ESPN has a new morning co-host for SportsCenter, and guess what she would like to talk about? Sports, what a concept.
Sage Steele recently told the New York Post that the network has deviated from its original intention and has become a political voice when it needs to focus on what it should, “on highlights and analysis.” She said:
“I truly believe, for me, there is a time and place. For the most part, I think we leave that to the news networks. When there is an obvious crossover, like Colin Kaepernick, that is a different situation, and we will have in-depth discussions beforehand to talk about the proper way to handle it.
“But I think it’s a very fine line, like I do believe that people come to us for their sports. Not everybody agrees with me on that, not everybody I work with agrees with me. That’s my personal opinion, that that’s where we go to escape.”
Steele proudly claims to be an “Army brat” of a father who “was the first black player on West Point’s football team,” according to The Post. She has also been vocal on Twitter against the national anthem protests by NFL players and even those who protested President Trump’s Muslim travel ban, which caused her to miss her flight out of LAX.
“I do not look forward to discussing [Kaepernick] on SportsCenter, I really don’t,” Steele said in a Washington Post interview.
She continues to emphasize that she will be handling things a “bit differently” from her chair at the sports desk.
“People don’t watch SportsCenter to hear about Charlottesville,” Steele added.
And for that, Steele is criticized by her co-workers, like ESPN radio’s Dan Le Batard, and is frequently called a “coon” online by other blacks who also mock her white husband for “brainwashing” her. They call her a “bed wench,” which the Urban Dictionary defines as: “Typically, a term applied to females of African descent… who gives herself to white men of high status sexually in exchange for privileges, promotions, etc. at the expense of turning her back on the people in her community.”
That’s because she wants to talk about sports on a sports network. Feel the tolerance.
H/T Mediaite
