ESPN Punishes Jemele Hill for Challenging the White Status Quo

The Daily Beast ^ | 10.10.17 | Barrett Holmes Pitner

[artichokegrower]

Without batting an eye, America has again normalized the oppressive status quo of requiring African Americans to obtain approval from white people to exercise the First Amendment.

[CommerceComet]

Maybe ESPN is finally realizing that no one watches their channel to hear their lame political diatribes. When someone turns on Sports Center, they want to hear about sports, not politics.

[Common Sense 101]

ESPN Punishes Jemele Hill for Challenging the White Status Quo

Yeah... that's what they did. Stay in your mom's basement, Barrett, the real world is too scary for you to see correctly.

[dowcaet]

Unfortunately I’ve heard her show before on ESPN. A no talent, affirmative action hire if there ever was one. She wouldn’t even he hired by BET with her ghetto talk.The woman ought to be grateful that a major company like ESPN would hire her. Her racist politics aside the woman has no talent and no business being on TV.

[mrsmel]

“Tennessee Titans tight end Delanie Walker said fans upset by team demonstrations during the national anthem can stay home”.

I’m a little surprised that this statement hasn’t gotten a little more traction in the news, because this overpaid retard said in plain English what the others have only intimated. I think people should take him up on his offer, and stay the heck home, or doing anything besides watching the overpaid thugs rattle on about their “oppression”. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if they really did become “oppressed” by their career self-immolation, lost the big bucks which they now make and spend like like water, and wound up like so many others who make too much, too soon, for doing so little (like their fellow thugs or wanna-be thugs, all those cRap “artists”).

[bk1000]

They don’t realize the first amendment is exclusively
to protect speech from government oppression. It has nothing to do with getting fired from a private sector job for being a dumbass.

[mrsmel]

Th sad thing is that white, male, Christians get fired all the time for expressing their personal views on their own time , on their own private media platform. Like the fire chief Kelvin Cochran-

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/01/07/atlanta-fire-chief-was-fired-because-my-christian-faith.html

And so many, many more-

https://www.wayoflife.org/database/homosexualitylegal.html

[BobL]

“Without batting an eye, America has again normalized the oppressive status quo of requiring African Americans to obtain approval from white people to exercise the First Amendment.”

So how are we supposed to have civil debate with people who HATE our country and HATE us to this extent?

[dowcaet]

So true. I was working in the office yesterday and someone had ESPN Radio on and it was the Dan Le Ba(re)tard Show. I listened long enough to hear him say the VP and the President were doing a political stunt in Indy the other night when Pence left the stadium. I turn on ESPN and get CNESPN instead. That network wonders why their ratings are tanking? Jamele Hill, Stephen A. Smith and Dan Le Batard are among the many ESPN personalities who inject their politics into their sports commentary. Enough already!

[RayChuang88]

Despite what a LOT of people--including many here on FR--think, I personally believe Jemelle Hill is effectively done at ESPN. And Michael Smith may "walk" if Hill is terminated. That will be the end of The Six broadcasting experiment--an end that could have profound effects across several ESPN broadcasts.

[proud American in Canada]

America has again normalized the oppressive status quo of requiring African Americans to obtain approval from white people to exercise the First Amendment.

What is this person talking about? I love Larry Elder's show and the wise words from Thomas Sowell. There are plenty of accomplished African Americans (I really liked Herman Cain) in this country.

I don't understand what he is saying. Is there some sort of "white people" commission who determines who can speak? If a person has something interesting to say and finds an audience, it doesn't matter what the color of their skin is.

[cdcdawg]

I’m pretty sure I could be fired for expressing the same view on “gay marriage” that Barack Obama claimed to hold in 2008. My rights don’t count, because I’m white, and not given special protection by the law. But none of this has anything to do with race.

[griswold3]

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

[laweeks]

Naughty naughty
Musn’t do
That’s another foul on you
Bad bad girl

Now don’t worry. You’re black, female, and a big liberal.
Nothing will happen to you. Relax.

[Fhios]

African Americans haven’t reconciled the fact that they are under represented in the upper class and over represented in the criminal class.

Indeed, the successful African Americans seemed to have acquired ‘white privilege’ on their own.

Black professional sports players get themselves all tatted up and their adoring young african american fans follow suite. Being all tatted up doesn’t make for a good impression.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

The ESPN/NFL dumpster fire keeps getting bigger.

[mrsmel]

You most definitely could be fired for that, even if you made your expressions on your own personal time and personal venue. It’s already happened to people for doing exactly that. Just wait until we catch up with Canada, where even what pastors say from the pulpit, or read from the Bible, regarding homosexuals, can get them hauled before the extra-judicial so-called “human rights tribunal”. Just ask Mark Steyn about that, he was forced to fight them for years.

[JayAr36]

ESPN Punishes Jemele Hill for Challenging the White Status Quo

Maybe she ought to ask how she got her job in the first place.

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,, who does she thank she is ?

I’ll tell you ,, she’s just another arrogant black woman who defies all logic and ration and believes only in black power above all else .

,,, so espn gives her a two week paid vacation .

[Hotlanta Mike]

Jamele schlemiel...

[mbynack]

Remember the old days when sports casters only talked about sports and news casters understood the difference between facts and opinions?