ESPN.com - Page2 - NOW is NOT the time

ESPN's new columnist Jason Whitlock appears to be particularly clueless, even for a sportswriter. Whitlock (who is African American) apparently feels that while racism is really bad, sexism is only mildly offensive, a PG-13 type sin. And therefore, while it was important to integrate Augusta National racially, integrating it sexually isn't a pressing need.

[African-Americans] just don't want powerful people who never take the time to get to know us gathering together and making decisions that could impact our lives. The best way we know how to combat that problem is by sending in a token or two.

But women, heck, they're flighty and need important decisions made for them.

I'm not going accuse him of not even knowing that the National Organization of Women is not organizing the efforts against Augusta National, since he presumably didn't write the headline. So his editor is clueless as well.

Whitlock's colleague Jim Caple is content to make fun of Hootie Johnson's name.