Project Veritas Exposes ESPN’s Ugly Racist Reality – Opinion

Here at the Sports desk located somewhere below decks of the Good Pirate Ship RedState, we prefer our sports reporting to be actual reporting about…  you know, sports. Victories, accomplishments, championships. We watch sports for the entertainment. Entertainment. We can admire the achievements and abilities of athletes. As was said way back at the beginning, ball don’t lie and ball don’t care about skin color either. So why would we want to?

You can tell ESPN. Last year’s Maria Taylor versus Rachel Nichols tiff was an indicator of the disease that permeates the self-proclaimed worldwide leader in sports. Project Veritas’s work and the bravery of an ESPN employee have exposed all the racism and sexism that is rampant across the network.

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From Project Veritas’ letter:

Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:

• Whistleblower-recorded audio and video show numerous ESPN employees discussing what they see as a toxic, racist workplace environment which directly contradicts the image that ESPN tries to project.
• In one clip, a black studio operator discusses, “the racial shit that happens in here all the time.” In another clip, a black woman working as an audio communications specialist says “that’s not how it is” when addressing the difference between ESPN’s workplace environment and social justice image.
• On-air talent Alyson Lang, who covers the SEC for ESPN: “I know the comments that have been made to me at work and the conversations that have been had in front of me at work, like, I mean just blatantly racist sh*t. Just blatantly, like, complaining to me that we have three white hosts, and I’m like, ‘What do you want me – do you want me to leave?’”
• On-air talent Matt Schick, who’s been with ESPN since 2012, said, “It has different connotations now,” when talking about what it’s like to tell people he works for ESPN. In the next soundbite, he calls ESPN, “a global entity of forced thought.”
• The whistleblower, ESPN Studio Operator Trevor Adams, sent a company-wide email outlining these concerns and was subsequently identified by the company as a “threat” which resulted in law enforcement being sent to his home. Project Veritas tried to reach him for comment, but he was quickly terminated.

Project Veritas promised more.

This should not be surprising to anybody. This is the network that did nothing when Jalen Rose accused the outspoken liberal Gregg Popovich of racial cowardice when he originally selected Kevin Love for last year’s Olympic men’s basketball team, thus not having an all-black team while “conveniently” forgetting that the 2016 team was … brace yourself … all-black.

ESPN is not a source of sports information. It is a service that serves none other than itself. It has become, yet again, a refuge for those who practice the same racism that it claims to be against.