Posted on 07/06/2021 2:15:42 PM PDT by knighthawk
ESPN has pulled Rachel Nichols off of her sideline reporting gig for the NBA Finals ahead of tonight's series opener after the revelation of a 2020 bombshell video in which she suggested African-American colleague Maria Taylor was given a particular studio assignment to promote diversity.
The conversation, revealed on Sunday by The New York Times, was recorded by an unknown party during the 2020 NBA season restart at the league’s bubble in Florida when Nichols was apparently unaware a camera in her hotel room was still attached to a live microphone following a satellite broadcast.
Nichols will continue to host her show, The Jump, but will be replaced by Malika Andrews on the sidelines. Game 1 of the NBA Finals will air on ABC tonight from Phoenix, where the Western Conference-champion Suns will host the Eastern Conference winners, the Milwaukee Bucks. (Both ESPN and ABC are owned by The Walt Disney Company)
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Well, since most of the audience is black, it kinda makes sense.
She should know better than to tell the truth.
Welcome to the party, pal.
Maria Taylor actually knows the game. Question should be, How did Rachel Nichols ever get her job at ESPN?
So many big networks no longer believe in second chances or extra training. Years ago, when I managed a Care Home, I could not just fire somebody because they screwed up one time. I was forced by regulation to first give them a write up, then a face to face counseling with probation, re-training was ‘offered’, meaning they had to do it.
Then, if they were still screwing up, I could finally give them The Chop!
Who cares what ESPN does anymore? They are a waste of time and effort.
So first a black reporterette gets the job she wants, and then a black woman get the sideline job she has. She might want to start working on her tan, and maybe get a weave or cornrows... Or start working on her resume.
“Graduate” director Mike Nichols’ daughter-in-law...
Rachel gets her gig because she’s a girl and now she wants to deny some other getting it because she’s black. Karma, man...
What did they ax her?
In her defense she thought her virtue signaling account had enough credit to save her from the woke leftist mob.
White leftists do not understand that they are cementing their own second class citizenship brick-by-virtue-signaling-brick.
Rats eating other rats.
Doesn’t bother me at all.
They also just cancelled her afternoon show the jump about an hour ago…she is gone and will probably sit out whatever is left in her contract at home and to think she was a major “woke” lefty reap what you sow Rachel
What’s the point of sideline reporters again?
But it’s O.K. for the chicago mayor to say she won’t allow anyone but black journalists to interview her? Really - that’s O.K. to say? Racism is alive and well in America.
Now observing what is true out loud is a crime.
love it when they eat their own!!
“What’s the point of sideline reporters again?”
Mostly eye candy; at least that’s true in the SEC Network.
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