Jemele Hill, an ESPN host, came under fire recently for calling Donald Trump a white supremacist on Twitter.
But she wasn’t actually fired for her comments.
And that’s where this story takes off.
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On September 11, Hill fired off three consecutive tweets calling Trump out.
Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.
The tweet was a response to a story about Kid Rock being mad that the media label him a racist. The same Kid Rock who was invited by Trump to the White House.
Hill, a black woman, had strong words about the proclivity of the president to side with racists and white supremacists.
Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.
After the domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Trump very clearly defended white supremacists when he said there were “some very fine people on both sides.”
While he walked back those comments, he later defended them again.
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It's easy to understand why there's the belief that Trump has facilitated this kind of hate.
The height of white privilege is being able toignore
It’s because he has.
And those who don’t realize it probably don’t because they aren’t experiencing racism first hand. Because they’re privileged.
These tweets didn't quite go over well.
Both Hill and ESPN have made statements expressing regret for the way in which she presented these comments, but the network so far has made no move to punish her further.
But when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about the incident a couple days later, she made some shocking, overreaching comments…
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