid, every single news coverage, it’s on the bottom ticker. It's asked about every single day.
“But it seems like to me that the whole Jerry Jones situation, photo – and I know it was years and years ago, and we all make mistakes, I get it – but it seems like it’s just been buried under, like, ‘Oh, it happened. OK, we just move on.’ And I was just kind of disappointed that I haven’t received that question from you guys.”
LeBron’s logic is obviously tortured, even by today’s low standards. It’s one of the worst examples of “whataboutism.” It’s so bad that the “What about Brett Favre” people are embarrassed for LeBron.
A basketball player is pretending to be upset that basketball reporters didn’t ask him about an old picture of a football owner.
In the era of social media and brand control, do athletes need permission from the media to comment on whatever they want? Did LeBron wait for a media question to fire off an opinion about an Ohio cop who shot and killed a young woman trying to stab another young woman? Or did he simply tweet a threatening warning to Officer Nicholas Reardon?
Is LeBron disappointed that NBA reporters never peppered him with questions about Ethan Liming, the teenager murdered in the parking lot of LeBron’s iPromise school?
Being a former Cowboys fan doesn’t qualify LeBron as an expert on 65-year-old photos. Nor does being a 38-year-old billionaire black man connect you to the pain and oppression black people suffered 65 years ago in the South.
It’s all a gimmick. LeBron has been a pampered elite disconnected from reality since about age 12, when Nike and other athlete prospectors discovered gold in his DNA. The Chosen One turned into the Golden Child long before he could fully comprehend the consequences of poverty and in plenty of time to be shielded from oppression.
America exploits talent. It doesn’t oppress it.
James’ limitless athleticism and limited intellectual evolution make him a prime candidate for exploitation. His puppet masters hooked him on dopamine, the crack cocaine of social media. He’s a dopamine fiend. He’s a user. He gets high on the endless supply of dopamine that 137 million Instagram and 52 million Twitter followers provide.
We’re all recreational users. James is an addict. No different from Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe, Jemele Hill, and all the other celebrity influencers vetting their worldview through Silicon Valley algorithms.
James is going out of his way to take a dump on the Cowboys' owner to clean up the social media mess he made when he publicly criticized Kyrie Irving. Ripping Kyrie weakened LeBron’s supply of dopamine.
Let’s remember. A month ago, when the NBA’s power structure sought retribution for Irving’s vaccine defiance by labeling a tweet the first domino in a second Holocaust, social media influencers sided with their puppet masters against Irving.
James said at the time: “I believe what Kyrie did caused some harm to a lot of people. He has since … apologized. But he caused some harm, and I think it’s unfortunate. I don’t stand on the position to harm people when it comes to your voice or your platform or anything. So, it doesn’t matter what color your skin is, how tall you are, what position you are in. If you are promoting or soliciting or saying harmful things to any community that harm people, then I don’t respect it. I don’t condone it.”
Everyone, including Smith and Sharpe, followed LeBron’s lead. Unfortunately for them, social media users instantly saw through the Brooklyn Nets' and Adam Silver’s facade and recognized Irving’s right to free speech and right to freedom of religious association.
Black influencers exposed themselves as battery-backed useful idiots. They unintentionally revealed a truth about modern celebrity. The digital media age rejects adherence to a set of values and requires obedience to the whims of public opinion. Social media platforms control the whims of public opinion. With no values or consistent worldview to guide them, digital influencers botched their reaction to Irving’s harmless tweet.
LeBron’s forced comments about Jerry Jones are another attempt by James to establish a new position on Irving and win the approval of his social media followers. LeBron wants that good dope again.
He failed to stand by Kyrie when it mattered the most. That failure has damaged his ability to manipulate and influence black people at the behest of Nike, the Democrat Party, and his other global puppet masters.
Irving’s bold vaccine stance and the unjustified punishment he received for a tweet have positioned him as the modern-day Muhammad Ali, not LeBron James or Colin Kaepernick.
LeBron is Pookie. He’s dusty, thirsty, and fraudulent. Jerry Jones can’t save him.
Whitlock: Kyrie Irving, a superspreader of independent thought, returns to the NBA
Let’s say Kyrie Irving thought he was a woman rather than an Israelite.
Joe Biden would honor the NBA star with a Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Barack and Michelle Obama would host a gala at Martha’s Vineyard for the 12-year pro. The founders of Black Lives Matter would welcome the point guard to one of their mansions to discuss the brilliance of Karl Marx. ESPN would hand the Nets player multiple ESPY Awards for courage. The New York Times would write glowing feature stories. Hip-hop music executive Lyor Cohen would insist that Lil Nas(ty) X, Cardi B, and Jay-Z make a posse cut extolling Irving’s beauty. All the blue-check pundits pretending that Irving’s tweet of a movie poster was an existential threat to Jewish people would champion Irving as a historic trailblazer, and many of them would slide into his DMs.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver might go so far as paying Louis Farrakhan’s Fruit of Islam security force millions of dollars to protect Kyreece Irving.
