Fool Me Once....ESPN Suspends Jemele Hill

Jemele Hill has apologized for her feelings before - to the Duke lacrosse team:   “I never wrote it, but I felt it…if there is anything to be learned from Don Imus' fall, it's that real apologies are never accompanied by rationalizations…I'm sorry…It's not enough, and I won't pretend that it is…Not that this is a contest to see who was wronged the most, but the Rutgers women's basketball team at least received justice, because Imus was suspended and dropped by MSNBC, which simulcasts his morning show. Plenty of people are outraged on their behalf…I can't deny that your race, gender and class have everything to do with how you were treated then and how you are treated now.” 

In April, 2007 Hill called for Don Imus to lose his job for his on-air remark referring to the Rutgers women's basketball team as “nappy-headed hos”.  Her solution?  “He is routinely offensive to people of color and women and if he needs to lose his job to understand there is no place for that, so be it.”  Jemele, you need to speak to ESPN HR about how to deal with intolerance. 

ESPN's Failure, "It Feels Good to Hate" 

ESPN apologizes for Hill’s Hitler comparison by explaining “our system of checks and balances failed Jemele and our readers and we are addressing that as well”. What a joke!  ESPN published a Hill column from December 26^th, 2007 on her feelings about the Celtics - “Hating is Good”.  Hill wrote one of the two things that defined her childhood was the Boston Celtics – “The other (Celtics) I hated with every human fiber.” And “so I can bear the nausea of seeing the Celtics rise again because they’ve jump-started my hate cable, which hasn’t been this revved up since the late ‘80s…Man, it feels good to hate.”

From Hill’s column “Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics” on June 15^th

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