Journalist Roland Martin took a dig at The Blaze’s Jason Whitlock for his at ESPN, where he was supposed to be the editor-in-chief for The Undefeated when it launched.
Whitlock posted a clip of his show on Twitter, discussing Deion Sanders, who recently left Jackson State, an HBCU, for the coaching job at the University of Colorado.
The Blaze host tweeted that black people “don’t have the discipline to build our own. We don’t have the commitment to build our own. The first sniff we get, outside of our own, we run to.”
Martin would then quote tweet the clip and responded by claiming that the one time Whitlock attempted to build something, which was The Undefeated, he ran the website into the ground.
“The only thing Black that @WhitlockJason ever tried to build was The Undefeated,” Martin said on Twitter. “And he ran that joint INTO THE GROUND. He ran off talented folks; was an AWFUL leader. He’s an expert at having no discipline.”
The Undefeated was scheduled to debut in 2015, but after a year and a half of delays, it finally launched in 2016. However, ESPN announced that Whitlock wouldn’t be the editor-in-chief in the process.
In Feb. 2022, The Undefeated decided it was time for a rebrand and is now known as Andscape.
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
