NAACP Image Awards Mock Jesus Christ While Whining About Tourette Mishap | Jason Whitlock Harmony

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Welcome to Harmony. I am Jason Whitlock, your host. Happy Monday to you and yours. We have a great

discussion on tap for you with Shamika, Virgil, and Anthony. The NAACP held their image awards

last night. I found the whole thing fascinating and repulsive to be quite honest with you. Dion

Cole, the comedic host, opened the show with this fake prayer that we will show you. Let's play the

clip. Come on, y'all got to pray with me. I bow my heads. Let's go. Lord, I want you to bless our

sister, Tiana Taylor, Lord. Keep her single and away from six three green-ad men with muscles, Lord.

Give the average man the chance with her, Lord. Hey, I'll give the average woman a chance with her.

Lord, I want you to bless our brother, 50 cents, Lord. Damn it.

But that pettyness, beginning that day, going fast at work, don't it? You know what,

Lord, bless him with some more petty ideas, Lord. That'll help us at work, Lord, definitely.

Lord, we want you to bless our sister, Nicki Minaj, Lord. Yes. She's been going through a lot,

lately, Lord. It hasn't been herself, Lord. I believe whatever's in her ass is affecting a brain,

Lord. Take it out of ass, Lord. We bind that spirit in our ass, Lord.

And oh, yeah, Lord, Lord, Lord, before we go, Lord, if there are any white men out here in the

audience, Lord, with Tourette's. I've asked you to tell them they better read the room tonight,

Lord. It might not go the way they think of whatever medicine they own, they better double

up on it, Lord. All these things we ask in Jesus' name, my praise. Let the church say,

I mean, it's Hollywood. I have a sense of humor, but I just, I've lived long enough.

I've lived too long. I guess I'm too old. And I remember a time when you just, you just

wouldn't play with God. And people, there would have been a hush like, hey, what are we doing here?

We want to laugh. We want to have a good time. I'm up for anything, but I'm not going to make

Jesus Christ a part of my joke. I'm not going to lead people in a fake prayer where I get that

profane and where I'm talking about what's inside Nicki Minaj's rear end. I'm just, I watch this,

and I go, this is the NAACP image awards. And, you know, I used to be a member of the NAACP

dues-paying member. And then I would think 20, somewhere between 20 and 25 years ago, I was like,

the NAACP's not what I thought it was. And, you know, I quit being a dues-paying member. And,

and just the longer it exists, the more hostile I get towards the NAACP. And just think that it's

the advancement of colored people, which I just think, like, how far was their vision? The NAACP,

I think, was starting in the 1910s, 1920s. And, and maybe they knew ahead of time that people

of color would be the thing that we would go to. But anyway, I'm disappointed by this, but not

surprised. Shamika Michelle, Virgil, Anthony, welcome to the show. Shamika, your reaction,

you were the first person to send this to me. Your reaction to the image awards.

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in this country goes way beyond politics. It's about culture, values, and the lies we're told to

excuse bad behavior and bad ideas. On Sarah Gonzalez unfiltered, I take on the stories the mainstream

media refuses to cover, honestly, from radical ideology and government overreach to the cultural

decay that's affecting families, kids, and everyday Americans. I don't do spin, I don't do excuses,

and I don't pretend the truth needs to be softened to be heard. If you're looking for commentary

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Yeah, I thought the prayer was disrespectful, Jason, definitely. Now, had I understand that he's

a comedian, so had he said something like, I don't know, we pray to the universe or we pray to

the God of Hollywood, you know, just something silly, then I would have been a bit more understanding,

but we clearly know he was targeting the Christian God because he closed it out with in Jesus'

name, we pray. So I thought it was very disrespectful to bring in homosexuality when he

asked for Tiana Taylor to give even a woman a chance. I thought it was disrespectful to bring in,

like you said, talking about Nicki Minaj body parts. I just thought it was disrespectful all around,

and for people saying, oh, he's a comedian, I don't think he would have done another religion

the way he did Christianity. And that's my problem because people get away with disrespect

and Christianity, and they wouldn't get away with disrespecting Jews or disrespecting Muslims.

It's always Christianity that has to be the butt of the joke. And I've said so long, I'm not

really surprised with the whole Tourette's thing simply because I think we worship skin color.

They don't care that they're coming against a man that has a disability, that's not a thing for

them. They worship black skin color. And more than that, I think they worship the Democrat Party.

Because I've said for a while now, I don't think that the National Association for the

Advancement of Colored People really care about the Advancement of Black People. I think they

are in arm of the Democrat Party, and it's more about building loyalty in Blackface. So for me,

I just didn't like any of it, but it was the prayer that really struck me. And I said,

this would never go with another religion. It's always Christianity that has to be the butt of the

joke. The point I really liked that you made there is that you could execute the same joke

just differently with some respect. Hey, we're playing to the Gods of Hollywood.

