Sunday, September 17, 2017

The Kettle is burnt.

ESPN prevented Asian American Robert Lee from announcing a Virginia college football game out of fears his birth name was racially insensitive but the very same network has allowed Jemele Hill to continue working despite calling President Trump and his supporters white supremacists and Nazis. Sadly, such unforgivable hypocrisy is hardly a coincidence considering the "The ESPYs" once gave their annual Arthur Ashe Courage Award to a 55 year-old, cross-dressing celebrity instead of a female college basketball player who eventually died battling cancer or a double-amputee war veteran turned champion triathlete. There is syndicated insanity and then there is choreographed political terrorism masquerading as social progress. Change the channel, cut your cable cord or end your ESPN subscription until their producers no longer justify insulting millions of sports fans - the very country that affords us the opportunities to enjoy such sporting events with family and friends - while religiously honoring an unemployed quarterback who calls all police officers "pigs" and America "racist" for not celebrating a jaded, millionaire bigot who proudly mocks our national anthem, ignores the unrivaled ravages of black-on-black crime and incites civil unrest with unbridled glee. No show is worth your dignity, the universal values we teach our children, let alone those innocent lives lost amidst the violent aftermath of such irresponsible rhetoric. Hate doesn't need a misguided sports anchor to confirm its existence; it merely requires a morally bankrupt medium to spread the false narrative that injustice is a one-way street. Until Jemele Hill is fired and this incessant glorification of Colin Kaepernick ends, I refuse to even consider watching another second of their shameless political subversion of the games I have loved since a kid.

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