100 Quotes by Jason Whitlock

I'm a sports columnist who specializes in social commentary.

People who commit crimes are generally reluctant to tell on themselves.

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

The worst thing to be in America and anywhere on the planet is poor.

As the lone black host at two different all-sports stations, black callers and listeners dominated my show. Black advertisers did not. The show was financially supported primarily by white businesses, and the largest demographic for listener growth was white males.

As someone who has an affinity and passion for discussing racial and cultural issues, I made it a point to only discuss those issues when they really mattered and not turn the shows into Malcolm X Unplugged.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Southern, conservative minister who believed in the American promise. His dream was patriotic and traditional. Family, work, self-determination and religion comprised his core values.

If all of my instructions to staff during the seven years I hosted a radio show were written down and examined, I'd sound a lot like Bruce Levenson. Hell, I might sound much worse. The path to inclusion and diversity is not paved with precise, pretty words.

Modern political liberalism, particularly its racial orthodoxy, is the science of excuse-making, the training of black minds for failure.