Jalen Rose vs. Grant Hill: Stop It, Already

Dear Jalen:

I just listened, er, attempted to listen, to your "analysis" before the Knicks/Magic game. It was all painful, high-pitched ebonic nonsense, like chalk on a blackboard. Instead of calling Grant Hill racist names, you should have been taking English 101, the class you evidently skipped at U. if Michigan.____________

Grant, please retire REAL soon so you can replace Jalen on ESPN and save the English language ... and our ears.

So we can drop it after you stop writing about it. Got it.

Hilarious.

Hated and thought are words that are in past tense. Jalen hated duke and the black players there and he thought they were uncle toms. Doesn't mean that's how he feels now. It was very clear that he was speaking on how he felt when he was a teenager. Jalen even stated that it should come to no surprise to any players how he felt about them, because he told them on the court. I'm pretty sure between the 4 meetings between Jalen and Hill in college that Jalen mentioned his dislike or even hatred of Hill and his team.

Great blog on the Rose v. Hill debate. Also highlights aspects of Black America that need to be addressed even within the sports context.

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Mr. Barra, I started watching the documentary but had to stop. It may have been obvious to you but it was not obvious to me that Jalen Rose was talking about how he felt as a teenager. I remember those years and I for one was very impressed with the "Fab 5", as well as in awe of their talent. I am sorry they went through what they did but frankly I don't remember all of the things they mentioned. I only remember being so impressed with the fact that these young men were "freshmen" I have to agree that you for one are "adding fuel to the flames" when you speak of Grant Hill as "a little irresponsible......" .If Jalen Rose wanted to talk of his feelings and not make it appear as if he still felt that way he should have begun the documentary with a statement, "I am going to say how I felt at that point in my life......". I had every intention of watching that documentary but after 10 minutes said "no way" and turned it off.

Hey, Jalen, by your standards, is Obama authentically black?

Guess not: Obama knows who his parents are, speaks English, excelled in school, works hard for a living, has had a career outside sports, hip-hop, and drugs, has no criminal record, and has never hung out in a crack house.

Jalen, next time you broadcast on ESPN, do us a favor. Throw in some noun-verb agreement and a grammatical sentence now and then. Word. Out. :)

You are wrong on the facts: Rose suggested/implied in a recent Skip Bayless interview that he STILL holds his racist Bizarro World (up are down, bad are good) views that equate dysfunctionality with being "authentically" black.

BTW, how is Rose still employed at ESPN after his racial slurs directed at every black Duke basketball player past and present, including players like Hubert Davis who work for ESPN? If ESPN's Jay Bilas had called Rose a semiliterate hood rat, Bilas would have been dismissed before lunch. How crazy is it for Rose to declare blacks who actually know who their parents are, speak English, and live productive non-criminal lives are not "authentic"?

Through his bigoted hate blasts, Jalen Rose showed he is disgrace to his race ... the human race.

@Mr. Hill, we are sorry you had to interrupt your busy schedule to respond in writing to the moronic ebonic babblings of this fool.

Maybe, these guys were KIDS!!! Think back at what a little shit you were at that age. I know I totally fail the "mature" test at that age. There is no controversy here - period.

Rose never backed off his comments. He did acknowledge that Duke was the better team in 1992 but I don't see that he appologized to Hill. He said that he was a teeenager without a filter but never stated that he felt otherwise about Hill or other black Duke players. Jimmy King stated that he still feels that way toward Duke. Racism is racism. Are the black players at Harvard 'Toms' too? I like Jalen Rose and Chris Webber too. They are both part of the NBA establishment. Does that mean they have 'sold out' as Jimmy King puts it or 'Toms' or have they just matured. Maybe Grant Hill matured a little earlier in life.

Mr. Barra:

If you believe the debate Mr. Rose ignited should be dropped why are writing this article and why did you include the flowing langauge in your article "But it was a little irresponsible of Hill - and, for that matter, of the Times - to print a response that seemed to disregard the obvious, which was that Rose and his teammates, who came from, let us simply say, less privileged backgrounds, viewed the Duke players with disdain because they envied them' which is an invitation to additional debate. Your are entitled your opinion and evedryone is entleted to theirs.