Boom, now the Gods of Hollywood, we know they're satanic, pray whatever you want. I got no problem

with you. And it would have been very easy to fix, but again, there's no reverence, there's no

respect for Jesus Christ in Hollywood. And so no one thought to do that. Virgil, your thoughts.

Yeah, I thought this was horrible. On just a couple of levels. One, you know, to the point that

Shemika made, this could have been dealt with, or if they wanted to go this line of thinking,

could have said, you know, y'all church folks know we, you know, we got, we want to send some

some some prayer warriors out for these people or send somebody after these folks because they need

to be arrested. And here's why and what have you. There's all kinds of ways to frame that joke.

If you're going to, if you're going to deliver it in that context, man, I

the lack of a fear of the Lord that is in that context is amazing. It's jaw drop.

And frightening because to the point you made earlier, Jason, I remember a time when we would,

we would laugh at a whole lot of stuff. We would clap at a whole lot of stuff. But you mentioned

some Jesus or church. We weren't touching it. And I'm shocked that a people were laughing at all.

There were some as they pan the, as they pan the, the, you know, the camera who were a little bit

nervous, right? But nobody did what they should have done, which is put up that holy finger and

walk there behind right out of that place. I would be, I would be afraid that, you know, that

something didn't happen that would cause that man to be struck down given that he, that he,

you know, that he invocated the name of Jesus. I would not want to be in that space. And again,

he'll give an account for every word that he uttered in that space to a very holy God who

won't be laughing. So it being, it being as interest to repent. Anthony, you're not in, in your

fifties like me and Virgil, but man, I just, there used to be such a reverence. And, and, you

know, I think of Ecclesiastes 12 and 13, the whole duty of man, fear God, no bad commandments.

And we move so far away from that. There is no fear of God. And I think,

my understanding of the Bible, my readings like the only thing that God tells us to fear is God.

And we've lost all fear of that. And we fear everything else.

Oh, certainly, certainly it, it, it was distasteful, disrespectful, ungodly, all of those things.

And absolutely, it shows how far we have gotten from any kind of reverence towards God at all.

But at the same time, if I'm just being frank, it doesn't really shock me.

I mean, we've, we as a nation have drifted so far from all of that. It's only going to be

evidenced in what we put in our media. So the fact that it, it's on display is shocking to us

because we remember a time. But this is the world that we're in. And I wouldn't even go even

further to say this. You know, we at some point in our history years ago began to use God as

a bumper sticker on what we want it. Like, you know, this is what I choose to do. This is what

I choose to say. And let me put God on it. Hey, let's, let's get ready to do this own holy,

ungodly thing. But let's pray before we do it as if that makes it holy. No, it's still ungodly.

It's still ratchet. It's still foolish. And so that's, that's what we just saw. Hey,

let's make a joke about God. I mean, you're joking about prayer. You're joking about one's

relationship with God and profaning his name all at the same time in the hopes for laughter and

everybody to participate. You know, I actually think, and I thought about this when I saw it in

real time, it's like, I wish that we could Hollywood people are not representative of reality.

And I may be misspoke in here or maybe I'm too hopeful. But I don't think what they do in

Hollywood is actually a reflection of reality. And so that's, I know that's a group of black

people, but that's a group of Hollywood black people. And that's a different species. I actually

think that most black people can recognize like, hey, man, that's crazy what they're doing. And

and I say that just and maybe I'm being too optimistic, but I can still remember not that long go when

when like again, I'm friends or I was friends with tech nine, a rapper that's pretty popular.

And he used to get criticized all the time by black people is like, hey, man, your music is

satanic and it's a bridge too far. And I believe that sentiment is is is still out there.

Am I do we think this is reflective of how the average black American sees God?

I'm not I'm not viewing it from black American. I'm viewing it from person like this is an evidence

of where we are as a society that we don't have any fear about how this profane's God before

others in the name of of humor like that there's I'm just saying personally not on the black level.

And if it is on the black level and I'm I let me walk down that road with you. Let's just say these

are the elite elite black Hollywood stars. Okay. Do they have no connection to anyone who's

not in Hollywood that would say, hey, no, you know, wait a minute, hold on. Surely they have aunties,

grandmama's granddad's uncles. It's like, hey, no, we can't be a part of that. But the fact that,

you know, we're not seeing any kind of pushback all I see in that is this is Hollywood. Are you shocked?

Would you have been shocked five years ago, Jason? If we say five years from now on a Hollywood

stage in a humorous manner, someone would joke and make a joke in the name of God and prayer.

