Surprised? ESPN Calls Jemele Hill's White Supremacist Remarks About Trump "Inappropriate"

Surprised? ESPN Calls Jemele Hill’s White Supremacist Remarks About Trump “Inappropriate”

September 13, 2017

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In a Twitter rant earlier this week ESPN‘s Jemele Hill called Donald Trump a “white supremacist” and the sports network quickly slammed the veteran host for her “inappropriate” actions.

ESPN Statement on Jemele Hill: pic.twitter.com/3kfexjx9zQ

— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) September 12, 2017

So what made the network issue such a swift statement? Read Hill’s comments below.

Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017

Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017

He has surrounded himself with white supremacists — no they are not "alt right" — and you want me to believe he isn't a white supremacist?

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017

He is unqualified and unfit to be president. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 12, 2017

Stop us when she’s wrong.

Since ESPN issued its statement several celebrities have spoken out on Hill’s behalf, including Kathy Griffin, who found herself under fire for posting a beheaded Trump earlier this year.

SHE IS CORRECT. EVERYONE KNOWS IT! @AP ESPN abandons anchor Jemele Hill's tweets after she called Trump "a white supremacist" and "a bigot."

— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) September 13, 2017

Conversation around whether Hill should be using her platform to speak out against social injustices remains unknown, but she has made it clear that it’s difficult to separate sports and politics given how the two have intermingled.

Earlier this year she told Yahoo Finance that she was frustrated with the ongoing story line but saw no way out of it.

“The athletes are dragging us here. I didn’t ask (NFL free agent quarterback) Colin Kaepernick to kneel — he did it on his own. So, was I supposed to act like I didn’t? (San Antonio Spurs coach) Gregg Popovich every week at his press conference is having a 10-minute soliloquy on (President) Donald Trump. Am I supposed to act like he’s not doing that? You have athletes saying they’re going to the White House, they’re not going to the White House. That’s all sports news. It didn’t just start with this generation of athletes; it’s just always been that way.”

TELL US: Fair or foul?

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