{"id":105285,"date":"2020-11-05T08:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jalen-rose-on-his-admiration-for-journalist-van-lathan\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T05:01:27","slug":"jalen-rose-on-his-admiration-for-journalist-van-lathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jalen-rose-on-his-admiration-for-journalist-van-lathan\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jalen Rose on his admiration for journalist Van Lathan"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jalen Rose on his admiration for journalist Van Lathan<\/strong>”
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\n Waking up the morning after Election Day was totally anti-climactic since a candidate hasn\u2019t officially been declared the victor. It\u2019s just like watching a championship game<\/a>. When the ref blows the whistle, whoever wins will celebrate while the other side will probably get a technical foul for their reaction when they don\u2019t get the W. But that\u2019s politics these days. This race has exposed just how divided we truly are as a nation.<\/p>\n

Someone I am not divided on, is journalist, podcaster and my guest this week on \u201cRenaissance Man,\u201d Van Lathan. Since he app<\/a>eared on TMZ, I had so much respect for him. He was one of very few black people in that news<\/a>room, and I viewed him as a conduit for black culture, someone relaying a different perspective in a sea of people who didn\u2019t look like him.<\/p>\n

He reminds me very much of Charlamagne tha God on \u201cThe Breakfast Club,\u201d who works for a corporation but still fearlessly expresses himself without compromising his integrity. I\u2019m showing my age, but when I would see Lathan work the TMZ newsroom, I thought of Hoppy and Smitty, the cops on \u201cSanford and Son.\u201d Hoppy, the white cop, would give all of the jargon and official language and Smitty, the black cop, would translate it all for Fred and Lamont. That is how I always saw Lathan, as the Smitty of TMZ.<\/p>\n