When ESPN slapped Jemele Hill’s wrist after she called Republican President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” during a Twitter tirade Monday, it wasn’t the first time the network took issue with the outspoken anchor.
ESPN suspended Hill in 2008 after she invoked Adolf Hitler in a column about the Boston Celtics.
“Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim,” Hill wrote, although the offending text was later deleted from the piece. “It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.”
In her apology piece about her Hitler quip, Hill acknowledged that she isn’t above making wrong turns when it comes to racial issues:
Read more at TheBlaze.
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