Unfortunately, Kyrie Irving thinks he’s a Jew, not a woman. That’s dangerous. That’s aggressively discouraged in the NBA, which operates inside an American zeitgeist that aggressively polices the thoughts of black people.
So the Brooklyn Nets suspended Irving for eight games and apparently insisted he complete some sort of communist reeducation program. Sunday afternoon, before he was allowed to take the court against the Memphis Grizzlies, Irving apologized a third time for tweeting a poster promoting a documentary that claims to reveal the true genealogy of American black people.
“I just want to offer my deep apologies to all those who were impacted over these last few weeks, specifically my Jewish relatives, my black relatives, all races and cultures,” he said before scoring 14 points in a Brooklyn victory. “Feel like we all felt an impact, and I don’t stand for anything close to hate speech or anti-Semitism or anything that is ‘anti,’ going against the human race. I feel it was necessary for me to stand in this place and take accountability for my actions.”
Maybe we can all move on now. I think many in corporate media would love to. Their reaction to Irving has exposed the fraudulence of their revolutionary posturing and alleged desire to support the “next” Muhammad Ali.
They’ve been exposed as gatekeepers and overseers. Their job is to police the thoughts of black men and prevent the rise of another Ali, Malcolm X, or even Martin Luther King Jr.
The system rewards black men for claiming an allegiance to violent street gangs and penalizes black men who explore and/or legitimately adhere to a religious faith that supports male leadership.
Think about it. Had Irving retweeted the movie “Straight Outta Compton,” a biographical drama celebrating the satanic rise of Niggas with Attitude and gangsta rap music, there would be no controversy. Zero. The NFL would ask him to Crip-walk at halftime of the Super Bowl.
N.W.A. released two albums – "Straight Outta Compton" in 1988 and "Niggaz4Life" in 1991. The songs on both albums denigrate black people and promote immorality in every form. Corporate media used one song, “F*** tha Police,” to argue that N.W.A. was the West Coast version of Public Enemy. It’s a joke and a lie.
One song with a kernel of truth does not justify the immorality preached on every other song. We don’t apply that standard to other forms of art. Take, for instance, “Hebrews to Negroes.” The entire three-hour documentary must be disavowed because 10 minutes of it meet the Anti-Defamation League’s definition of anti-Semitism.
N.W.A.’s entire catalog meets any reasonable standard of anti-black denigration.
But we can celebrate Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Ren, and Yella. Kyrie must be punished. The double standard makes no sense unless you understand that popular culture seduces and requires black men to support their own demise.
Joe Biden says we’re not black unless we endorse the abortion of our seed, the empowerment of the LGBTQ Alphabet Mafia, and the worship of the matriarchy. We must hate Donald Trump, even though we spent decades celebrating him in rap songs.
I’m not a Hebrew Israelite. I’ve spent the past two weeks reading and talking about them, trying to get a better understanding of their beliefs. As best I can tell, their real agenda seems to be appealing to black men to live up to the laws and covenants spelled out in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Some of them appear to be belligerent and racist. I’ve met and engaged with belligerent and bigoted Christians. Racial idolatry plagues mankind and all religious sects.
I’ve yet to hear Kyrie Irving say anything that strikes me as bigoted. He tweeted a movie poster, and corporate media overreacted at the behest of people who, in my opinion, have grown tired of Irving taking independent actions that black men are not supposed to take.
Sunday night, following the Grizzlies-Nets game, a reporter asked Kyrie if he would take responsibility for the thousand or so Hebrew Israelites protesting outside the Barclay Center. Irving declined to answer the question.
Irving did not cause the protest. Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai caused the protest when he suspended Irving for tweeting a movie poster. Had Tsai and Adam Silver ignored Irving’s harmless tweet and respected his free speech, there would be no controversy.
Why didn’t they ignore Irving?
Because he could be a superspreader of independent thought. The puppet masters of popular culture don’t want any of us – black or white, Jew or gentile, rich or poor – waking up to how they restrict the freedoms granted to us by our Creator.
'Y'all gotta stop and open your eyes. You can't be that blind or stupid': Jason Whitlock reacts to Dave Chappelle's SNL monologue
Saturday’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” featured comedian Dave Chappelle, whose epic monologue about former president Donald Trump, Kyrie Irving, and Kanye West left the left confused.
The New York Times published an article that claimed Chappelle mocked Kanye and Kyrie. But Jason felt anyone who actually saw the episode might have had a different takeaway. “Fearless” contributor Shemeka Michelle and host Jason Whitlock broke down Chappelle’s jokes to determine if he’s a friend or foe of the canceled icons. Shemeka also helped Jason make sense of what the NYT published.
Whitlock added that Chappelle's monologue perfectly captured the lies perpetrated by the left that accuse Trump of being racist. "Y'all gotta stop and open your eyes. You can't be that blind or stupid," Whitlock said.
\u201cY'all gotta stop and open your eyes. You can't be that blind or stupid. #DaveChapelle #DonaldTrump\u201d— Jason Whitlock (@Jason Whitlock) 1668470280
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