More Black on Black Crime?

The feud between Philedelphia Eagle Quarterback Donavan McNabb and Dallas Cowboy Wide Receiver Terrell Owens was plastered all over CNN SI, ESPN and every sportstalk radio show across the country. Of course allegations that McNabb put his two cents in regard to T.O.'s request for more money from the Eagles and mixed reports that both Owens and McNabb were having an East Coast / West Coast feud over whose ego was bigger. And of course T.O., fired both barrels at McNabb by echoing comments made inside the Eagles locker-room that their All Pro Quarterback ran out of gas and was struggling to get his breath in effort to rally and score a touchdown that could have dethroned the then defending Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots. Compound that with when Owens was asked if he preferred to play with Brett Favre, he smiled and said, "Yes." An obvious diss toward his former quarterback who was nursing a "sports" hernia.

Then word had it that the locker-room was divided along loyalty lines, and team in-fighting occured. T.O. and former defensive end Hugh Douglass got into a scrap, when Douglas came into the locker-room and asked who was faking an injury. Owens took exception and a little scuffle occured. And then we got this from McNabb's father, "What he [Owens] did is like a black on black crime." So there you have it, T.O.'s comments were equivalent to bullets from an AK-47 from a young black male between the age of 17-24 towards another black male.

I hated to disagree with the statement because what Mr. McNabb's son was going through is nothing close to a black on black crime. So imagine my horror when I was listening to the "2 Live Stews" and they were talking about the firing of Jason Whitlock from ESPN and ESPN's Page 2. Apparently Whitlock was fired for comments made to a sports blog in regard to his feelings about certain ESPN personalities. Whitlock, as far as I know, is never short of words and didn't hold back, blasted Mike Lupica after Lupica and other columnist that make up the Sports Reporters on ESPN went ape crap that Whitlock was not part of the "Burn Barry at the Stake" mob. And next Whitlock fired at another columnist, named "Scoop" Jackson. Whitlock took exception to one of Jackson's columns in regard to the disparity of Black editors in our country's sports pages. Jackson said he was speaking at a school and told the kids that they have a better chance of making the NBA than being a sports editors. Whitlock disagreed and said Jackson should have been more responsible with that comment and that Jackson was peddling some type of victimization of our black youth. As a matter of fact, Jackson ended his column by saying the title of his memoirs would be "Surviving As A Raison In A Bowl of Milk."

For a few months, it stayed quiet until Whitlock's interview with the blog. He said Jackson was no Ralph Wiley and that Wiley never "Bojangled" the way Scoop is. That's when the fit hit the shan. Whitlock was fired and took the high road in his criticisms of ESPN.

Scoop on the other hand, went on the 2 Live Stews and said, "What this man did, was a black on black crime." Huh?

Scoop what Whitlock did was, yes, insulting. But don't take his words and equate them to a problem that is plaquing our black communities in this country. Scoop, through the grace of God you were able to read those comments, react and go on about your business. What victims of a black on black crime get is the horror, pain and eventual death. Life ends!

What Whitlock did can be discussed over a beer and ribs, since J-Whit is in Kansas City. What the person who actually commits the black on black crime gets is either life in prison cell and eventually the death penalty. Life ends!

So this is what happens when one black man criticizes another...he's charged of commiting a black on black crime?

Interesting.