{"id":571357,"date":"2021-06-23T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571357"},"modified":"2021-06-23T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:36:40","slug":"jason-whitlock-statues-of-george-floyd-are-racist-need-to-be-torn-down-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jason-whitlock-statues-of-george-floyd-are-racist-need-to-be-torn-down-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Whitlock: Statues Of George Floyd Are \u2018Racist,\u2019 \u2018Need To Be Torn Down Immediately\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjason-whitlock-statues-of-george-floyd-are-racist-need-to-be-torn-down-immediately%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571357&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/George-Floyd-statue.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Sports reporter and commentator Jason Whitlock said statues recently erected to memorialize George Floyd are \u201coffensive\u201d to black people and should be torn down.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock ripped into the \u201csatanic cabal of cultural elites\u201d promoting Floyd as a hero of social justice in a column published Tuesday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/op-ed\/whitlock-veneration-of-george-floyd-is-racist-and-must-be-stopped\">The Blaze<\/a>. The narrative and meaning attached to Floyd\u2019s life and death are part of a \u201cMarxist overhaul\u201d of American culture, Whitlock says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deification of George Floyd harms black people and America,\u201d Whitlock states. \u201cGeorge Floyd was a victim \u2014 of his drug addiction, self-destructive behavior, and Derek Chauvin\u2019s misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFloyd is not Jesus. He\u2019s not Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, or Medgar Evers, black men who died tragically in service of promoting racial fairness,\u201d Whitlock continues. \u201cFloyd isn\u2019t Crispus Attucks, the first man killed in America\u2019s Revolutionary War. Floyd isn\u2019t Emmett Till, an innocent victim of anti-black bigotry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-about-power-black-theologian-voddie-t-baucham-exposes-demonic-ideology-behind-crt-blm-anti-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018This Is About Power\u2019: Black Theologian Voddie T. Baucham Exposes \u2018Demonic Ideology\u2019 Behind CRT, BLM, Antiracism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, George Floyd statues were unveiled in Brooklyn, New York, and Newark, New Jersey, commemorating Floyd\u2019s life and death. The New York statue is six feet tall and <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/10809446\/\">consists<\/a> of a likeness of Floyd\u2019s head on a pedestal. The New Jersey statue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/newark-new-jersey-installs-700-pound-bronze-statue-of-george-floyd\">weighs<\/a> roughly 700 pounds and depicts Floyd in a \u201cwife-beater\u201d shirt sitting on a park bench.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock says the New Jersey statue is particularly offensive and derogatory to black people. \u201cI\u2019m shocked the sculptor didn\u2019t put a crack pipe in one hand and a 40-ounce of beer in the other,\u201d Whitlock says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe statues of Floyd need to be torn down immediately. They\u2019re racist,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re designed to symbolize that America turns black men into lazy, criminal drug addicts. I reject that in the name of Frederick Douglass, Richard Allen, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Ben Carson, Nat Turner, and so many more. I reject it on behalf of my father, my brother, and so many of my friends.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock also called out a number of politicians, activists, media personalities, and others, accusing them of using Floyd as a \u201cprop\u201d and a \u201cpawn\u201d to push their own agenda. Whitlock says:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"44\">\n<p><em>The politicians, activists, celebrity influencers, and media personalities \u2014 the exploiters of George Floyd \u2014 are determined to transform an amateur porn star, violent criminal, and drug abuser into a national hero. They do so because they have no respect for black men or black people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yes, I\u2019m talking about Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Shaun King, LeBron James, Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Jemele Hill, Michael Eric Dyson, Al Sharpton, Joy Reid, Joe Scarborough, Chris Cuomo, Jack Dorsey, Colin Kaepernick, and the editors and writers at the New York Times, the Washington Post, Buzzfeed, and the Daily Beast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The entire satanic cabal of cultural elites, both white and black, are using George Floyd and other forms of racial division to overthrow a flawed system of governance that has outperformed any other system ever invented.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-to-host-george-floyds-family-at-white-house-on-anniversary-of-his-death\">Biden To Host George Floyd\u2019s Family At White House On Anniversary Of His Death<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports reporter and commentator Jason Whitlock said statues recently erected to memorialize George Floyd are \u201coffensive\u201d to black people and should be torn down.Whitlock ripped into the \u201csatanic cabal of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281062,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/George-Floyd-statue.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Jason Whitlock: Statues Of George Floyd Are \u2018Racist,\u2019 \u2018Need To Be Torn Down Immediately\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/George-Floyd-statue.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Jason Whitlock: Statues Of George Floyd Are \u2018Racist,\u2019 \u2018Need To Be Torn Down Immediately\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}