When Serena Williams won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics, the tennis star celebrated with Clip Walk.
Thirteen years later, Williams went on stage at the Super Bowl Halftime Show with rapper Kendrick Lama and did another clip walk. While “Fearless” Jason Whitlock is far from amusing the exhibit, the “View” host praises the performance as a celebration of “black culture.”
“After beating Sharapova at the 2012 Olympics, she did the same clip walk and that was on Wimbledon glass and everyone said it was rude.” and Sunny Hostin began.
“What she was doing was a real self and a homage to her roots from Compton, and it was Black Joy and Black's excellence. Hostin said, “This is her real self And it was about being the essence of black culture.”
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“I don't know the background of Sunny Hostin, and perhaps it's like Serena in terms of her disconnect from the food culture she's trying to put herself on,” Whitlock says.
When Whitlock first saw the clip from the “view,” he said everyone was “apparently” and “surprising,” and Clip Walking is a representative of black culture.
“Can they honestly believe this? Or is this something they have to say to survive on television?” he asks guest Delano Squires.
“I think it depends on who you ask and what context you ask. I say this. When a black artist wins the award, Beyoncé is gramy on her country album Let's say you get an award, a black athlete wins an award, or something like that, or something like that. For culture, this is a victory,” Squires tells Whitlock.
“But when hip hop artists are criticised for the content they put out there, guns, murders, ops, drugs, degradation and disregard for women, that person will say, 'Oh, no,' it's black. It's not culture, it's hip hop, it's that particular individual,” he continues.
“I think dichotomy lives in almost all of us, and certainly live in people who have a platform on television and mainstream media,” he adds.
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