By Dr. Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jan 8th 2010 1:09PM
Filed under: Basketball
I met
Stephen A. Smith a few times when doing his ESPN show. I liked the guy from the beginning, and I still do. I do not say the same thing about
Jason Whitlock, a Fox sports writer who doesn't do a very good job of intelligently expressing opinions that go beyond the ridiculous rhetoric of guys like
Rush Limbaugh or
Glenn Beck.
Stephen A. Smith had it right when he described
Gilbert Arenas as contributing to genocide in the black community. I also agreed with Rev.
Al Sharpton's position when I spoke to him this week. Part of the reason I founded the
Athlete Liberation and Academic Reform Movement (ALARM) was to help redefine what it means to be a black man and
black athlete in America. Black men are not gun-toting thugs who mismanage their money and remain illiterate. We are leaders, thinkers and protectors of our communities. Gilbert Arenas, in his most recent behavior, represents none of that. Here is what Stephen A. Smith had to say: