Compare this situation with Jemele Hill. I don't see a double-standard.
In a 2007 column about Barry Bonds, Jemele herself admitted to playing the race card, writing that it’s “somewhere in my back pocket, but I’ll play that later on.” [ed – fair warning. Dr. King really just wanted people to openly admit that they were planning to be racist and offensive to each other at some point in the future].
JUNE 20, 2008- ESPN’s Jemele Hill wrote this past Saturday that, "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."
2008 NBA Playoffs, Jemele was suspended from her writing post after referencing Adolf Hitler in an article about the Boston Celtics (the then-NBA champions) and the Detroit Pistons.
A slow learner, Jemele was at the center of another controversy in 2009, after she told Green Bay Packers fans to give Brett Favre the “Duracell treatment,” actually suggesting that fans at Lambeau Field throw batteries at the former quarterback. Later that year, Jemele once again should have put her foot in her mouth when she was reprimanded for her comments that compared University of Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball coach John Calipari to Charles Manson.
Earlier this year, ESPN sent a memo to its employees that tells them to refrain from making political statements. But it seems as if the policy has a double standard.
Jemele Hill, a co-host on ESPN2's His & Hers, tweeted Sunday that it's wrong for Americans to condemn homophobia in Islamic cultures, given the discrimination that gay people have faced in the United States. The tweet was a response to the reaction following the Orlando shootings, where a gunman pledged allegiance to ISIS before killing 49 people and wounding 53 more inside of a popular gay nightclub early Sunday morning.
An ESPN spokesperson said Hill's tweet doesn't violate the company's edict, despite its political overtones. That's hypocritical in comparison to how the network handled Curt Schilling's anti-transgender rant on Facebook earlier this spring, which resulted in his dismissal.
She made headlines last fall when she accused President Donald Trump of being a white supremacist in a tweet. Hill faced no punishment by the network.
A few weeks later, Hill called on ESPN viewers to boycott the Dallas Cowboys after owner Jerry Jones announced he would bench any player who didn’t stand for the national anthem.
