Jemele and Mike

It's a comment that comes from a place of privilege. She might be a black female in trump's America, but she has a perch of privilege. In as much as Beyoncé or Oprah do. Doubt you'd see a black lunch lady making that comment. If she thinks sports are a waste of time in this climate, then maybe she should quit her job and go work for something more weighty. Or maybe she could actually use her privileged perch to say something that resonates. That makes people think. Instead, she just repeated what a lot of people already think. If you're gonna go out on a limb, ya might as well do something on the limb. Instead all we are really talking about is her past and her future. Her present is simply an HR question.

 

That's about the best way I've seen it stated yet.

 

When he talks to me like my dad did when I was 3, I could just hug the stuffin's out of him.

 

Actually, given the subject matter, I think we should go with

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As soon as Team Fucko dispenses with Jemele, next they take on Superman:

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/sup...in-a-trump-inspired-installment-of-the-comic/

 

Lovely writing. Of course it's accurate that the White House should have better things to do than to opine on whether Jemele Hill is employed.

I have to wonder - I have no choice but to wonder - whether Pierce writes this corresponding piece if he doesn't agree, in entirety, with Hill's premise.

Jemele Hill, the gifted young woman who co-hosts ESPN’s The Six every night with my old Morrissey Boulevard running buddy Michael Smith, got on her electric Twitter machine and tweeted out her unremarkable—and damned near irrefutable—opinion that the current president of the United States is a racist and a white supremacist.

and

"I agreed with everything Hill tweeted. I thought what she said should be obvious to everyone in America at this point."

When a journalist suggests it's "unremarkable" for a sports show host to go on a rant about Trump, his cabinet and his voters - labeling the first two and suggesting the latter are all comprised of white supremacists - well, it's his opinion, and that's all it is. It's remarkable.

(And, once more, I still believe Hill's definition of white supremacy is not the "he's a neo-Nazi" perspective. I think she's embracing the emergent definition of white supremacy that says if you're not actively protesting the Trump administration, you're contributing to white supremacy.)

 

And the last straw for Schilling was retweeting a visually disturbing and highly insensitive image. That image conveyed a level of vitriol about a group of people. Hill's comments were directed at one person because of his words and actions, not because of status or physical traits.

 

Pierce is turning into a caricature.

 

Fascinating that a Republican administration is telling a private business what to do. Because, you know, the GOP has such a long history of supporting governmental intervention and regulation of business.