Pay attention to the dangerous, valuable ‘Malcolm X-Rated’

I spent much of the past two days researching and discussing Charleston White, a bombastic, crude, and politically incorrect social media influencer.

I gave White the nickname “Malcolm X-Rated.” He mixes pointed criticism of black culture with black nationalism and racial idolatry. I don’t know quite yet what to make of Mr. White. The divorced father of two talks passionately about the importance of traditional family and the patriarchy while acknowledging he’s quite capable of passing out inside a strip club.

Thirty-two years ago, at age 14, White participated in a murder after a robbery. Incarcerated until age 21, White joined a gang while serving time. After being released, he spent the next decade fumbling around as a petty criminal before deciding to devote his life to helping kids not repeat his mistakes.

Calling himself a “frustrated activist,” three years ago, White changed his approach to activism. He leaned into an exaggerated ghetto persona. He laced his message with profanities, heavy use of the “N-word,” and tales of his love of shady and hyper-sexualized women. He became a TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube superstar.

The internet fell in love with Malcolm X-Rated. He blasted gangsta rappers, snitched on drug dealers, shredded liberal black celebrities, and made it rain on strippers across the South.

Is he a force for good? I can’t decide. On Wednesday, after talking with the contributors on my BlazeTV show, “Fearless with Jason Whitlock,” I had been swayed to believe White is a net negative. Delano Squires, Anthony Walker, Virgil Walker, and T.J. Moe punched holes in my belief that White is a good and necessary evil. I left the studio convinced that nothing positive could be derived from White’s profane pontificating.

Lebron James promotes a line of thinking that devalues male leadership and the natural family. Charleston White promotes the exact opposite.

And then, Thursday morning, I awoke, clicked on ESPN.com, and read the story about LeBron James’ comments on an atrocious shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, that left three people dead. The shooting had nothing to do with Charleston White. But LeBron’s comments made me think of White. Corporate media teed up America’s most famous athlete to argue against the Second Amendment.

“First of all, my condolences go to the families that lost loved ones, families, and friends, and everything,” he began. So far, so good.

“It just goes back to what I said before about guns in America,” he continued. “I think it’s such a longer conversation, but we keep dealing with the same story, this same conversation every single time it happens, and it just continues to happen. The ability to get a gun, the ability to do these things over and over and over, and there’s been no change, is literally ridiculous. It makes no sense that we continue to lose innocent lives on campuses, schools, at shopping markets, and movie theaters, and all type of stuff. It’s ridiculous.

“The fact that we haven’t changed anything — it’s actually been easier to be able to own a firearm. … It’s stupid.”

LeBron James’ job is to convince black men that the Second Amendment is why black neighborhoods are a cesspool of violent crime. It’s a lie.

The absence of fathers and patriarchal homes powers the violence that plagues black neighborhoods. Corporate media will never ask James about this fact. He’s a useful idiot in the movement to revoke our constitutional right to arm ourselves against a government that cannot be trusted. James promotes a line of thinking that devalues male leadership and the natural family.

Charleston White promotes the exact opposite. And he does so with a level of “street” credibility that James can’t match. That’s what makes White valuable and dangerous.

The left uses high-profile influencers to legitimize its fraudulent arguments.

As a Christian, I wish Charleston White would avoid profanity and acknowledge the Christian faith his mother instilled in him. I believe he’s adopted a secular strategy because he believes the majority of black people have rejected Christian faith in favor of racial idolatry. I suspect White conceals his faith because it’s the only way he believes he’ll be heard. It’s a strategy I strongly disagree with, but at this point it’s not a mistake that will make me reject Charleston White.

His approach creates an opportunity for believers to reach people who have rejected God’s truth. The truth is that the natural family — man serving God, a woman following a man who serves God, and father and mother discipling kids — is the only solution to the pathologies undermining black people.

LeBron James isn’t free to speak that truth. His political and corporate puppet masters won’t allow him to deal in truth. Sportswriters and broadcasters know what to ask James in a public setting and which questions to let James answer pre-emptively on social media.

A year ago, a 17-year-old white kid, Ethan Liming, was beaten and murdered in the parking lot of LeBron’s I Promise School in Akron, Ohio. James posted a brief statement via Twitter.

“Our condolences goes [sic] out to the family who lost a loved one. (May) the heavens above watch over you during this tragedy! Pray for our community!”

That was it. I’ve never seen James interviewed about the murder. Two months ago, the black men responsible for beating and killing Liming were found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Instead, Tyler and Deshawn Stafford were convicted of assault. One was sentenced to six months in prison. The other man was sentenced to 18 months.

Not a word from LeBron James. No reporter will ever get the opportunity to publicly question James about the atrocious event at his school. But ESPN made sure everyone was made aware of LeBron James’ unsophisticated thoughts on an atrocity that happened in Las Vegas, site of the NBA’s in-season tournament.