Jemele Hill and the Juice
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by Seanmcsean
I must be a masochist......
Every time I navigate to ESPN's sub-par Page2, I am greeted with a substantial letdown. These days even the Sports Guy is letting his lunatic hormonally charged pregnant wife rant weekly in his column about newsworthy items she sees on the E! network. I'm sorry, Bill, but you should be kicked off of ESPN altogether for even suggesting that your wife have a space to express her hatred of Lindsay Lohan. Perhaps if they hook Page3 up to the defibrillator, their people can call your people.
Most troubling is that sometimes I can't help dragging my cursor over the latest Jemele Hill sob story. She had me hooked this time. I couldn't wait to see what she said about OJ. I saw the slow moving train coming down the tracks, and I didn't even bother to move out of the way. The freight train hit me, and I was greeted with a contradictory thematically flawed article that chronicles her struggle with her views on OJ Simpson. Hill attempts (poorly) to "sniff out" the case building against Simpson. For the record, she makes a bad journalist, and a worse lawyer.
To condense my rant, I have isolated my favorite quotes from the article, commenting on each.
Too bad Dave Chappelle is probably somewhere communing with elk in Sri Lanka, because O.J. has provided enough material to fuel a fourth season of "Chappelle's Show."
- A desperate and embarassing ploy to be funny. Funny she selects Dave Chapelle, a black celebrity. I'm sure Mencia is chomping at the bit to make a sketch about this.
Realize this is the same police department that still can't find out who murdered Tupac, WHO WAS KILLED RIGHT OFF THE STRIP.
- Different crime, different era, but yet another black celebrity. See a trend here?
- Did you ever stop to consider how many crimes actually take place in Las Vegas? How would you feel if a family member of yours was murdered but you weren't famous enough to have the case get the full attention of the Las Vegas police?
People are locking in on this incident because it's supposedly our chance to get it right. African-Americans realize that supporting O.J. isn't all it's cracked up to be. White folks want a chance to say, "See, I told you so." I just hope we know that revenge does not equal justice.
- There isn't a single thread of revenge in this. If anything, it is more along the law of averages. Simpson has tried the American justice system several times. You can throw manure against a wall all you want, but at some point it is going to stick. Innocent verdicts aside, you have to wonder why he finds himself on the wrong side of the law so often? If he were such a quality individual, he wouldn't get arrested so often. No criminal record? See below, Isn't an arrest part of a criminal record? Try again Jemele.
- People hate to acknowledge this, and I hate to say it, but we have to remember: O.J. doesn't have a criminal record. He's been accused of everything from road rage to stealing cable. No matter what we think he did or didn't do, his slate remains legally clean.
- Justice would be served if you started collecting unemployment after your dismissal from ESPN.
ESPN, you continue to disappoint me. You filled a void created by Ralph Wiley and Jason Whitlock with a cookie cutter "play the race card" sensational journalist. Where is your ombudsman when you need her? And just to think, this is 24 hours after they gave Stephen A. Smith a full hour a day after Mike Tirico on ESPN radio as a way to replace Dan Patrick.
