Jason Whitlock Once Wrote About Serena Williams Being A Fat Underachiever and It Is Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine
No, he was dead serious.
Jason Whitlock gets paid a lot of money to consistently write nonsense that gets a rise out of people. It's a good skill to have, honestly. It pays to be a troll. Just ask Skip Bayless. Whitlock has been perfecting his shtick for a long time now. Back in 2009, the former editor in chief of ESPN's offshoot site, The Undefeated a.k.a. "Black Grantland," wrote one of the most ridiculous articles you will ever read on Serena Williams. A little context: At the time, Serena was 27 and was sitting on 11 Grand Slam titles—11 behind Steffi Graf and 13 behind Margaret Court—which was "a terrible shame" as Whitlock astutely pointed out.
Fast forward six years later and Williams now has 20 Grand Slam titles (four short of tying Court's record), and just demolished Maria Sharapova earlier today to reach the Wimbledon Final for the eighth time. If she beats Garbine Muguruza on Saturday it'll be the second time she's held all four Grand Slam titles at once a.k.a. the "Serena Slam," thus making these Whitlock quotes I'm about to put you on to even more repulsive than they already are.
After pointing out the terrible shame of her 11 titles at the age of 27, he compared her to Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods, and Rosa muthafuckin' Parks. That's not so bad, right? Get a whiff of the whole thing:
Lawd Jesus. *clutches pearls*
There's a lot more where that came from. He goes on to say the "inescapable truth" (because his word is gospel) being that Serena is "an underachiever." Because it's not like she's an African-American woman that rose from the streets of Compton to become one of the best tennis players in the world. That alone is not enough for Mr. Black Grantland.
He con-tin-ues.
Oh. God.
But wait, it gets worse:
Bam! Boom! Zing!
Check this shit out, though:
Get this guy some cold cuts because he is on a roll. Nah? I tried. It's a double aunt andre. He called her a fucking a horse. OK, moving on to some even more sexist shit:
Yup. He handed that in and someone edited it and then hit the publish button. I wish this was fake. He then justifies that repulsive Beyoncé statement:
It is lit, as the kids say.
And still, it gets worse:
LMFAO, Jason Whitlock cannot be serious. *projectile vomits on Edwin Ortiz who sits next me*
After he writes about what could happen if she ever reached her potential (something about Roger Federer shagging her balls and LeBron and Kobe bragging about being her neighbor blah blah blah), he devolves into this doozy of a paragraph:
*shivers*
He then closes it out by comparing Serena to Paris FUCKING Hilton:
That's it. I'm done. Show's over.
Angel Diaz is a staff writer for Complex Media. Follow him @ADiaz456.
