NYDN’s Shaun King Calls Black Sportswriter ‘Coon,’ Uncle Tom in Twitter Feud
A disagreement this week between New York Daily News columnist Shaun King and Fox Sports’ Jason Whitlock over King’s coverage of the Peyton Manning scandal culminated in a nasty racial Twitter battle.
Whitlock got the ball rolling by criticizing King after he wrote a Saturday article detailing how Manning allegedly sexually harassed a trainer while at the University of Tennessee. King wasn’t a journalist, Whitlock claimed on The Dan Patrick Show, but “a race hustler from Twitter, from the Black Lives Matter movement who stirs racial controversy to elevate himself.”
Whitlock listed off a laundry list of allegations made by King’s conservative critics: “First of all, he’s white and presenting himself as black. He said that as a child in high school he was allegedly attacked by a group of white people because he was black. Well, he wasn’t black and there were people saying that wasn’t why he was attacked and there’s no proof of it.”
King responded to Whitlock’s criticism on Twitter, accusing him of “cooning” for money and calling him a “Tom ass bastard.”
Truth is, @WhitlockJason has mainly kept a job because he’s the guy white folk use to throw Black leaders under the bus. Steppin fetchin.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 17, 2016
It makes sense that @WhitlockJason was fired (twice) by ESPN and now works for Fox. You fit right in there man.
Dude will coon for cash.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 17, 2016
. @WhitlockJason the most relevant you’ve been in YEARS is when you are selling me or @deray or Beyonce out this week. Tom ass bastard.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 17, 2016
White media has ALWAYS made room for a tom or two who will go on TV or radio and call Black leaders racists. Now they call us “race-baiters”
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 17, 2016
I’m done engaging Whitlock. Had no idea he was all over white radio and TV dissing me and @deray and others this week. A damn fool. Sellout.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 17, 2016
Whitlock gave as good as he got, calling King a white man pretending to be black.
You’re white. Don’t claim it. I’m black. Love it. Who’s the sellout? https://t.co/rWALecQZXq
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) February 17, 2016
Shaun King so white they giving him an Oscar for playing black on Twitter. #OneLove https://t.co/CYp5UiBDeZ
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) February 17, 2016
Soul brother with a mullet. #WhiteLiesMatter https://t.co/8Pa16Bbfx3
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) February 16, 2016
Later, he tweeted that he had invited King to discuss their beef on the radio, but King backed out.
Have extended a polite invitation for Shaun King to appear on Cowherd radio tomorrow. Being told he initially agreed and is now backing out
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) February 18, 2016
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