Nick Cannon, Megan Rapinoe, President Eisenhower & Covid Gets Personal | The Week’s Best Whitlock Firestarters | 8/21/21

Fearless with Jason Whitlock

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🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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After a wild week at the “Fearless” studio, Jason looks back on the week’s monologues. How would Martin Luther King Jr look at today’s black culture? Did President Eisenhower really predict the rise of Facebook and Twitter? Are Hope Solo’s accusations against U.S. Soccer teammate Megan Rapinoe on target? How did a scary moment for COVID-stricken Uncle Jimmy become a humiliation for Jason? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, happy Saturday.
0:08.8	It's your boy, Jason Wittlock.
0:12.0	Fill it in for my main man and your main man, Uncle Jimmy, who's still battling COVID.
0:18.8	He's doing okay.
0:21.6	Keep praying for him.
0:22.6	He's doing okay.
0:23.6	I think he's going to be fine.
0:25.2	But let's start talking about these fire starters and these fires I've said this week
0:29.1	on Monday, I opened the week talking about the entertainer, the rapper, the singer, Nick
0:34.3	Cannon and his justification for having seven kids with four different women.
0:41.2	So I tied that all together like, well, what happened to culture?
0:44.8	What happened to black culture in the aftermath of Martin Luther King?
0:49.3	He left us with a dignified, respectful, positive culture and look what we got now.
0:58.3	Anyway, it caused me to go off, check this fire starter.
1:02.4	One of my most vivid memories of childhood is walking down my neighborhood street and
1:07.9	telling my best friend, butch, that I wanted to be the next Reverend Martin Luther King,
1:12.8	Jr.
1:13.8	With the mid 1970s, I was eight or nine years old.
1:18.6	Me and my older brother and mom lived at 3920 Grand Avenue in a two bedroom flat on the
1:24.8	east side of inner city, anyapolis.
1:27.9	The 650 square foot apartment cost $75 a month.
1:33.1	My parents had divorced four years prior.
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