ESPN Is Parting Ways With Race-Baiting Tool Jemele Hill

It’s about time, ESPN.

Remember Jemele Hill? She’s the ESPN personality who called Trump a white supremacist…

Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.

— 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

… and accused him of “racial pornography.”

ESPN ended up suspending her for two weeks.

“Jemele Hill has been suspended for two weeks for a second violation of our social media guidelines,” ESPN said in a statement at the time. “She previously acknowledged letting her colleagues and company down with an impulsive tweet. In the aftermath, all employees were reminded of how individual tweets may reflect negatively on ESPN and that such actions would have consequences. Hence this decision.”

She eventually admitted that she deserved her suspension.

She was kinda sorta demoted after that but remained working for the network.

Those days are almost officially over. ESPN is cutting the cord.

Coming 9/1 an amicable departure / buyout for @jemelehill from @espn Been a long time coming #JemeleHill #ESPN

— jamesmiller (@JimMiller) August 26, 2018

ESPN wants out of politics. Jemele Hill wants in. A divorce was inevitable. https://t.co/VX34rB7qTn via @nypostsports

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) August 26, 2018

A buyout of her reported $2.5 million per year contract has been completed and her last day will be Friday, according to sources.

On Saturday night, the author James Miller, who wrote a book about ESPN, first tweeted the news of the breakup, calling it “amicable.” The timing, on a Saturday evening, was fortunate for Hill and ESPN in an attempt to lessen the news coverage of what had been a huge national story, both in politics and in sports. There had been rumblings last week of buyout talks between the two sides.

It sounds like ESPN is getting rid of Hill because she’s a political troublemaker, and ESPN’s president Jimmy Pitaro wants the network to have a new, less politically divisive image.

Pitaro has made it clear ESPN is a sports network and does not want to be associated with politics, so he agreed to a buyout with Hill, according to sources. ESPN had no use for Hill on any of its programs after her ill-fated 6 p.m. “SportsCenter” with her former partner, Michael Smith, failed to deliver ratings. She first left Smith behind by quitting the show before the executive in charge of the program, Norby Williamson, had a chance to replace her. She would have been removed.

Is this a sign ESPN is getting serious about staying out of politics?

h/t NY Post