Ive got to assume that heaven has a flag football team but I have no idea how much they value linebackers, so there’s no way of confirming or denying
Did ESPN get rid of AM sportscenter? I don't watch nonsports programming on ESPN but I went to throw it on just for my toddler to see some sports highlights and there wasn't sportscenter on any ESPN channel.
I flipped to ESPN twice yesterday during the day. On two different shows this topic was being discussed heatedly. I immediately when back to music.
The story is fine, but the click bait headline is so weird. Who cares about Michael Jordan removing his cell phone contacts?
I don’t think she necessarily said anything bad. I understand her frustration as she has been in the NBA game awhile and wanted that while Maria just got into it.
As a white man, it’s tough for me to understand the anger towards Nichols. It sounds like standard office politics when millions of dollars are at stake. ESPN has a poor history with women and it seems odd to promote someone above her into a job she is contractually obligated. I view her and Suzy Kolber in the same position - women that have done a great job rising through the ranks of ESPN and are now able to host major shows. I would be very frustrated if I was clearly the incumbent candidate with a great resume and was replaced for reasons I believe were outside of my control. That said, I don’t pay enough attention to ESPN to notice any insider lingo that suggests something more nefarious.
Rachel isn’t mad that a black woman took her job, she is upset at ESPN that someone took what should be her job and even calls them out for being bad at diversity.
Ha. Nowhere in the article or the quote does Rachel say that she's uncovered some scheme by ESPN higher ups to give jobs to black people that they didn't otherwise earn; Rachel is merely saying that Maria got the job because she was black.
Simple question - does Rachel believe that Maria got the job because she's black and didn't actually earn it?
I’m not going to go back and forth with you. You will stick with your opinion and I’ll stick with mine.
For those of you that seem to be struggling with why this is THAT bad here is a thought experiment for you: Imagine someone had said that Nichols only got her job at the jump because she was Jewish or she only got the job because shes a woman and ESPN was trying to fill a woman quota. How do you think Nichols would feel about the person who made said statements?
The fuck? Her reaction wasn't "Well damn, she may be doing better than me. I need to up my game." It was "She's only getting that bc she's black." That's not ok.
Yes. Maybe they think she's better? Or brings in a bigger or more diverse audience? There's lots of reasons why they'd want her other than "She's black." Rachel should get paid per her contract though.
Maybe she’s better but I can see why Nichols - who was given a ton of airtime by ESPN to cover the NBA - would not share that perception You know there are a lot of reasons why she would vent instead of going to a lawsuit. Assuming her contract doesn’t have some binding arbitration clause, assuming they paid her, I don’t know how she would be able to show anything other than speculative damages mid-contract. And of course, the worry that bringing a lawsuit about ESPN giving a job promised to her by contract to a black woman would just bring on perceptions and/or allegations of racism and limit her further employment opportunities to Fox.
It's OK for Nichols to feel like she's better. It's OK to think they are making a mistake. It's not OK to go the route of the persecuted white woman.
im kind of astonished people are missing this, its one of the most commonly parroted tropes among racially aggrieved people
Put another way - if ESPN wasn’t institutionally racist, maybe (probably? idk) Maria Taylor gets the job in her contract and Rachel Nichols is never anything more than a correspondent/secondary host. But ESPN - which is also institutionally sexist - did give that job to Nichols. Having never read other allegations of racism or shiftiness about Nichols (and assuming she’s accurately describing the hosting gig as contractually obligated to her), I tend to agree with her point that ESPN should have figured out a better way to be less shitty to black women than by taking Nichols’ job.
Being upset at being passed over is understandable, but going to “it’s because she’s black” is racist. My point is that the above has a whole SHITLOAD of assumptions, none of which came true. If we’re assuming, is there any room for an assumption that Nichols wasn’t actually contractually guaranteed that show under any circumstances and that she actually was just wrong on all of it and playing the aggrieved white person card?
Dude, you are having to make some wild ass assumptions to justify this point. The truth is almost certainly that ESPN and Nichols are racist to various degrees.