Serious sports writer Jason Whitlock.
First, some brief history for those unfamiliar with the story.
This past Saturday, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, killed his 22-year-old girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, at their home. He shot his girlfriend, who was planning to leave him, nine times in the torso and neck. Their 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, was unharmed. Belcher then drove about five miles to the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot, and shot himself in the head after speaking briefly to various KC Chiefs coaches.
A tragedy for sure, but in a very small way.
However, American media and the Left are making this a major issue, with the DEM/MSM paying the situation far more attention than it deserves, far overshadowing the Benghazi attacks where four Americans were killed on foreign soil.
First, FoxSports writer Jason Whitlock said this on a CNN-related podcast:
“Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world when sports lends itself to that and try to open people’s eyes.”
“You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture — I believe the NRA is the new KKK [My emphasis. – BZ] . And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don’t have our best interests [at heart].”
“I think it’s obvious if you’ve traveled abroad, and traveled to countries where they have legitimate gun laws, that we don’t have to have what we have in America, where people somehow think a gun enhances their liberty, and that people somehow think a gun makes them safer,” he continued.
“It just doesn’t. A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene. And uh, you know, if you don’t have a gun, you drive home. You know, kids listening to some loud music, you don’t like it, you go home and complain to your wife. But when you have a gun, you open fire, potentially, and take the life of a child.”
That said, Bob Costas felt it incumbent upon himself to take up the issue as well during this past NBC Sunday Night Football game involving the Eagles and Cowboys.
Frankly, Costas was condescending and opportunistic. If I wished to know his opinions, I’d read whatever blog or column he wrote. Otherwise, I dislike being held captive to another Leftist journalist who spouts unsubstantiated pablum aimed at the Lowest Common Denominator viewer during a football game.
Whitlock was bad enough. Costas put the silliness over the top.
Let me cut to the proverbial chase, if I might.
I enjoy football. I played it briefly in high school, as a center. I enjoy watching it. My interest in football harkens back to the 60s when my favorite team became the Green Bay Packers. Because I liked their uniforms.
But to link the NRA to the KKK is simply ignorance at its finest, with an extra heaping helping of Victimology, coupled with the continual bleating of blacks as lacking any control whatsoever of “their” individual or collective destiny. This racist view diminishes blacks and makes them nothing more than empty-headed pawns in the game of everyone but themselves. And that is the furthest from the truth.
Let’s first take race out of the formula. Let’s just examine the issue of guns. If Jovan Belcher hadn’t possessed a gun, and was the same psycho he became, he would have used a nice Louisville Slugger. Or perhaps the nearby table lamp. Or perhaps a machete he’d recently purchased from KnifeDepot.com. Or perhaps a Cadillac Escalade or a GM Yukon Denali. Or perhaps a rock. Because:
Here’s an Important Safety Tip: crazy people are actually crazy. And pissed people are actually pissed. Human beings are by their very nature flawed and sometimes critically flawed. They are also emotional and sometimes unthinkingly, reactionarily emotional.
That said, Jason Whitlock has chosen to take the situation above and past an emotional issue into a racial issue. He equates our Constitutional Second Amendment to an embracement of the Ku Klux Klan. An organization, by the way, started by Democrats — you know, those loving persons who opposed Lincoln in terms of granting black slaves their freedom. Try reading some history.
Poor chops, that. Too base, too “convenient” and, in truth, too wrong.
Here is the truth that few if any will write or speak of:
Popular young black male culture is that of a dead culture. It is a losing and a bankrupt “culture.” Please note the quotes.
When young black males start valuing themselves and begin to strive towards excellence instead of the LCD in terms of emotions and guns and turf and issues that mean nothing to anyone else, then perhaps I’ll start increasing their personal value.
Bottom line: let’s put the murder/suicide of Jovan Belcher in perspective. He is only one of hundreds of black males killed at their own hands or the hands of their own. This year.
Further: he possessed advantages not afforded to literally hundreds or thousands of likely-abled young black males in this country. And, with that, he still decided to collapse his personal House of Cards.
So, no, frankly, I don’t cry one tear for Jovan Belcher. He made his bed. He needs to be discarded. Move on. Nothing to see here.
So tell me: WHY is it that HE is “more important” than the other hundreds of black males, killed daily, at the hand of OTHER black males — ?
It isn’t a matter of guns.
Ladies and gentlemen: it is a matter of a bankrupt culture of depravity, violence, turf.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Belcher was coddled and nurtured and told what a “wonderful player” he was. He believed his own press and then took the incredibly SELFISH way out.
The true story should actually be: why do young black males have such an absolutely bankrupt and virulently violent culture? And why do they do their best to continue this culture? Besides them, who is responsible? I would suggest: the bulk of no-load, non-judgmental excuse-providing Leftist Caucasoids. GOWPs, all of them. Guilty, Over-educated White Persons.
Don’t cry for Jovan Belcher, that dead asshole.
Cry for the mother of his child. And that child itself.
BZ
I’m not crying for ANY of them… A thug life leads to a thug ending, and the g/f likely knew he was full of bad wiring… Just another day in the ‘hood, just a bit higher quality ‘hood..
I’ve seen it for years and years and years in law enforcement. Many women just loooooove Bad Guys.
Then it shocks them — SHOCKS them, I tell you — when they turn ugly and violent.
BZ
The Only argument I’ve heard all day from liberpukes is “If he didn’t have a gun!” I counter with “What if is girlfriend had a gun?” Maybe she’d be alive!.. Betting she voted for Obama. Betting she votes DEMOCRAT fully if she voted at all. Betting that these stupid fks who think the gun is the problem don’t blame cars for wrecks or spoons for making them fat.
