March 18, 2011, - 12:13 am
Jalen Rose to Grant Hill: Blacks w/ Both Parents Are “Uncle Toms,” “Bitches;” Jalen Rose Charter School
Two new charter schools in Detroit bear the name of famous Black men. One is the Dr. Benjamin Carson School of Science and Medicine, named for the brilliant, renowned brain surgeon who is a light to all American kids, regardless of race. The other, the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, is named for a former NBA basketball player who said that Black kids whose parents are educated and married to each other are Uncle Toms. Which school would you want your kids to attend? If you are one of the many brainless zombies who watched the “Fab Five” thug-life glorification documentary on ESPN over the weekend, you might sadly prefer the latter. It seems the American public has already made that determination.

Jalen Rose Called Grant Hill “Uncle Tom,” “Bitch” for Having Married, Educated Parents
Last weekend, ESPN broadcast its most highly-rated documentary ever. The show was about the famed “Fab Five,” University of Michigan basketball players (including Jalen Rose), some of whom accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a bookie, Ed Martin, who lived just around the block from where I grew up. This violated their status as amateurs and college student-athletes. I took special offense to the documentary, especially because of the continued fascination with thugs–Black AND White–who were given everything and it still wasn’t enough. Now, they feel entitled and have giant chips on their shoulders, calling everyone a racist. I had my own not-very-pleasant encounter with the Fab Five thugs. More about that later on in this post.
Probably the most disgusting part of ESPN’s Fab Five documentary was the part in which college and pro basketball player Grant Hill–a wholesome upstanding player–was maligned by Fab Five member Jalen Rose (who doubled as producer of the documentary). Rose said Hill was an “Uncle Tom” and a “Bitch” because both his parents were married to each other and are educated and hard-working. Yeah, that’s the attitude to give to Black kids in America, Jalen. Because, hey, we don’t want the ten percent of Black Kids still born with two parents and an intact family to get the wrong idea about what’s hip and what’s “Uncle Tom”ish. Oh, and by the way, no biggie that Rose founded a tax-funded charter school bearing his name in the City of Detroit. Good to know the guy who wants his name on a school doesn’t think the Black kids who populate it should be married and educated because that would constitute Uncle Tomism.
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