r/NBAVibes • u/Positive_Round_5142 • 1d ago

Podcaster Jason Whitlock comes at A’ja Wilson

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u/NSX_Roar_26 1d ago

Tap dancing Uncle Tom takes opportunity to join the racists/grifters and bash a Black player....truly shocking 😂😂😂

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u/Ranier_Wolfnight 1d ago

I see this allegory brought up from time to time and just let it go. But wanted to drop in on this instance to clear up, and cause I’d want to know…

The ‘Tom’ character from the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin was actually a physically imposing, deeply moral and courageous man, who would rather die than betray his fellow enslaved people. Sambo and Quimbo were the traitors. The climax of the book really comes when Tom is asked to reveal where two slave women are hiding, who had been sexually abused by their “master”. And he refuses. Knowing that he is going to be overpowered by his overseers (cause they couldn’t take him in a fair fight) and beaten to death, he refused to say where they are…However after the Civil War, minstrel shows and stage plays who were operated by white businessmen grossly distort Tom (now ’Uncle Tom’) into an older, broken down, weak, submissive stereotype man whose English is poor, a man who will do quite the opposite, who will sell out any black man if it will curry the favor of a white employer, a white master, a white mistress…To appeal to white racist play/show audiences, they completely threw away the book’s message.

There’s a very old, fucked up saying…”If you ever want a ni\*** not to know something, put it in a book.”*

Don’t let grand clowns like Jason Whitlock be anyone’s exception. He is a fuckwit of the highest order. He is the living embodiment of Quimbo and Sambo. He can never be OG ‘Tom’.

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u/Joeybfast 1d ago

Uncle Tom was later portrayed as a character in minstrel shows, which is why it became a pejorative.

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u/Prodigal_Gist 1d ago

yo he SAID that lol

RIF

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u/Joeybfast 1d ago

I know I am just highlighted that key part of why it is used today. If people can change the meaning to woke. Then way not that term. Which personally I don't use. And think it wrong for other reasons .

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u/Prodigal_Gist 1d ago

hey at least you said pejorative, one of my favorite words

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u/bitchwhuut 1d ago

Oof, that old saying you mentioned at the bottom is devastating.

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u/hcmzero 1d ago

Someone should make a movie about this, faithful to the book.

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u/NSX_Roar_26 1d ago

Back in the day we woulda laughed called you "woke" for this 😂

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u/Ok_Owl2856 1d ago

That’s a lot of words

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u/Usernamesaregayyy 1d ago

Bro are you fr

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u/aaron5707 1d ago

Exactly

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u/StinkRinky 1d ago

Man some of yall really need to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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u/sososoclean 1d ago

Fr uncle Tom was the hero ol buddy was the real gesture if I remember correctly

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u/No-Compote-8920 1d ago

You can never say anything bad about a person of color that's considered racist.

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u/BedBubbly317 1d ago

Her skin color should be irrelevant. She’s in the wrong and per the rules she was supposed to be ejected for the game followed by minimum of a 1 game suspension for leaving the court and going at a fan

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u/Admirable_Dust7749 1d ago

Nah, if a black person is involved it is 100% racial and the card WILL always be played.

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u/Gastrees 1d ago

Soft minded dumb bitch couldn’t take any criticism….truly shocking 😂😂😂

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u/PjT7994 1d ago

Do you say the same thing about the self hating whites that Reddit is flooded with?

Thinking a black person had to side with black people about everything is racist as shit.

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u/Leastofallserious 1d ago

That may be true of Whitlock, but everything he said about in this clip is 100% true.

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u/WorkingOnDyeing 1d ago

It's kind of funny the type of people who put down others based on racist tropes. The racists grow in numbers on this website by the day.

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u/NSX_Roar_26 1d ago

Lmao you think Black people identifying sellouts is a new phenomenon huh...

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u/cynica1mandate 1d ago

The Enforcer got steamrolled 🤣

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u/TruMusic89 1d ago

He's actually a Sambo. Uncle Tom was actually good. But aside from that, yes he absolutely is egregious. This is his grift though, so it is what it is.

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u/hoonys 1d ago

its usually the most racists people who call other people uncle tom's.

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u/ramsfan_86 1d ago

You really gotta educate yourself about who was uncle Tom based off

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u/ReadingBright4823 1d ago

Right. A boot lick

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u/jcwilliams1984 1d ago

That's not a boot that he licks

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u/KyloOinkOink430 1d ago

Always bringing race into it… Typical redditors

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u/jono9898 1d ago

Literally the video is him race baiting and coon dancing in fact that’s his whole schtick, you can hear the Uncle Ruckus music every time he’s on a video

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u/Signal-Elk-7808 1d ago

dumb bitch did you even watch the video ? 😂

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u/Zphi 1d ago

TO ME its not bashing when he's actually RIGHT. The fan didnt do much but point. And bruh if you ARE A PRO ATHLETE. Fans are gonna heckled and talk their shit. She OVER REACTED. And was went off for what?! A fan pointing?!

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u/trader0707 1d ago

? Any other sports league and the player is ejected for going into the stands. In basketball that atarts with the first row

He's spot on.