ESPN’s Egregious, Decade-Long Track Record Of Politicization Is Ruining Sports TV

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Jemele Hill's HATRED for Caitlin Clark SILENCED following stalker arrest



Journalist Jemele Hill is one of Caitlin Clark’s biggest haters, but after recent news of Clark’s stalker’s arrest, she’s clearly begun to regret that decision and wiped all of her past comments on the WNBA star off social media.

However, the internet never forgets.

“I don’t like to play the Oppression Olympics, but … has CC had to delete her social media accounts? No, but her teammate Aliyah Boston did. CC has given out a few hard shots herself, talked trash, jawed with the refs, and yes any time she is subjected to physical play, a hard foul, or trash talk, opposing players are absolutely villainized,” Hill wrote in now-deleted post on X.

“She is not constantly subjected to racial slurs, and whatever hate she does experience, she is not told to toughen up or that her feelings don’t matter. She is not subjected to both sides-ism, nor are people trying to justify any hatred against her. That’s the difference,” Hill continued.


Hill attempted to delete the tweets after Michael Lewis, 55, was charged with stalking Clark. Prosecutors allege he engaged in a “course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of Caitlin Clark that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized.”

Lewis allegedly sent vulgar and sexually graphic messages to Clark on social media platform X.

While Jason Whitlock and Steve Kim of “Fearless” are grateful Clark’s stalker is having his day in court, they, like the internet, have not forgotten the attack tweets Hill has run on Clark.

“Jemele Hill got busted,” Whitlock says happily. “She got exposed once again.”

“Miss Hill wrote she doesn’t play in the victim Olympics; are you kidding me? She’s won more gold medals than Carl Lewis and Michael Phelps. She’s the greatest of all time at them,” Kim laughs.

“I don’t understand why people, Miss Hill, ever delete their tweets. Do they not realize, and I’ve gone through this, everyone will basically screenshot stuff that you say and just keep it in that folder. They’ll keep it in the draft forever. They have that thing holstered like Wyatt Earp,” Kim adds.

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Jemele Hill tries and fails to defend Mayor Karen Bass on wildfire catastrophe by bashing Kardashians



Former "SportsCenter" anchor Jemele Hill was mocked online after she tried to defend Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' failures by bashing the Kardashians.

Bass has been heavily criticized over the failures that led to the historically disastrous wildfire catastrophe in Southern California. Hill tried to exonerate the Democratic mayor by cherry-picking criticism from Khloé Kardashian.

'It's outrageous! They just needed to stop showering and this whole problem would have been solved!'

Kardashian joined the chorus of voices questioning whether local officials had done enough to save life and property in the historically destructive wildfires. Hill countered by pointing out that the Kardashians had been fined for overuse of water during California's drought, but many mocked and ridiculed her for the poor argument.

"My point was the hypocrisy of Khloe Kardashian calling the mayor out when during a serious drought, her family said screw everybody, we’re going to use as much water as we want. I also believe the Kardashians live in Calabasas, so her mayor isn’t even Karen Bass," she said on social media.

"If the Kardashians would just stop showering, the fire hydrants would be full, the reservoirs would have been filled, and the fires would have been put out!" replied Ryan Gorman on his radio show.

"It's outrageous! They just needed to stop showering and this whole problem would have been solved!" he added.

"Defending historic and tragic incompetence and failed leadership is simply what Leftists do. Gaslighting is the Left's grammar. Without it, they can't push their radical ideas," read one response to Hill.

"Look I don't even like the Kardashians but they don't make LA policies & budget so wtf are you even talking about what it got to do with running a state," said another critic.

Mediaite also pointed out that Hill misled her followers by falsely claiming that a fire department chief had said the opposite of what she actually said.

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Joy Reid ROASTED for finally dumping her ‘Trump haircut’



Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” made an interesting observation about Joy Reid recently, and the MSNBC anchor seems to have noticed.

Whitlock noticed that while Reid and Jemele Hill continuously criticize white women — most recently WNBA star Caitlin Clark — they seem to be trying extremely hard to look like white women.

While Hill wore long blonde braids, Reid sported a short, boyish strawberry blonde cut that has since been dubbed her “Trump haircut.”

“Here’s two black women, dressed as white women to be more marketable on TV. This is just fact. Look at the fake hair that both of these women are wearing. Are they not trying to live up to some standard? Are they not trying to appear like white women to make themselves more marketable on TV?” Whitlock said.

