But he pronounces it “Lobert Ree”
ESPN pulled a sports announcer, of Asian decent, from a broadcast because his name is Robert Lee.
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August 24th, 2017 at 7:54 pm
A Southern Asian doing football play-by-play, eh?
“Lahk Ah wuz tellin’ mah cahzen, Stonewall Chang, thuh othuh day, iffen ya’ll wuz to divad thuh coefficient of friction of thuh tawf with thuh cawsun of Ahnstahn’s fawmula e=mc2 whar c is thuh coluh of thah playuh’s jawhsey ….”
August 24th, 2017 at 9:51 pm
All those years Tom Jackson was an announcer on ESPN and I didn’t know I was supposed to be outraged because his name was the same as Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
I feel so robbed. I want to go back in time and be offended. Or something.
August 25th, 2017 at 10:03 am
@Zendo Deb: ESPN.com has a number of vids and articles about Tom Jackson. They even congratulate him for an award – lifetime achievement, at that.
I think a few calls, emails and tweets calling out ESPN for their insensitivity might be in order. Like Mr. Lee, Mr. Jackson is not actually white – but that doesn’t matter. Because triggered.
Enough. ESPN must remove these insensitive accolades of Mr. Jackson, and all those archived articles and videos of someone with such an odious name.
August 25th, 2017 at 5:14 pm
We’ll have to outlaw the word “south” and strike it from all the compasses and maps, because it could “trigger” some idiot criminal somewhere.
And so it is that the inmates rule the asylum; anyone who freaks out due to insanity, or pretends to freak out as part of an ulterior motive, must be accommodated and coddled. The strong must be ruled by the weak, the productive must be ruled by the non-productive, the rational by the irrational, the learned by the ignorant, the capable by the incapable, the motivated by the lazy and the intelligent by the stupid.
All that need take place for the losers in life to put you off your work and have your undivided attention is for them to complain incessantly, and accuse, malign, impugn, pretend and demand. Now they have you. If you comply, they control you. If you rebel, they control you, and your life is not your own. Of course there is a way out of that cycle.
Of course the answer is that no one should be ruled by anyone;
“The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those that exercise authority are called benefactors. Ye shall not be so…” — Jesus of Nazareth
August 25th, 2017 at 7:04 pm
“Lobert Ree”
I’m triggered here. Send me some money!!!
(Swag would be okay also).
August 25th, 2017 at 9:05 pm
ESPN….devolution into absurdity.
LKP, “triggered” should be banned because it derives from guns….”gun violence”… STOP!!!
August 29th, 2017 at 11:31 pm
Lame title. Really!?