Jemele Hill Suspended by ESPN

A month after the White House calling for Jemele Hill’s firing, due to her calling President Donald Trump a white supremacist on Twitter, she has now been suspended on Monday for once again “violating” ESPN’s social media policies.

This all came to happen after Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys owner, tweeted this past Sunday after the Cowboys lost, that he would bench any player who “disrespected the flag.” Which prompted Hill to suggest on Twitter that fans who disagreed with Jones’ comment and stance should boycott Cowboy advertisers. According to her “Change happens when advertisers are impacted” and that they should be boycotted, if you don’t agree with Jones’ stance.

Due to Hill’s tweets ESPN decided that a consequence should be pushed and on Monday made a statement. In the statement they said the Jemele Hill was to be suspended for two weeks, for her individual tweets that violated the social media policies for a second time. Monday, Jemele missed her first t.v show and her co-host also missed, saying he wanted sone time to digest the situation. Some may ask where are Jemele’s First Amendment right, which guarantees her freedom of speech, however; this amendment doesn’t save her from her sanction by her private sector employer. ESPN is able to sanction Hill for her actions due to Hill’s employment contract.

The Dallas Cowboys aren’t the only team to have forced their players to stand, as the Miami Dolphins have also came out and said the same thing. Although, Dolphins owner, Stephen M. Ross, said that he changed his stance due to President Trump making the protest about “disrespecting the flag.”

Hill later wrote “Just so we’re clear; I’m not advocating a NFL boycott, but an unfair burden has been put in the players of the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins. As she says she feels as if now the players are put in a rough spot on what to do, because now the players are basically forced to stand so they can play, and now many fans may see them as sell outs.