Following Whitlock’s criticism, Reid appears to have done something about her hair.

“Joy Reid has cut her hair,” Whitlock says, triumphant.

“She took the wig off and either cut her hair or exposed what her real hair, what little real hair she has,” he adds.

“I actually appreciate the new look,” Shemeka Michelle chimes in. “I am sick of black women walking around constantly saying white women want to be them, but they’re in white women’s hair.”

“I was tired of looking at Joy Reid and her Trump hairdo,” she adds.


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Jason Whitlock DESTROYS Joy Reid and Jemele Hill for Caitlin Clark HATE



MSNBC’s Joy Reid and fellow race-baiter Jemele Hill — whom Jason Whitlock calls "two delusional black queens" — made some recent comments about WNBA rookie sensation Caitlin Clark.

Of course, these comments were as bigoted as they consistently claim others to be.

“Somebody very smart said to me recently that the challenge with women’s basketball is that most of the great players are black, but most of the stars are white,” Reid said to Hill. “And like you said, if there were charter flights, Britney Griner would not have ended up in the gulag, right?”

Whitlock is not a fan.

Not only does he note that Reid ridiculously blamed Griner’s arrest on the WNBA not having charter flights, but that both Reid and Hill are “trying desperately to look like white women.”

“Why do I bring this up? Because when I talk about bigotry over business, the bigotry and the hostility stems from [the fact that] these women hate themselves and hate that they’re not white women,” Whitlock says. “Why else would you put on some cheap wig, some horse's hair, over the top of your head to look like a white woman?”

"They're so full of jealousy and rage towards white women. Anybody that would hop on TV day after day with these ridiculous wigs on is telling you everything you need to know about their mentality as it relates to white women," he adds.

Reid then brought up the “marketability” of Caitlin Clark.

“This is a league that is largely, as you said, black women. It’s also largely LGBTQ. She’s a white, heterosexual woman. And so, if you’re trying to get white dads to go spend their money and buy season tickets, she seems like a marketing opportunity. How much of it is that?” Reid asks Hill.

“I don’t know why people find that to be controversial,” Hill answers, noting that while Clark is talented, “it helps that she’s white, straight, and from Iowa.”

“So, when you say that Caitlin Clark’s whiteness and the fact that she’s straight plays a role, underlining a role, in her popularity, that’s not a diss to Caitlin Clark. It’s just simply America,” she adds.

Again, Whitlock finds it interesting that while discussing Clark’s marketability due to the color of her skin, both Hill and Reid have altered their appearance to seem more white. Both of them have significantly lightened their hair to appear blonde.

“Here’s two black women, dressed as white women to be more marketable on TV. This is just facts,” Whitlock comments.


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Squires: Jemele Hill uses rapper Young Dolph to argue that white oppressors must save black America



If black Americans want to see a reversal of the troubling trends preventing our progress, we need to revisit and remake the rap song "Self-Destruction."

The cultural call to action was released in January 1989 as the only single by the Stop the Violence Movement formed by KRS-One. The rapper created the collaboration in response to violence in the black community. The issue was personal for the rapper because his close friend DJ Scott La Rock was murdered in 1987. The song featured a number of hip-hop pioneers, including MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Heavy D, and Public Enemy.

The hook, "self-destruction, you're headed for self-destruction," plays after every verse. One of the song's most memorable lines was delivered by Kool Moe Dee.

"Back in the '60s our brothers and sisters were hanged. How could you gang-bang? / I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan and I shouldn't have to run from a black man."

Anyone watching the music video today would be struck by how open the artists, mostly men, are about naming the problem and taking responsibility for addressing it through the platform they had at the time.

The loss of strong male leadership and an unwillingness to courageously confront obvious issues are slowly draining the black community of its energy, spirit, and resolve. Only a great awakening can reverse that trend.

The recent murder of rap artist Young Dolph provided another opportunity to honestly confront the violence in hip-hop. Dolph, born Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., was shot and killed while buying cookies in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. The murder of Young Dolph was addressed on "The Breakfast Club," and one of the radio show's co-hosts said that fans of hip-hop glorify and celebrate all the wrong things, then wonder why atrocities like this happen.

That admission alone was a major breakthrough.

Rap is a relatively young genre, but the fact remains that 51% of deceased rappers were murdered. Homicide does not account for more than 10% of deaths in any other genre. Young Dolph, 36, was older than many of the rappers on this unfortunate list, but several rappers, from the Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur to King Von and Pop Smoke, were in their early to mid-20s. If the keepers of hip-hop culture don't deal with its violence problem, the genre won't exist in 20 years.

