Mr. Finebaum is an unretired late middle age WHITE man working in an industry with a very large African-American population. His sudden reversal is hardly surprising. For a few moments, he had a spine. Then HR and management removed it.
It will be interesting to see how liberated, if any, Skip Bayless, who left ESPN for FOX, is once his show begins this month on FOX.
I know how he always talked about our wonderful Black president on ESPN. Wondering how much of that was ESPN regimentation and being paired with Stephan A. Smith - who himself had to swallow some humble pie suspension for his remarks on women’s dress inviting sexual harassment.