http://eagnews.org/black-students-accuse-uscs-horse-mascot-traveler-of-racism/
Posted on 08/22/2017 6:00:00 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Apparently, even being Asian doesn’t mean people won’t take you for being a white nationalist.
According to the popular college-football blog Outkick the Coverage, ESPN pulled an Asian announcer from calling a University of Virginia football game. The announcer’s name is Robert Lee.
“Did I mention that Robert Lee is Asian?” blogger Clay Travis asked rhetorically in a post that poured scorn over the popular sports network for political correctness, calling it “MSESPN.”
Citing “multiple Outkick fans inside ESPN,” Mr. Travis said Mr. Lee was pulled from the Cavaliers Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville against William and Mary “because they were concerned that having an ASIAN FOOTBALL ANNOUNCER NAMED ROBERT LEE would be offensive to some viewers.”
The fatal violence in Charlottesville earlier this month grew out of a white-nationalist and neo-Nazi march in favor of keeping up a statue of Robert E. Lee — “the Confederate General who died in 1870 and shares a name with” the ESPN announcer, Mr. Travis helpfully explained.
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The hubris of American sports, players and broadcasters is overwhelming.
This move is proof positive that sports broadcasting is managed by morons. Just dipshits in expensive suits.
Well, what side did his family fight for during the Civil War?
This is about as absurd as the school district who suspended a little girl who brought a Tweety bird key chain to school because the district had a zero tolerance weapons policy.
They would have been hammered by the left for the coincidence of the guy’s name, Virginia, and all the current snowflakery. They are just getting out in front of the criticism.
Or maybe Jeb Stewart.
Know a family with last name of Gay that all had their names changed.
this is getting out of hand.I hope Mr Lee tells ESPN where they can shove their job
Very niggardly of ESPN.
Crazy.
These folks are like the people in the 70s playing record albums backwards looking for satanic messages. If you look hard enough...
Thanks, I didn’t know there had been so many incidents.
I don’t think anyone in his family was around at that time. In case you’re not joking, the guy is Asian.
We aren’t allowed to know.
In had some friends named Dick and Gay Lynch. I kid you not.
It’s Disney. It’s ABC. Of course they’re leftists.
http://eagnews.org/black-students-accuse-uscs-horse-mascot-traveler-of-racism/
If anyone heard Mark Steyn substituting for Rush Limbaugh yesterday, he was making a joke about if your name is Robert, or Lee, or have the middle initial E, you must be a racist. Maybe the guy could call himself Bob Lee.
*facepalm*
I was offended by the name Obama for 8 years. Can we strike his name from the history books?
I saw that story, and I just had to laugh at your post.
It's not.
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