Jason Whitlock Gets Dragged By Serena Williams’ Husband After Criticizing Her Super Bowld Halftime Cameo
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It’s too bad sports analyst Stephen A. Smith has such seething contempt for Jason Whitlock because if he didn’t, the two could bond over their whiny opinions that nobody asked for about Serena Williams C-walking on the NFL stage during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show.
While Smith was bloviating about how he would “divorce” Williams for making the Super Bowl appearance to clap back at Drake, who she briefly dated in the past — which only resulted in half the internet reminding Smith that he’s unmarried, that Williams would never have married him, and that the only thing he ever divorced was his hairline — Whitlock was doing his usual “I heart Black woman hate” thing and saying all the things about Serena’s C-walk that he did not say about Snoop Dogg when he did it in full Crip regalia on the NFL stage just a few years prior. (That isn’t to say that the self-loathing Uncle Ruckus acolyte doesn’t hate Black men too, but nothing gets his sambo senses flaring like a confident and accomplished Black woman who doesn’t care about his respectability politics.)
Anyway, Whitlock predictably responded to Williams’ halftime show cameo by pulling up his cotton-picking bootstraps and bashing the tennis legend for being “inappropriate,” suggesting she should apologize for the display and bringing up her eldest sister, Yetunde Price, having been shot by a gang member, which might have been relevant if the C-walk hadn’t long been evolved from a dance associated with the Crips to a pop culture fad that has been normalized in the mainstream for years.
Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, defended his wife from her critics, including Smith and Whitlock.
“Some of y’all have no idea how criticized Serena was for this same dance at Wimbledon 13 years ago, and it shows… This is bigger than the music,” Ohanian tweeted.
Whitlock, of course, had a problem with that too, calling Ohanian a “true Beta” and a “simp” for being “mad at me rather than the wife Crip walking and still thinking about Drake.”
What’s interesting — I mean, besides Whitlock being a near-60-year-old man using terms like “simp” and “beta” like he’s still a young college dude-bro begging the white boys to play hacky-sac with him — is that both Whitlock and Smith seem to be hung up on Williams clapping back at her ex when she should be focused on her husband, which ignores the fact that Drake put lyrics in a song that took shots at both Serena and her husband. So, even if Williams’ appearance on that stage was about getting back at her ex (which completely ignores, among other things, that she’s from Compton and Kendrick Lamar is all about all things Compton), logically, her clapback would have been on her own behalf as well as her husbands.
Maybe that part went over Smith and Whitlock’s heads because they hadn’t heard the song “Middle of the Ocean” in which Drake told Williams’, “Your husband a groupie,” or maybe it just doesn’t really matter because Smith and Whitlock are two gossipy hen house negroes who are 57 years old but engage in the kind of chatter that is normally reserved for teenagers in high school cafeterias.
“I get it—you’re 57, and life didn’t turn out the way you imagined. That kind of disappointment must be exhausting,” Ohanian commented under Whitlock’s tweet. “You’re the embodiment of peaked in high school, spending decades chasing validation from strangers through Likes and Digital Hugs, only to find that no amount of external approval fills the void. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.”
“Criticism only fuels your victim complex, reinforcing the comforting delusion that there’s some grand conspiracy against you and your ‘brave ideas’—when in reality, you’ve just got terrible takes. It’s a cycle: outrage, backlash, self-pity, repeat,” he added. “This is a lonely road. There’s still time to rewrite the ending — start by working on yourself first. You’ll find that if you wake up every morning trying to be a little better, a little more curious, you won’t have time for irrational hating — you’ll be too busy winning.”
I get it—you’re 57, and life didn’t turn out the way you imagined. That kind of disappointment must be exhausting. You’re the embodiment of peaked in high school, spending decades chasing validation from strangers through Likes and Digital Hugs, only to find that no amount of…
— Alexis Ohanian
(@alexisohanian) February 11, 2025
Whitlock responded by reposting Ohanian’s comments and asking, “Why is Serena Williams’ husband fussing at me? Why not take it up with Drake? Don’t be mad at me because Serena can’t get over Drake. This makes no sense!” (Again, Drake dissed BOTH of them, you sunken-placed idiot.)
Then Whitlock posted a photoshopped pic of Serena dressed as a Crip complete with face tattoos.
Super Bowl Serena Williams. She's a Real One. pic.twitter.com/4t0eLq1Fkh
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) February 12, 2025
Again, Whitlock must have been afraid Snoop Dogg was going to drive-by pimp slap him for criticizing a man who was actually a Crip for Crip walking on the NFL stage because he didn’t have any of this smoke for the Long Beach rapper. Or maybe Whitlock is simply a misogynoir-fueled coward who picks on Black women because he knows he can’t fight.
Mind you, Whitlock was one of the many voices blasting Williams after she celebrated her victory over Maria Sharapova by C-walking at the Olympics in 2012.
“What Serena did was akin to cracking a tasteless, X-rated joke inside a church. Serena deserved to be called out. What she did was immature and classless,” Whitlock said at the time. (12 years later, the same man used his own platform to make lewd comments about Fox Sports host Joy Taylor’s “rack” while addressing Taylor’s involvement in a sexual harassment lawsuit. But sure, Williams was “tasteless.”)
It’s worth mentioning that if Whitlock, Smith or anyone else really wanted to know why Serena was C-walking on that stage, they could have just asked her — because she had an answer for that.
“When @kendricklamar and team called and was like ‘we’ve been trying to do something forever, what about this? We loved your crip walk at the Olympics after you won the gold medal,’” Williams posted on Instagram. “I’m like Super Bowl? Are you serious? When in the world would I ever be able to dance at a superbowl? (Never) let’s do it! I knew my winning dance after the @olympics would pay off one day. End of story.”
Exactly.
End. Of. Story.
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