Please don’t.
Red’s Army wants her gone because she wrote the following:
Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.
No one deserves to lose their perch for a media conglomerate for using dated 80s references AND for having editors who let you use those references. I mean, she could have written Mugabe or Saddam Hussein if she wanted to be a little bit topical. It is 2008, right?
And clearly, she is beyond passionate in her hate for all things Celtics. So what? The hate doesn’t change the fact that they massacred the Lakers in Game 6, does it? (I watched Game 6 again to revel in the humiliation!)
The passion is one of the reasons why ESPN hired her for $400,000 over two years.
Passionate people can be annoying, entertaining, provocative, rage inducing but never ever boring. Isn’t that what we want from sports writers?
Apologizing for an error in judgment [ESPN Page 2]
8 responses so far ↓
Detroit's Smirking Revenge // June 25, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Jemele Hill 9/11′d the Boston Community.
HEY-O!
TallulahBankhead // June 25, 2008 at 2:58 pm
and after Jemele Hill did that … the world exploded and we are no more.
The end.
Kimpy // July 15, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Really, Jemele Hill NEEDS to be fired. She writes racist, biased, ridiculous columns and believes everyone thinks everyone is racist against blacks.
TallulahBankhead // July 17, 2008 at 9:44 am
Kimpy…
i think she was hired for those reasons, though.
Marus // August 8, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Tallulah- She was hired to represent the view point of African-American female sports fans. Nothing more and nothing less…
As an African-American, I can tell you that I have yet to meet a female who is as biased and racial as she is when it comes to sports….
Sports is where we have the highest representation, salaries, and ceiling for success.
As a sports fan I can also tell you that the majority of her articles are not well researched. Case in point her Hitler article, where the worst atrocity in my opinion was deeming the Celtics as a racist franchise. The Celtics of course to be the first professional sports team with an all African-American line-up of starters and the first NBA team to hire an African American coach. Very ignorant of her in imho.
TallulahBankhead // August 8, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Marus …
you bring up great points..I will have to ask why does ESPN allow for such lack in basic story research flourish…
is Jemele the poster child affirmative action hire?
Are her managers at ESPN/DISNEY suffering under the delusion that mediocrity is the best Jemele can do?
Again, I’m not saying she’s mediocre but if that’s your take…tell me your thoughts on why she’s allowed to thrive at ESPN?
Marus // August 9, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Tallulah –
I don’t think she is thriving, there is already indication that the two year contract she had signed will not be renewed.
Five years ago ESPN just had Stuart Scott.. I don’t really consider Jemele an affirmative action hire as much as a hire to attract a large percentage of the sports viewing audience….African American viewers. This is not far fetched logic as you have to keep in mind that ESPN launched an entirely separate channel for the latin community.
Again… Jemele is not thriving at ESPN… In fact IMHO the only reason she has not been fired is because of her race, which in this case is protecting her. Disney simply will allow her contract to run out vs. risking the chance of being labeled racist for firing her.
TallulahBankhead // August 10, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Marus…
given the current economic health of journalism …. I think Jemele is thriving compared to her underemployed/unemployed
colleagues.
http://angryjournalist.com/?page_id=4&cp=179