Posted on 09/02/2016 9:34:40 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
ESPN sports pundit Paul Finebaum apologized for saying black people aren’t oppressed in America.
“I really don’t understand, not to look at the country back then, this country has issues, but this country is not oppressing black people,” Finebaum said during an appearance on ESPN.
He is now backing off of his comments.
“I could spend the rest of my life trying to talk my way out of it, but I can’t. I blew it. I simply did not have a good grasp of the situation. I know better. I’ve lived in this country. I see what is going on all across the country from north to south, east to west, and I have no excuse,” the outspoken pundit said.
Yep, Kapernick is being defended by every last ESPN pundit. No diversity of opinion on SJW matters is tolerated over there.
This is masterful Orwellian misdirection.
The first black president has failed to revive the economy to improve the lives of the people that believed in him.
Because he failed, it is the country’s foundation that is to blame for those economic conditions, not racism.
The fact that so many highly paid people have swallowed the hook on this lie is mind boggling. The way out of this twisted maze is hard to imagine.
by the soft bigotry of low expectations. gwb was right about that one.
The only thing oppressing black people is the fact that a significant majority of them are born into what used to be called “broken homes,” those without a married mother and father. That factor predicts future failure even more than race.
Where are the Hispanic, Pacific Islander, & Asian people on ESPN?
The way out, I say, is simply straight up.
It might be dawning even on Black Panthers like this Quanelle chap, that Donald Trump is right. All the pet plans of Democrat liberals have given what ought to be a very dignified tribe of humans more and more misery.
Who’s been keeping the black man down? He’s been talked into keeping himself down, by a bunch of liars with pants on fire heading to hell. I think the black man is very right to be indignant about this.
Combine that with tendencies to self-fulfilling prophecy and we have a morass.
So the blacks ought to go to some country that doesn’t oppress them.
Oh, there aren’t any? I wonder why?
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.
Disney/ESPN should just stick the “Matters” tag at the end of every one of their shows
FIRST TAKE MATTERS
SPORTSNATION MATTERS
PARDONTHEINTERRUPTION MATTERS
AROUNDTHEHORN MATTERS ad nauseum
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.
2015 government employment stats belie his statement.
Executive Branch Employment by Gender and Race/National Origin
35.4% of executive branch positions held by minorities.
17.7% are black.
Black adult working age population is what, about 7-8% of the total? They are overrepresented.
What is ironic is - if Finebaum was a black man - he would not need to apologize.
Who’s oppressed again?
Hah, Mr SEC steps in it.
Black oppression is almost all self-inflicted in a look-at-me way trying to gain unearned credibility.
This from the network that broadcasts more black millionaires than white.
Guess he chose to maintain his paycheck over his free expression of his opinions.
His groveling, sniveling, apology was pathetic. He has no balls. What a pitiful excuse for a man. He must talk healthcare in his pajamas during the weekend.
Love these libs getting no love from other libs!
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