As liberals have expanded the battlefield of the culture war to sports, professional and college, award-winning sportswriter Jason Whitlock has been a lonely voice.
Whitlock, who is black, has not hesitated in attacking liberal nostrums and the haughtiness in which they are handed down by our progressive betters, especially on matters of race.
A couple of years ago in an interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, for example, Whitlock said a black person could be “kicked out of the black race” for suggesting President Donald Trump had a good idea. “Liberalism now is like a cigarette. It’s been marketed to us the same as the cigarette — fashionable, sophisticated,” he also said. “It’s supposed to be liberating but I think it needs a surgeon general’s warning: Hazardous to your families and all the values you were taught as a child.”
Most recently Whitlock drew flak for suggesting that Black Lives Matter was the opposite side of the coin from the Ku Klux Klan.
But of late, Whitlock also gave an interview to conservative host Glenn Beck and suggested the Republicans may have to look for a black conservative candidate to fight back against the rising tide of woke liberalism.
He also had someone in mind.
During the session with Beck, Whitlock left no doubt about where he stands, saying his values were always conservative.
He added that his mission is to “reawaken black people to what we are losing spiritually by believing anything that is labeled conservative is against us,” and to reject the idea that a “political progressive, left-wing identity” is the most important thing about them.
Along those lines, Whitlock criticized Nike and professional athletes for a too-cozy relationship with the human rights abusers running China.
Whitlock also said that “the conservative principles taught in the Bible are the greatest thing in the world, and I refuse to dismiss our ignore them.”
He also expressed disappointment that Barack Obama, as president, was not more of a racial uniter, and not a stronger advocate for two-parent nuclear families in the black community. And he further maintained that Trump was cheated in the 2020 election.
Noting that cancel culture has been pursuing him for years, Whitlock said, “I don’t have a right, among white liberals, to believe the things I believe.”
When Beck asked how the country could get out of this hellish PC prison liberals have boxed the nation in, Whitlock suggested the GOP should look for a black leader.
He maintained that liberals’ focus on Trump for four years had distracted the public from the true threats – such as Chinese aggression.
To counteract that, Whitlock said, “I want someone who can get us to focus.”
When Beck asked who, Whitlock replied, “It may take someone black. To take the race thing off the table, because that’s one of their biggest tools is race, race, race – everybody’s racist.
If you say you’re against China, well that racist. It may take someone black.”
“There’s got to be somebody out there who’s had enough, black, white, Hispanic,” said Whitlock. Somebody like Colin Powell, 20 years younger, he suggested.
When Beck pressed Whitlock again on who that might be, he answered Tony Dungy.
Dungy is the former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts. Dungy, the winningest coach in Bucs history, brought the Bucs to within one victory of a Super Bowl.
He was then dismissed and went to Indy, where he won an NFL championship with Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning
“He’s a great American, a great Christian, great family man, very measured. We just had a reality-TV star, why not a football coach?” Whitlock added.
Beck seemed to agree, saying the president’s job is similar to that of a coach.
The only problem Whitlock saw: “I’m sure he’s gonna say I don’t want to be president.”