Jason Whitlock joining Clay Travis as partner at Outkick

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Social media defines my values as outdated, no longer healthy or useful. Major corporations, the lifeblood of the mainstream media, operate in fear of algorithms that act as social-media lynch mobs. The punishment for failing to stick to the secular values promoted through social media is career execution by lethal algorithm.

Everyone must pretend Saints quarterback Drew Brees said something outrageous and indefensible when he stated he would never agree with anyone who disrespected the flag.

I can’t do it. I can’t participate in the character assassination of anyone based on such an innocuous comment.

Everyone must pretend the police are executing a mass murder plot on unarmed black men even though there were only nine such incidents in 2019.

I can’t do it. I can’t demonize a group of people based on the isolated actions of a few. That’s bigotry. And I say that having lost a close relative to police violence in May of 2012. I say that realizing George Floyd’s death was a heinous murder by a cop clearly drunk on power.

Let me be clear. No one at FOX Sports, ESPN, the Kansas City Star or anywhere else I’ve worked has ever asked me to say or write something I didn’t believe.

But the reality is the truths I explore/discuss/debate are problematic for organizations justifiably controlled by fear of social-media whims. It’s like running a race against a head wind while your competitors have a wind at their backs.

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