After Jemele Hill went on a twitter rant to call out Donald Trump for being a white supremacist, ESPN attempted to replace her for Wednesday’s showing of The Six.
Monday (September 11th), Jemele Hill sent out a thread of tweets criticizing Donald Trump for being “ignorant,” a “bigot” and more.
Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
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.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
He has surrounded himself with white supremacists — no they are not “alt right” — and you want me to believe he isn’t a white supremacist?
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
He is unqualified and unfit to be president. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 12, 2017
Donald Trump is a bigot. Glad you could live with voting for him. I couldn’t, because I cared about more than just myself
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 12, 2017
After the set of tweets, the White House called on ESPN to fire Jemele Hill from the network. As of today, ESPN has not relieved Hill of her job, but they did attempt to replace her with another black co-host for Wednesday’s showing of The Six. According to Think Progress, hours before the show, ESPN reached out to Michael Eves and Elle Duncan to replace Hill but they both refused. Co-host, Michael Smith also refused to show up to the show if Jemele Hill was not a part of the show.
After the backlash that Hill took, she addressed the ‘elephant in the room’ on twitter.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>So, to address the elephant in the room … <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Facts?src=hash”>#Facts</a> <a href=”https://t.co/RTrIDD87ut”>pic.twitter.com/RTrIDD87ut</a></p>— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href=”https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/908173152370520064″>September 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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ESPN’s spokesperson Josh Krulewitz denies that the company attempted to replace Hill, but no further information has been released regarding the story.
