Jason Whitlock: I grew up with Black Trump supporters, but they didn't know it

Jason Whitlock provides insight on the left's influence on sports on 'Tucker Carlson Today.'

Sportswriter Jason Whitlock discussed how growing up in Indianapolis was reminiscent of what would be an enclave of "Black Trump supporters," on the latest episode of Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today," given their collective working-class roots and tough work ethic.

"My mother was a factory worker, my dad didn't graduate high school. But eventually, he started a barbershop and then eventually a bar, tavern in the inner city -- like a Black ‘Cheers’," Whitlock told Carlson, in reference to the 1980s NBC sitcom based in a working-class Boston bar.

"People find it confusing when I say it, but it's like I grew up around Black Trump supporters. They didn't know it, but they were just like Trump supporters -- working-class, worried about their families, just want to work hard and create space for themselves to be happy in America."

Whitlock said he feels most at home around people of that proclivity, and that he fondly remembered his father's saloon in Indianapolis as a place to take some "elites" in the sportswriting world.

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"I can remember Indiana University's head coach Mike Davis at one time he came down to my dad's bar. It was always-- I try to bring my friends or the people I've met down to the Masterpiece Lounge to let them hang with some real people, some real brothers I would say," he said.

"And that's kind of been my spirit and one of the things, one of the biggest lessons I took from my dad. In America you can create your own space, you can create your own happiness. You don't have to work for people you don't want to work for, you don't have to deal with people you don't want," he added. 

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