Black Conservatives Rebuke ESPN on Trump White Supremacist Claims

Jemele Hills Allegations Hurt Race Relations and the ESPN Brand Washington DC - After ESPN host Jemele Hill tweeted that President Donald Trump and his supporters are white supremacists black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network are criticizing Hill for her wild and incendiary allegations.  They further fault the Disney-owned sports network for fostering liberal extremism at the risk of driving away viewers and sponsors.
Jemele Hill is not only hurting her own credibility by feeding the hate machine disrupting our nation but she is causing more harm in a divided America.  Her outbursts seem nothing more than the epitome of the racism she so ardently seeks to call out said Project 21 member Richard Holt a political consultant.  Ms. Hills comments harm the cases of Americans who have been victims of actual racism and keep us from moving into a post-racial society.  Has the fight for civil rights and full emancipation for blacks in America been so successful that we have nothing left to do but malign white conservatives for their political views?  Ms. Hill isnt wrong to dissent but she picked the wrong method to do it.
Hill a host of ESPNs SC6 program recently used her personal Twitter account to send out a series of tweets calling President Trump ignorant offensive a bigot unqualified and a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself with other white supremacists.  ESPN subsequently said her tweets do not represent the position of ESPN and that the network discussed them with Hill. Although the tweets conflict with the networks social media policy directing staff to avoid personal attacks and inflammatory rhetoric it seems no disciplinary action will be taken.  In April 2016 ESPNfired Curt Schilling  for tweeting his opposition to allowing transgendered individuals to use any bathroom they choose with the network declaring such conduct was unacceptable at the time.
Its fortunate for Ms. Hill that she is in a triple-protected group in this country.  She is African-American she is female and she is liberal. Anyone else making similar inflammatory comments would have been immediately suspended and of course later terminated said Project 21 member Christopher Arps a principal with Red Tail Strategies and co-founder of the Move-On-Up.org black social network.  The double standard is glaring and it only heightens racial resentment and tension. ESPN was once a sports powerhouse that garnered respect and millions of viewers but this latest sad chapter only magnifies the decline of a once-great network.  What she did and the networks failure to adequately address it further harms a network suffering a loss of viewers like me who are tired of the rampant political bias.
Earlier this year the Free Enterprise Project  another program of Project 21s parent organization the National Center for Public Policy Research addressed liberal bias at ESPN during the Walt Disney Companys annual shareholder meeting.  Warned about reputational harm inherent in singling out President Trump and his supporters for criticism Disney Chairman Bob Iger said claims of bias at ESPN were completely exaggerated.
Jemele Hills dog whistle blew a deafening twitter crescendo that unsurprisingly echoes Hillary Clintons denunciation of her loss as proof of lurking white nationalism said Project 21 member Nadra Enzi a community activist in New Orleans.  It seems to be yet another shot of adrenaline for liberals still catatonic over President Trumps victory.
To book an interview with a member of Project 21 about this or other nonpartisan issues affecting black America contact Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476. Project 21 a leading voice of black conservatives for 25 years is sponsored by theNational Center for Public Policy Research.  Its members have been quoted interviewed or published over 40000 times since the program was created in 1992.  Contributions to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated and may be earmarked exclusively for the use of Project 21. Founded in 1982 the National Center for Public Policy Research is a non-partisan free-market independent conservative think-tank.  Ninety-four percent of its support comes from some 60000 individuals less than four percent from foundations and less than two percent from corporations. Sign up for email updates here.  Follow us on Twitter at@NationalCenter for general announcements.  To be alerted to upcoming media appearances by National Center staff follow our media appearances Twitter account at@NCPPRMedia.
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