ESPN is at rock bottom...

[poindexter]

And finds a way to go lower.

Someone named Rob Parker questions RG3's blackness:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2012/12/13/rob-parker-on-rgiiis-blackness/

 

[JC]

Drip will fill you in on Parker

 

[poindexter]

These dopey talk shows seem to be a chink in ESPN's credibility armor.

 

[Steak Snabler]

When Stephen A. Smith is the voice of reason on a race-related topic, you know you've gone off the reservation.

 

[printit]

Just beyond awful

 

[qtlaw]

What's sad is when it started with Chris Berman, and Bob Ley and the game, they were solidly about sports and I loved it.

With the NFL, MLB, Golf, Tennis and NBA networks, Sportscenter is no longer essential sports watching TV.

Hope they start paying attention and get back to their roots.

 

[Dick Whitman]

What's sad is when it started with Chris Berman, and Bob Ley and the game, they were solidly about sports and I loved it.

???

 

[Norrin Radd]

The E has never stood for "Journalism."

But today it stands for Imbecilic.

 

[mustangj17]

So basically, RG3 is not black enough so Rob Parker doesn't want to hang out with him? Could you imagine if a white analyst discussed not wanting to hang out with a white NBA player because he hangs out with black people and votes democrat. Yikes.

 

[Beaker]

Just dumb.

 

[Beaker]

Also, while they're not ESPN employees, Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin were suspended by ESPN 980 for their downright idiotic statements about a transgender athlete:

http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2012-articles/december/dc-radio-hosts-suspended-over-rant-against-transgender-athlete.html

 

[Drip]

Rob ****ed up. That's pretty much all that needs to be said. He's not a racist. He just made a stupid statement that is going to be hard to live down.

 

[Armchair_QB]

So Rob Parker called RGIII an Uncle Tom?

And he still has a job?

 

[I Should Coco]

I thought this would be about ESPN showing high school basketball games all night ...

Seriously, we've all seen "First Take" (unfortunately) and should not be surprised this idiotic statement about RGIII originated there.

 

[Beaker]

Not at all. As someone pointed out, when Stephen A. Smith is the sane one...

 

[Drip]

When Stephen A. Smith is the voice of reason on a race-related topic, you know you've gone off the reservation.

Steak hit this one directly. SAS sounds like a genius. Rob? Well, this is one time my old friend should've just STFU.

 

[Armchair_QB]

So I guess Rob won't be until Griffin gets busted for running a dog-fighting ring?

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Because RG3 has united Chocolate City in a way I haven't seen for decades, and has been raised well by his parents to the point he comes off as nothing but an outstanding, young man, he's not black enough for Rob Parker.

Wow.

 

[Azrael]

I think I understand what Parker was trying to get at here - 'authenticity' is a central question in urban African-American culture - but this wasn't the place to have a nuanced Q and A about it. Bad tactical move, even if his approach to the subject was meant to be sincere.

 

[Stoney]

The few Parker columns I've read all struck me as poorly written crap. The few times I've seen him on this stupid show he always comes across as a nitwit. This is the same guy who called Hank Aaron a "coward" in a column. This is the same guy who falsely reported that Kirk Cousins got into a drunken brawl with Michigan State Hockey players at a time when Cousins was actually attending church with his parents in an entirely different town.

How the **** did this idiot get where he is? Is there some body of redeeming Parker work out there that I've missed?