The sad reality is that hip-hop culture is a microcosm of America. The statistics for deceased rappers match the 50% of black males between the ages of 15 and 24 for whom homicide is the leading cause of death. At 13% of the population and about 50% of murder victims, the homicide rate for black Americans is about seven times higher than the rate for white Americans. Many of these victims are innocent bystanders and children. In fact, there are many more black schoolchildren shot and killed every year than unarmed black men fatally shot by the police.

The glorification of violence in rap music is deeply embedded in the art form and culture. That means there are a lot of people — including many black artists, DJs, producers, and executives — who would lose money if shows like "The Breakfast Club" ever took a stand and refused to promote any artist who made murder music to a catchy beat. They also have no incentive to change because the public, including many of the same black people who claimed Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer, have no problem bopping their heads to black men who brag about "shooting n*ggas" 20 times in a three-minute video.

There is another reason black people across the country are headed for self-destruction: the abandonment of any sense that we are responsible for addressing any of the issues plaguing our communities.

This allergic reaction to responsibility is often paired with rhetoric about all the systemic issues that need to be fixed in order for black people to expect peace in our neighborhoods.

An Instagram post from Jemele Hill after Young Dolph was murdered captured this line of reasoning perfectly. In it, Hill quickly claimed the notion of "black-on-black crime" is rooted in racist ideas about inherent black criminality. She then talked about a recent change in Tennessee gun laws that allows people to carry handguns without a permit. She also claimed that institutional racism contributed to the violence, in the form of higher rates of poverty and fewer resources for education and housing. She ended her post with these words:

"Fix the issues that invite violence, and we will lose less people. But when you have entire communities full of people who are hopeless and feel like they have nothing to lose, violence will be a mainstay."

Hill never said who is responsible for fixing these issues, but given my familiarity with this line of reasoning, I'm certain she means the white people who black liberals generally claim are in charge of most American institutions.

This cannot continue. The mentality that says that black people must have material needs provided for by benevolent actors in the government and other institutions in order not to kill one another is a recipe for turning free people into wards of the state.

This needed change will also require addressing another group — the guilty white liberals who think it's their job to rescue the black community. They see black people as damsels in distress and themselves as white knights fresh out of anti-racism training. These are the types who are always criticizing "whiteness" and harassing other white people online about being better allies and comrades.

I often speak about the connection between these guilty white liberals and the self-professed oppressed class of black liberals. Those two groups have a symbiotic relationship with each other and a parasitic relationship with everyone else. The learned helplessness of the black elite is working its way into every corner of black culture.

That is why anyone who focuses on the things black people can do today to improve our chances of success in this country (e.g., marriage before children) should expect to be accused of "letting white people off the hook."

I don't say any of this from a place of disdain or hatred. Quite the opposite — I say it from a place of love. Love protects, but it also corrects. Any father who doesn't correct his children can't say that he loves them. This principle is applicable in other contexts as well. The book of Proverbs says, "The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." Ignoring self-destructive behavior allows it to spread.

Members of the black leadership class know this. They practice discipline. They just focus it in the wrong place. They have no problem telling white people to abandon their "privilege," to take responsibility for sins they didn't commit, or that "silence is violence." What they will not do under any circumstances is use their bully pulpit to demand that black lives must matter to black people first before they matter to anyone else.

This is not a denial of the ugly history of racism in America. It is a realization that it is unrealistic to expect someone to treat my life as priceless when I treat it as worthless.

If the Black Lives Matter movement was serious, protesters would take their fight to abortion clinics, record labels, radio stations, and the communities where a small number of young men have no problem shooting at their enemies on crowded streets in broad daylight.

They would also know that any group that thinks it can subvert God's plan for the family — husband, wife, and children — and thrive over multiple generations is fooling itself. No amount of guilt-inspired donations can replace the impact of strong, stable, and loving families.

Black leaders in previous generations fought for freedom and equality. Today's most influential black outlets fight for cultural paternalism. They act as if low-income black people have no agency. Even the young rappers of the 1980s knew better. They made direct moral appeals to their peers because they believed it was possible for people, even those in difficult economic circumstances, to distinguish between right and wrong.

If love is measured by attention and correction, then it is clear black liberals love white liberals more than life itself. It's time they wake up and realize they are taking us down a path of self-destruction.

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