When a black person is talking you have to shut-up, listen, and take everything they say seriously.
Failure to keep your opinions to yourself can and will cost you your job. Apologizing and groveling will not save your career.
Lie down with dogs....
Saying they were “venting” is grounds to be shut up and fired?
Here’s a Russian joke from the Brezhnev era. I’ve told it here before, but evidently Dave LaMont missed it the first time around.
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on farm collectivization?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: What is your opinion on the steel production goals?
Soviet citizen: I agree with the policy of the party.
Foreign reporter: Don’t you have any opinions of your own?
Soviet citizen: Yes. But I don’t agree with them.
GTH ESPN.
No sympathy for this snowflake. First sign to look for...do they apologize for saying what they actually think.
If they do...they’re not worth the effort.
I’m so upset that some millionaire might lose his media job on one network and have to have his agent find him a job on another network.
Give me a f’in break.
They need to put some good old Italian Americans born in the 50’s and 60’s on TV, turn off the censor rules, and let these leftist idiots be dealt with.
I long ago decided these people are so out of line that civil and intellectual debate with them is an imposition.
They need to be told to get the F out of your face. Really, do they deserve anything else?
This is the “conversation” they want, where you get fired for thinking? And the only one standing up proud on his two legs like a man is our president.
News flash for these jerks: Sports shouldn’t have a damn thing to do with this marxist racial nonsense.
He should go on offensive, if all is lost. “If I get fired for my opinion, it proves there is NO systemic racism. If there were she would be fired.”
Just about the 9,346,217th lesson in why it is great to be a free agent - self-employed professional with no HR department, no diversity training, no kow-towing to groups like BLM. Do not know this Lamont fellow, but ESPN is imploding from lack of revenue - he might have been about to lose his position anyway.
The ridiculous level of sensitivity engendered by race issues leads non-blacks to withhold comment on these issues for obvious reasons. Not sure how much credibility blacks place in the opinion and observations of non-blacks, but it couldn’t hurt to listen to more perspectives.
This is like discussing Chicago crime statistics during a conference call in my office about a railroad bridge design project in a Rocky Mountain state. Who gives a sh!t about it?
I've never heard of Dave LaMont, never heard of Maria Taylor (is she related to Lawrence Taylor?), and I haven't watched ESPN in years.
This sounds like a pretty weak ‘hot mike’ incident.
Glad I have a nurse job I guess. No one here gives a crap about all this were just doing our jabs working in a diverse group, as always, since the 1980s and before, and with diverse customers
So much silliness out there.
Stephen A and Max Kellerman discussing race is a hoot!
White Privilege, my ass.....it’s ALL BLACK PRIVILEGE!
He apologized, he’s done. He would have been done if he hadn’t apologize but at least he’d have his dignity and self respect and wouldn’t be seen as spineless, groveling useful idiot.
Grown men (many now tattooed & pierced thugs), getting dirty rich for playing with a ball with other rich, grown men, and other men and women getting rich for talking about the rich, grown men that play with balls...pro sports.
And how many American men know more about pro sports than about their childrens’ schools or neighbors or county government?
And I pay more for beer and pizza because they pay a lot to advertise on pro sports shows.
He has hidden it well (to avoid attacks on Twitter and Wokebook), but I looked at his Twitter timeline and someone called him out on it.
Looks like the SJW/Woke alligator is gonna eat him first after all...
In march I was almost fired for sending an email to the team, sharing the link to “Worldometers.org”.
My sin: I titled it “Good ChinaVirus info source”.
I almost retired in January but decided to work for another year or so to get my house paid off. Meanwhile this working from home thing is awesome to be working from home. It saves me 3 hours a day and about $600 after tax dollars a month in gas and parking, not to mention car maintenance and wear and tear.
So I may stay at it until WFH stops or they let me go (I’m a contractor) whichever comes first. Getting three hours a day and $600 after tax is like getting a raise and only working part time. I can do that a LONG time.
And being able to work from anywhere is a big bonus. I worked for three weeks from Seattle when visiting when my father died. That would have been even more painful if I had to take the time off for work.