Hollywood stage. Now we got it. And maybe it's the fact that it's a black Hollywood stage,

but does it suck me on it? It certainly to me indicates like Christians have no influence in

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Yeah, I could completely agree. I mean, I look at what's the response to what took place. Like,

if the thought is, man, that they are a different, they, those who are at this event are different

species. And there's some elements of that Jason that I agree with. But at the same time,

was there outcry? Like, did Teddy jakes or Jamal Bryant or, you know, or Cretchlow dollar or,

or, you know, or, or Curt Franklin, you utilize their public platform to say anything in response

to what they saw as, as men of God, as men who promote Christ, did they say anything? Did they

respond in any negative way to, to what they saw? And the answer to that is, no, why? Because if

they had, they recognized, they would receive backlash from the vast majority of black folks,

who's, who, who are the audience for their, you know, for, for their products, for, for their,

you know, for, for what they do on a Sunday morning. The black church, the numbers have dwindled

as far as those who are actually their participating. Men definitely have left, you know, most,

most of those churches are filled with about anywhere between 15 to 25% men in the vast majority

are women who, who thought this kind of thing was funny. So I, I'd venture to say that any

fibrous backbone that we would have that would stand up against the, the, you know, the, the,

the blasphemy of Jesus, that the, the light-hearted nature in which Christ was taken rather than the

seriousness by which he should be taken, that backbone is gone. There's no steel there. That,

they, they wouldn't respond in any, any, any way that mattered.

Jimmy, I want to play a clip from Sterling Brown. He's a Hollywood actor. He's in a show called

Paradise. He's in other things, but, um, man, the, the, the new religion for black people is blackness.

Let's play the clip. St. Louis in the house.

Thank you to the National Association for the advancement of colored people.

Uh, I spent a lot of time in predominantly white spaces, so it's always a joy to be in a room

with us. We are living under an administration that has an attack on diversity, equity, inclusion,

justice, that's trying to erase critical race theory, but like Sam said, they can't erase us

because there's no country without us. Thank you to the people in Hulu, with Dan Fogman,

folks at Disney would have you, but I want to shut out particularly. I would not be up here if it

was not for black women, and how hard that you ride for your boy. I see you. I appreciate you,

too, in particular, Ryan Michelle Bathay, my wife, my best half, doing her very, very best

been that's a bell, Callaway, with print I came asking her to bark like a dog, a big dog.

Y'all see it, you know what I'm talking about? And last but not least, to Arlene Brown,

who's laying at home in St. Louis right now, living bravely with ALS for the past eight years.

Mama, I love you so much, and I wouldn't be here without you. Thank you. God bless y'all.

Not the worst speech, but it's just everything is so racialized that it's just fingernails on

a chalkboard to me. So make it. Yeah, I'm sick of hearing it, and I'm sick of the woman

worship as well. Do we not know any me and who have done anything great after Martin Luther King

or Malcolm X? I mean, can you name just one? Not an uncle, not a cousin, nothing. I'm sick of hearing

the female worship, but going back to the race issue, Jason, I'm also sick of them saying people

are trying to erase black people. If you don't speak to the amount of killings that we do

among each other, if you don't speak to the abortions that black women have in New York,

we kill more black babies than are born every year. If you don't speak to that, stop acting as if

people are just trying to erase you when you are erasing yourselves. So I'm so sick of all of

the finger pointing and black people not taking accountability for their own behavior. No one is

trying to erase black people. I think that's just silly. We need to stop running with that narrative.

They keep saying they're trying to remove black history from the schools. They are not,

they're trying to let people know black and LGBTQ. The pee is silent. It's not synonymous.

I don't understand why people don't get that, but they just want to run with the lies and keep

pushing this whole victim and oppression narrative. And I'm so sick of it. We've been singing,

we shall overcome someday for so long. Now we have people in Hollywood, millionaires still

thinking they haven't overcome. Give me a break. I am so annoyed and over it.

Guys, I got to cut this short, but I want to thank you guys so much. I'll explain afterwards,

but I got to cut it short. We got to go. For those of you in the audience that probably expected

me to talk a little bit more about Candace Owens, I watched episode three of her deal.

Haven't watched episode two. Haven't watched some other things that just been caught up in other

things over the weekend. We'll probably get back to the Candace Owens, Erica Kirk conversation

tomorrow, Wednesday at the latest. Thank you guys for watching us on the Harmony channel.

We'll see you tomorrow.

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that what we're dealing with in this country goes way beyond politics.

It's about culture, values, and the lies we're told to excuse bad behavior and bad ideas.

On Sarah Gonzalez unfiltered, I take on the stories the mainstream media refuses to cover

honestly from radical ideology and government overreach to the cultural decay that's affecting

families, kids, and everyday Americans. I don't do spin, I don't do excuses, and I don't pretend

that truth needs to be softened to be heard. If you're looking for commentary that's blunt,

fearless, and unapologetically honest, you can watch Sarah Gonzalez unfiltered on

Blase TV or listen wherever you get your podcasts. I'd love to have you join me.