The racialization of ESPN is prevalent behind the scenes as well. ESPN has disproportionately promoted and hired black talents over white, Hispanic and Asians for two years. Last year, former ESPN talent Maria Taylor used her leverage as a black woman to try and strongarm the network into giving her an $8 million a year contract offer, well above her market value. ESPN countered with $5 million, but Taylor declined and left for NBC. Even ESPN’s white guilt has its limits.
And yet, ESPN still pretends as though black people are underrepresented on air, even though nearly every show on the network is over 50% black on any given day. Furthermore, shows like First Take and NBA Today are almost exclusively black. It’s clear that ESPN doesn’t undermine black people, but that doesn’t matter to critics. So ESPN overcorrects each year, hiring and promoting more and more black on-air talent, while ignoring candidates of other races.
Meanwhile, Dan Orlovsky and Mina Kimes are the only pundits in a featured “opinion” role who are under 40 and not black. The only two. So anyone who hasn’t already been grandfathered in like Max Kellerman and Tony Kornheiser has no shot.
The author fails to mention the two White people he listed are KIKES.
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