Ok, even I think this is going too far.
ESPN has removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia’s first football game next month because he has the same name as a Confederate general memorialized in statues that are being taken down across the country.
The network announced late Tuesday that the announcer, Robert Lee, a part-time employee who calls about a dozen college football and basketball games a year for ESPN, would no longer participate in the broadcast of the Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville, Va., which became the center of violent clashes this month during a white supremacist gathering.
White nationalists and neo-Nazis flooded into Charlottesville, marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches, to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue of the Confederacy’s top general, Robert E. Lee.
After the violence in Charlottesville, which left one person dead, ESPN executives and Mr. Lee decided that for his safety it would be best to have him to work on a different game that Saturday, a network spokesman said.
“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name,” ESPN said in a statement. “In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play-by-play for a football game has become an issue.”
Your opinion is invalid due to you being white.
Find me the black people who want this guy removed because of his name.
I am not going to try, but I am willing to bet I could find some idiot who happens to be black that wants it. There are idiots in all racial groups.
Yes, there are idiots in all groups, racial or otherwise. There were plenty of rational people who felt ESPN made a mistake in running the auction ad. I’m sure you can find a few nutjob black people (like that Blacks for Trump guy) who think a random white dude named Robert Lee shouldn’t call a basketball game, but that’s not because they’re black, it’s because they’re nutjobs.
I never said white people cannot have any opinions on race.
You have many times said my opinions were invalid due to my race. You have also called my opinions, lectures and accused me of policing black peoples opinions due to my race.
It’s like you don’t or are not capable of understanding words. I never said white people cannot have any opinions on race. That is not the same thing as saying white people should not have opinions on certain specific racial issues. If you can’t understand that I can’t say it any clearer.
In other racial news…
https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/08/15/espn-apology-fantasy-football-auction
Yikes. Great timing.
Is this really that big of a deal? They weren’t selling black people, they were doing a FANTASY auction of football players. It also included white players. According to the article you linked too, auctions are common in fantasy football.
"Auction drafts are a common part of fantasy football, and ESPN’s segments replicated an auction draft with a diverse slate of top professional football players. Without that context, we understand the optics could be portrayed as offensive, and we apologize,” ESPN said in a statement to USA TODAY Sports.
I’ve done Fantasy for many years now and this story proves that if someone does something as simple as taking something out of context, they’ll get offended real quick.
Just once I wish you guys could admit that maybe just maybe black people could have an issue with something that you guys don’t.
Just once I wish that you guys could admit that "maybe just maybe* just because some black people have an issue with something, doesn’t automatically make it a valid complaint.
Ok, good to know. Please be sure to let black people know each time what they are allowed to have an issue with, so they can stop making the same mistake of being offended.
*sigh*
Fact: People sometimes get offended at things that aren’t reasonable to be offended over.
Once again, thanks for clarifying that for black people. I’m sure they feel much better now.
Do disagree with the fact that I stated? Are you saying it never happens that someone gets offended at something that wasn’t reasonable to get offended at? That never happens???
If a black person says they are offended because Jack White won’t change his name to Jack Black, I wouldn’t consider that reasonable. If a black person says they are offended because an ESPN sketch includes something that is reminiscent of a slave auction, I’m not gonna argue.
So you have the right to judge black people’s opinions, but I do not?
You keep trying to make everything a black/white issue (forgive the pun but it fits) with no nuance or flexibility. I never said the majority of the things you are accusing me of saying.