Sports journalist Jason Whitlock likened the treatment of rapper Kanye West to Kunta Kinte in the 1970s miniseries 'Roots' in an interview Thursday with FOX News host Tucker Carlson. West sat down with Carlson for an interview that lasted the entire hour. "I'm going to use an analogy," Whitlock told Carlson. "Kunta Kinte in 'Roots.' They got him out on a tree and they are whipping him, 'What's your name?' And they want him to say left-wing liberal and he won't say it. He keeps saying, 'I like Trump. I like God. I'm a Christian.' And they keep whipping and slashing him and they are trying to make this man bow down to the liberal orthodoxy and they are doing it as a message to me and everybody else." <blockquote>JASON WHITLOCK: Throughout that interview tonight I heard a guy that's a devout Christian and I heard a guy that is cursed with the disease of fame. It's undermined his ability to be a good father, it has undermined his ability to be a good husband, it's undermined his happiness. He wants to be a Christian and the things he said about his faith and wearing the lanyard with the ultrasound, all of that -- I love that about Kanye West. It scares the heck out of the left to see someone like Kanye West that popular, that influential. His skin color that has those Christian values because that's what's really under attack. His Christian values. It scares them, they don't want him to survive. They are using him. I'm going to use an analogy. Kunta Kinte in 'Roots.' They got him out on a tree and they are whipping him, 'What's your name?' And they want him to say left-wing liberal and he won't say it. He keeps saying, 'I like Trump. I like God. I'm a Christian.' And they keep whipping and slashing him and they are trying to make this man bow down to the liberal orthodoxy and they are doing it as a message to me and everybody else. If you don't get in line with what we want you to think every black man, every heterosexual black man, every black man with Christian values we will beat you into a pulp. Kanye's man enough to stand up, I wish more men were. </blockquote>