It is being revealed he had a history of domestic violence.
With booze and drugs and his history, it’s no surprise.
The press is bleating “he took too many hits as a football player.”
That’s certainly a convenient justification.
Truth: he was a violent asshole. A thug.
BZ
What the f### is the difference, 9 bullet holes or 9 stab wounds. You know damn well if he wanted to kill her, not having a gun would not have presented a problem.
That freaking idiot Bob Costas is about as dense as a brick. What in hell was he talking about, no violence overseas? Can’t that moron pick up a paper and read it? Plenty of violence, just not so much self defense is the only difference. I’m so sick of the looney leftard mentality in this country I just want to go and PUKE!
Right. No violence overseas.
None.
BZ
Nailed it, BZ. To say that I’m tired of hearing about black victimhood is a gross understatement. What a wonderful fiction it is to dream about a nation whose citizens take responsibility for their own lives (and actions).
When true values are endorsed by the young black male culture instead of gangsta thuggery, I may dredge up some sympathy.
I’m not holding my breath. I see it every day.
BZ
He was pampered, coddled, and free to do what he wanted… And when he finally DID something that his hind brain realized he couldn’t get out of, he took the coward’s way out… One more statistic, and yes the REAL loser is the child who now has NO parents.
It’s a story I see every day in law enforcement. It’s more than common.
And: what makes THIS guy’s death ANY different from any other young black male death? Why is HE any more important?
BZ
Very simply, there are people who take responsibility for themselves. There are people who don’t. As an example of black people taking responsibility for themselves, may I suggest the Deacons for Defense and Justice?
Thug life? Ever see people working so hard at being losers?
The thing I find so difficult to understand: WHY is it that success and achievement are such alien concepts as to have so many young black males embrace the precise opposite which leads, altogether too many times, to brutal death?
BZ
I haven’t heard any mention if he had a CCW. Has anybody else? Did he have the necessary documentation to own said gun?
Good question. I have not read anything of that point.
BZ
Doesn’t the 2nd amendment grant him that right?
Ideally, yes. On a day-to-day realistic basis, it doesn’t. But I still don’t “get” — WHY is it that the highest population centers with the strictest of gun laws possible STILL have the greatest number of gun crime in the nation — ?
ANYone able to answer that one — ?
BZ
Can’t much more than what you have said BZ, the next illegal thing will be a 34oz basball bat, a salad fork, or how come now one really bitches about all the ALCOHOLICS and their 3 ton motor vehicles, lets just outlaw the motor vehicle, and the hooch that they drink…just a thought…
You can still have an open bottle in a car in Texas? Or has that been outlawed? In Fornicalia, you cannot.
Sooner or later, in a PC society, we’ll simply have to outlaw thoughts. And outlaw the First Amendment.
BZ
Excellent post. Thank you!
It would be interesting to know which countries this sports ‘journalist’ has visited. In how many of them did a subculture of violence and disrespect for traditional values exist? How many of them had cultures with strong family values?
I grew up many decades ago. People were not afraid to say what they thought, political correctness did not yet exist, home invasions and drive-by shootings and random mass shootings were virtually unheard of except perhaps in big cities and were the stuff of nightmares, not the nightly news. There was more respect and civility in evidence and there was more safety. Not because of guns. Because of the culture. Over the years America has changed. What was considered normal is now deemed racist or old fashioned or irrelevant or sexist or you name it.
The issue is not, or should not be, guns and their availability. If someone wants to kill, he or she will find a weapon. I live in a country where guns are not common. Murders, and sometimes multiple murders, still occur, by ax, by hammer, by a piece of wood, by the perpetrator’s hands, by scythe and yes, even by a rock. Guns are not the cause of murder. People are the cause. And people are the product of their culture. Until these puffed up journalists and community leaders develop the intelligence to really see the problem and the courage to actually address the root issue, nothing will change.
Abigail, first, thank you very much for visiting, thanks for taking the time to comment, and please return.
I would be interested from which country you source. And how are your laws different, and your culture?
And you NAILED the BIG issue:
“Until these puffed up journalists and community leaders develop the intelligence to really see the problem and the courage to actually address the root issue, nothing will change.”
NO ONE in the USA wants to even touch on this problem except to throw cash in its general direction and then look away. No one wants to appear “racist” by stating the obvious.
Until this country can even face the truth, there won’t be REAL solutions.
BZ
Costas Crap, that’s all.
Blacks are showing they animals. Yes low IQ homo sapiens.
Try and train them, they will bite.
If you took ALL the NFL coaches, and ALL High School principals,, and put them in ONE room, gave them truth serum, ALL of them would say exactly the same,,, that blacks are violent, low IQ, and hazardous to all other human beings on Earth.
Before football came popular, black males were trained to fight “one on one”by the owners of Cotton Gins, Cotton farmers.
Most owners were white, but their were Black owners too, that kept fighters.
As a 10 year old in Waxahachie, Texas I watched these fights regularly,,,as my Uncle was the Cotton Gin Owner.
But, when in World War 2, blacks were very poor fighters.
Same in Korea.
Same in Viet-Nam.
Now take Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Newark,, or any big city with a high percentage of blacks, and you will find killing by blacks the highest in history,,,and will get worse.
SO, you tell me how to stop this crap.
I tried before I retired.
Now, I stay absolutely AWAY anywhere Blacks live or congregate.
I’m a tired, old, angry, pissed off LEO, and will let the young ones do the “deed”.