Bomani Jones
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433 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Dec
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Red is also an aggressive color.
me I appreciate you it dawned on me like we're not in the round number stage yet but we are almost at 20 years of uh knowing each other yeah so let's start with that you were tell everybody how we met you were a local a lot of people don't know you did local radio for a long time yeah but this was before I did local radio I was writing for page two and I wrote a story about um Carolina and Kentucky had played at the Dean Dome this was the last year of Tubby Smith
And it looked like everybody had checked out on that.
So I wrote down my feeling that everybody had checked out. And I probably got a couple things wrong. And I know this because you reached out to me about it, which went okay. And you made also a very worthwhile point that I wasn't thinking about is that there's a racial dynamic in how Tubby is evaluated and how I, as a young black guy-
my words could then be used on a topic that to be fair and i have a better appreciation for now than i did then only knew but so much about so i was like okay this is cool it was actually interesting because i can't remember the reason espn took it down like they felt like there was some detail that wasn't correct or whatever and they oh i didn't know they took it down yeah that was part of what that was part of what was famous about it was that they had taken the piece down after it went up for whatever the reason
But I do remember very clearly that after that, you're like, hey, you ought to come on our radio show. And I said, OK, fine. And I went on and I couldn't believe you guys were talking like this about things in sports. I was like, oh, y'all talk about Duke like this. This is crazy. I agree. But this is crazy.
Yeah, it just happened recently. We're talking about Shador Sanders and the draft. And so what has made it complicated is actually the presence of the internet. Or maybe the internet has made it a little bit more simple in that the internet has made everyone more tribal. And I think a thing the internet has done that we don't talk enough about is it has minimized intra-group disagreement. Right.
Like, so a lot of these young columnists that I see, and I don't even know columnist is the right term anymore. Right. But like young people who traffic in opinions, they seem to figure out what everybody's already saying and then distill that into one thing and then give people back what what they already said in the first place. Because you can go workshop anything on the internet, right?
Like you can go figure out on a social media platform, how's this take going to go over and then decide if the people that you care about are going to feel the same way. To me, I feel like A, that's cheating and B, I feel like that's not particularly interesting. Like if you're really good at this,
then you've earned the respect of your audience and they'll go with you when they don't necessarily agree with you and maybe think about it a different way. But people are also now far less likely to actually do that. And so one thing I have decided to push back on is
The refusal I see from other people to criticize within whatever the group may be, whether the group is the left, whether the group is black people, whether the group is young people, whether the group is fans of a particular team or whatever it is like we've got to have the healthy dialogue within that.
Well, the trick bag on that is if you give me time to talk it out, right? Like my explanation on it was all of us get humbled by life at some point. Neither you nor I hurt for confidence, right? We have both had moments where we were like, oh, okay, we got put in check just a little bit by the world.
The problem is when people believe that somebody is supposed to do it, typically believing that they themselves, the audacity to believe that you are the humbler, right? You ain't got to worry about that. The world's going to do that. And that's what happened to Shador. And so the thing with Shador in the draft was,
I just had a lot of people who had made the call that it was that there was something nefarious about the fact that he slid in the draft. And I'm like, no, I don't think that's what happened. I think that what happened was he wasn't necessarily talented enough to be a first round pick.
And then the way that he handled those, he had those interviews as though he was the one making the decision, not the teams.
And so the teams, you know, and that's what's going to happen, but it becomes necessary to say those things. The problem is some of the worst people in the world also felt the same way. Broken clock. A couple times a day, it gets something right. But I can't let those people, I never let those people determine what I'm going to say. Right.
And I'm not. And it's one thing where I think that there's when I think there's healthy room for disagreement. Then, okay, you think he was a first-round pick, that's fine. The trick bag with something like Shador was, Shador was playing college football for a non-college football audience.
So the people who were the most invested in that are the people who were probably the least informed and the least aware. And so I look up, and I see a buddy of mine, a writer, and he says something about, well, show me a time when a guy won the Johnny Unitas Award and had numbers like these and then fell all the way to whenever.
I was like, Gardner Minshew, 2019, six-round pick with all these numbers that you said. Like... We got to- They probably didn't even know that, right?
No, he had no idea. He was operating on what, to be fair, is a somewhat reasonable proposition that these white folks is doing us wrong. There is an extended track record where if that is your default, I understand why you start there, but you can't just go there no matter what, right? Especially if you're trying to make the point in public.
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