Via Larry Brown Sports:
Rob Parker’s comments questioning Robert Griffin III’s blackness have finally cost him his job. ESPN announced on Tuesday that they would be firing the “First Take” host.
Here’s the company’s statement on the matter:
“Rob Parker’s contract expired at year’s end. Evaluating our needs and his work, including his recent RGIII comments, we decided not to renew his deal.”
Parker said on “First Take” Dec. 13 that he wasn’t sure what kind of brother Griffin was. He questioned the quarterback’s blackness, and the episode re-aired throughout the day on ESPN without that part being edited out of the show. As the backlash picked up throughout the day, ESPN finally addressed the comments by calling them “inappropriate.”
ESPN suspended Parker and at least one producer from the show, and then announced Tuesday they decided not to bring back Parker.
In his first extended comments since being suspended, Parker expressed very little remorse for his Griffin remarks. Parker blamed others for his RG3 comments, and then he said the public took his comments out of context. Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand says ESPN made the decision to fire Parker before the host’s interview with Click on Detroit.
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January 09, 2013
Wake up, bud. Chill. Read some more.
Anyway, enough with the race BS. He was fired because he said something incredibly stupid. It happens all the time regardless of race.
{{{RGIII is NOBODY!!! SO is Rob Parker! If RGIII does something wrong to his white girlfriend/wife (ie OJ, Tiger ,and others) you all will consider his race and "preferences" in women too.}}}
Also, black females don't pay the most taxes within the black race. Black males make more collectively than black females.
I have the right to ask since I am a black woman.
You sound ignorant as all outdoors.
Smith only showed that he was "down with the struggle" by saying N***A Please
yes i know he said he didnt say it and it was only because he "talks fastly"...but i listen fastly and yeah, thats what he said
Thank YOU for saying it out loud and telling it like it is.
{{{RGIII is NOBODY!!! SO is Rob Parker! If RGIII does something wrong to his white girlfriend/wife (ie OJ, Tiger ,and others) you all will consider his race and "preferences" in women too.}}}
Way to justify your racism.
BY the way, when was the last time anybody heard from Al or Jesse? You whites talk about them like they are having press conferences everyday. They haven't said a thing in nearly a YEAR! Except Al Sharpton supported gay marriage.
He has his own type of racial hang- ups. Similar to Quincy Jones. Portier's book has about as much usefulness and Earl Woods (Tigers father) book or Bill Cosby's....or THE BOOK OF VIRTUES or Newt Gingrichs writings on morality and values and work ethic.
Its a lot a smoke and righteous talk from men who are hypocrits and live a life or lifestyle that was or is part of the problem.
When Vanessa Williams became the 1st black Miss America, it was not because she was talented and beautiful. SHE WAS! But there had been many other black women just as talented who didn't even make the finals. Vanessa was blond and blue (greeny) eyed! She was given the titled for that reason....she was the whitest black there was. In fact history has proven that whites have NEVER elected a dark skinned black as the first anything!
THAT WAS THE REASON FOR THE OBAMA DEBATE! Were whites really opening up racially or were they eager to play the old game of putting the black in with the whites skin or the white parentage.
If you are watching or listening or defending or attacking RGIII, Rob Parker, Samual L Jackson, Al Sharpton, Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitiers, Jessie Jackson, Tiger Woods, Michael JOrdan, Clarence Thomas or "all the blacks with their pants hanging down around their butts"........then YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!
If Rob Parker was making a blanket statement that "if you date white....you are not black"- that is WRONG!
But after OJ and so many others (including Michael Jackson) why are whites acting like there is NO HISTORY of black males with money or power "status dating" or "trophy marrying"- its not right that their status and trophey's are color coded.Even P. Diddy openly casted for only light skinned female models. Its a real issue.
and the First Take guys are a buncha loudmouths. fire them all
Where did this come from anyway? if he's up set about him not having another real brother maybe it's time for him to go out and start making more friends.
He can't call this firing a racist situation, he's wasn't there to discuss any issue about black versus white, I think he had a fart for brains moment..
Unfortunately, he was still looking for acceptance, because he still has an identity crisis.
Parker’s statement that RG3, or any other Black entertainer or athlete, has “pushed away from his people” is straight out ignorant and racist. He is speaking as if all Black people have to follow these certain rules and laws and limitations to be “Black”.
Parker is a big idiot who obviously didn’t learn from his first mistake. ESPN did the right thing by firing him. Any television personality, no matter what race, should be fired for those type of empty-headed comments.
Looks like he is just going to be hated by most liberals and a certain segment of the minority population due to either not fitting the mold or plain old jealousy.
This guy should have been fired because he is not only an idiot he is the worst kind of racist. A jealous one.
Note: Where the mind goes, the person follows. This man is now following his mouth out the door!
-No wonder you only see the world as white.
Imagine if a white announcer had said he questioned a white player's whiteness? It's totally ridiculous and has no place on a mainstream television station.
Parker's comments about RG111 were defamatory, malicious, and highly charged with ridicule,disrespect, and scornful venom.
The only thing he didn't call him was an uncle-tom.
As an African American, myself, I find his comments distasteful and reprehensible.
Both Stephen A. Smith and ESPN showed a lot of class in this matter.
Smith & Bayless