Last week, ESPN personality Jemele Hill posted a tweet in response to Kid Rock’s continuing attack on Colin Kaepernick calling President Donald Trump a White supremacist and unfit to lead the country.
The tweet has caused a lot of fiery reactions from the Right political spectrum and in the White House where many officials including WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked for the immediate firing of Hill while the network has issued a statement saying that Hill’s tweet was personal and doesn’t reflect the views of ESPN along with an apology from the co-host of SportsCenter at 6.
Even though she had to somewhat apologize for the extent of her tweet, Hill was on point on her criticism of Trump since he’s clearly surrounded by white supremacists who are pushing the country into bigger depths of white supremacy where black people still get treated like second class.
The most frustrating part of it is the fact ESPN president John Skipper has hypocritically stated that Jemele Hill’s tweet has violated the company’s social media policies while he went silent when Michelle Beadle did the exact same thing to defame colleague Stephen A. Smith over his truthful comments on the Ray Rice incident which led to Smith suspension by the network three summers ago.
How come he got suspended but not Michelle Beadle? Oh yeah, I forgot. She’s white women so she’s immune from any punishment although her action is clearly a fireable offense of ESPN social media policies. When white women play the victim card aka Damsel in distress, they get huge sympathies from the stupid crowd. They can even be hailed as a hero by mainstream media with their fake outrage.
Jemele Hill has all the rights to voice her opinions on 45 since she uses her own platform not ESPN/Disney platform and to ask for her resignation or firing is purely hypocritical since Trump has said vile things about black people especially President Obama on his Twitter account quite regularly. The sad irony is that ESPN has been supporting a lot of liberal issues like gay rights, feminism, and immigration but not black people denouncing systemic racism while Fox Sports is allowing Black TV personalities such as Shannon Sharpe and Rob Parker to speak their mind about black issues without any restriction. That says a lot about ESPN’s main company Disney relationship with the Black community worldwide.
I have my issues with Jemele Hill on different subjects but in this case, I stand with her and those who truly can’t stand racism and white supremacy should do the same.