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John Skipper, the President of ESPN, has released a memo to employees addressing the continuing
shit show caused by Jemele Hill tweeting that Trump and his white supremacist sympathies
are emboldening violent racists across the country.
In the statement, Skipper reminded ESPN employees that they are to only speak of sports and
not politics on their social media accounts, writing.
"ESPN is not a political organization.
[W]e have social media policies which require people to understand that social platforms
are public and their comments on them will reflect on ESPN.
At a minimum, comments should not be inflammatory or personal.
We had a violation of those standards in recent days and our handling of this is a private
matter."
ESPN's reprimand of Jemele Hill is a stark reminder of how white supremacy is in firm
control of the entertainment media complex.
Hill's tweets call out exactly the position Skipper and ESPN has taken in the memo.
Hill remarked that white people are afforded the privilege of being apolitical under a
white supremacist society as the violence, bigotry, and hate that stems from such a system
does not hurt the group that is in power.
Hill wrote;
"The height of white privilege is being able to ignore his white supremacy, because it's
of no threat to you.
Well, it's a threat to me."
In an absolutely unprecedented move, the White House responded directly to Hill's tweets.
Trump tweeted out a condemnation of Hill rather than one of the white supremacy she called
out.
Trump, in typical Trump fashion, claimed without any proof that ESPN's ratings were suffering
due to Hill's comments.
"ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming).
People are dumping it in RECORD numbers.
Apologize for untruth!"
Square-headed substitute math teacher and Trump mouthpiece, Sarah Huckabee Sanders told
reporters that that a tweet from Hill calling the president a "white supremacist" was
a "fireable offense" but now Sanders has been hit with an ethics complaint following
for Hill's firing.
The Democratic Coalition, a super PAC filed an ethic complaint against the current White
House Press secretary.
According to the Wrap,
"When Sarah Huckabee Sanders called for Jemele Hill to be fired by ESPN, she crossed
the line and put herself in dubious legal territory.
For Sanders to publicly call for the dismissal of a Trump critic is bizarre and disturbing,
to say the least.If anyone is to be fired, it should be her."
The PAC cited a federal law, which states that certain government employees — including
any executive branch employee — are prohibited from influencing the employment decisions
or practices of a private entity or company "solely on the basis of partisan political
affiliation."
Breaking the law is punishable by a fine or up to 15 years in prison, or both.
If you want to read John Skipper's full statement, it's up now on CNN.
That's all for now, for everything else subscribe to Complex on YouTube, for Complex News, I'm
Hanuman Welch.
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