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It’s too dangerous sports activities analyst Stephen A. Smith has such seething contempt for Jason Whitlock as a result of if he didn’t, the 2 might bond over their whiny opinions that no person requested for about Serena Williams C-walking on the NFL stage throughout Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
Whereas Smith was bloviating about how he would “divorce” Williams for making the Tremendous Bowl look to clap again at Drake, who she briefly dated prior to now — which solely resulted in half the web reminding Smith that he’s single, that Williams would by no means have married him, and that the one factor he ever divorced was his hairline — Whitlock was doing his normal “I coronary heart Black lady hate” factor and saying all of the issues about Serena’s C-walk that he didn’t say about Snoop Dogg when he did it in full Crip regalia on the NFL stage just some years prior. (That isn’t to say that the self-loathing Uncle Ruckus acolyte doesn’t hate Black males too, however nothing will get his sambo senses flaring like a assured and completed Black lady who doesn’t care about his respectability politics.)
Anyway, Whitlock predictably responded to Williams’ halftime present cameo by pulling up his cotton-picking bootstraps and bashing the tennis legend for being “inappropriate,” suggesting she ought to apologize for the show and mentioning her eldest sister, Yetunde Value, having been shot by a gang member, which could have been related if the C-walk hadn’t lengthy been advanced from a dance related to the Crips to a popular culture fad that has been normalized within the mainstream for years.
Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, defended his spouse from her critics, together with Smith and Whitlock.
“A few of y’all don’t know how criticized Serena was for this identical dance at Wimbledon 13 years in the past, and it reveals… That is greater than the music,” Ohanian tweeted.
Whitlock, after all, had an issue with that too, calling Ohanian a “true Beta” and a “simp” for being “mad at me reasonably than the spouse Crip strolling and nonetheless excited about Drake.”
What’s fascinating — I imply, moreover Whitlock being a near-60-year-old man utilizing phrases like “simp” and “beta” like he’s nonetheless a younger school dude-bro begging the white boys to play hacky-sac with him — is that each Whitlock and Smith appear to be hung up on Williams clapping again at her ex when she needs to be centered on her husband, which ignores the truth that Drake put lyrics in a music that took pictures at each Serena and her husband. So, even when Williams’ look on that stage was about getting again at her ex (which fully ignores, amongst different issues, that she’s from Compton and Kendrick Lamar is all about all issues Compton), logically, her clapback would have been on her personal behalf in addition to her husbands.
Possibly that half went over Smith and Whitlock’s heads as a result of they hadn’t heard the music “Center of the Ocean” during which Drake instructed Williams’, “Your husband a groupie,” or possibly it simply doesn’t actually matter as a result of Smith and Whitlock are two gossipy hen home negroes who’re 57 years previous however interact within the type of chatter that’s usually reserved for youngsters in highschool cafeterias.
“I get it—you’re 57, and life didn’t end up the best way you imagined. That type of disappointment have to be exhausting,” Ohanian commented underneath Whitlock’s tweet. “You’re the embodiment of peaked in highschool, spending many years chasing validation from strangers by way of Likes and Digital Hugs, solely to seek out that no quantity of exterior approval fills the void. I wouldn’t want that on anybody.”
“Criticism solely fuels your sufferer advanced, reinforcing the comforting delusion that there’s some grand conspiracy towards you and your ‘courageous concepts’—when in actuality, you’ve simply bought horrible takes. It’s a cycle: outrage, backlash, self-pity, repeat,” he added. “It is a lonely highway. There’s nonetheless time to rewrite the ending — begin by engaged on your self first. You’ll discover that when you get up each morning making an attempt to be a bit higher, a bit extra curious, you gained’t have time for irrational hating — you’ll be too busy successful.”
Whitlock responded by reposting Ohanian’s feedback and asking, “Why is Serena Williams’ husband fussing at me? Why not take it up with Drake? Don’t be mad at me as a result of Serena can’t recover from Drake. This is not sensible!” (Once more, Drake dissed BOTH of them, you sunken-placed fool.)
Then Whitlock posted a photoshopped pic of Serena dressed as a Crip full with face tattoos.
Once more, Whitlock will need to have been afraid Snoop Dogg was going to drive-by pimp slap him for criticizing a person who was really a Crip for Crip strolling on the NFL stage as a result of he didn’t have any of this smoke for the Lengthy Seaside rapper. Or possibly Whitlock is solely a misogynoir-fueled coward who picks on Black girls as a result of he is aware of he can’t struggle.
Thoughts you, Whitlock was one of many many voices blasting Williams after she celebrated her victory over Maria Sharapova by C-walking on the Olympics in 2012.
“What Serena did was akin to cracking a tasteless, X-rated joke inside a church. Serena deserved to be known as out. What she did was immature and classless,” Whitlock stated on the time. (12 years later, the identical man used his personal platform to make lewd feedback about Fox Sports activities host Pleasure Taylor’s “rack” whereas addressing Taylor’s involvement in a sexual harassment lawsuit. However certain, Williams was “tasteless.”)
It’s value mentioning that if Whitlock, Smith or anybody else actually wished to know why Serena was C-walking on that stage, they may have simply requested her — as a result of she had a solution for that.
“When @kendricklamar and staff known as and was like ‘we’ve been making an attempt to do one thing eternally, what about this? We liked your crip stroll on the Olympics after you gained the gold medal,’” Williams posted on Instagram. “I’m like Tremendous Bowl? Are you severe? When on the planet would I ever be capable to dance at a superbowl? (By no means) let’s do it! I knew my successful dance after the @olympics would repay sooner or later. Finish of story.”
Precisely.
Finish. Of. Story.
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